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Originally Posted by SkylightMike231
I'm really interested in the response on to why we deserve hell that is preached in so many churches today. It's one of my largest thoughts on hell.
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Why we 'deserve' hell [biblical hell = common grave of mankind ] is because we sin.
If Adam had never sinned, where would Adam be today ?
According to Scripture there was No death/grave in Eden only Everlasting life on Earth if obedient to God.
Adam was created as a perfectly healthy human with a sound heart,mind and body.
Once Adam broke God's law, then Adam lost his healthy human perfection.
Adam disconnect himself from his source of life.
Kind of like disconnecting a fan from its power source. The unplugged fan slowly winds down until it stops [ dies ].
Adam 'returned' to where Adam started which was the dust of the ground.
Adam started from the dust and Adam 'returned' to the dust.
No life in dust. No life in ashes. Just a state as if one was not conscious.- Ecclesiastes 9 v 5
Since we are Not responsible for what Adam did, God arranged that we could have the opportunity to live even if we sin.
If we could stop sinning we would not die. Because we sin we die [ Romans 6 vs 23, 7 ]
The dead [ except for those committing the unforgivable sin -Matthew 12 v 32; Hebrews 6 vs 4-6 ] go to hell.
Not some unbiblical hell of permanent torture, but to the Bible's temporary hell until resurrected out of hell.
So, it is not so much 'deserving' for what Adam did, but that we can not stop sinning no matter how hard we try.
The dead are buried, so to speak, in the Bible's hell as Jesus went to hell the day he died.- Acts 2 vs 27,31
Jesus taught sleep in death.- John 11 vs 11-14
Revelation 20 vs 13,14 mentions that all in the Bible's hell will be 'delivered up' out of biblical hell.
'Delivered up' as in meaning resurrected out of hell. Then emptied-out hell is cast vacant into a symbolic' second death'
No one is left in the Bible's hell [ gravedom ] when biblical hell is cast empty into ' second death ' for vacated hell.
Why do today's 'churches' [ churches of Christendom ] teach a non-biblical religious-myth hell is because of tradition not Scripture. Non-biblical teachings became mixed with Scripture, and the clergy ignore Scripture in favor of tradition outside of Scripture but teach it as Scripture. That does not make Scripture as wrong, but makes clergy teachings as wrong.
Why teach a false permanent burning forever religious-myth hell is apparently because they want it that way ?
They apparently think the flock enjoys or wants to hear their enemies will be roasted in pain forever.
The flock apparently wants to have teachers to 'tickle their ears', so to speak, as to say what they want to hear.
- 2nd Timothy 4 v 3 mentions that the time will come [ it's here ] when they will Not endure sound doctrine, but after their own desires, they will have teachers for themselves in order to have their ' ears tickled ' [ itching ears to hear spoken what they want to hear ]. After all, isn't it the flock who pays the preachers salary ? He wouldn't want to loose his salary, so why not preach what the flock wants to hear ?
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