The best explanation of "HELL" that I've found

:xyzthumbs True enough.



Still, this was intended as an attempt to explain something, not as a discussion starter. I often post things knowing that the discussion will be fun and enlightning. In this case, I was simply trying to show what I see is the best explanation of hell I've ever seen.

 

Too bad you didn't give any credit to where you found it.

 

www.amazingfacts.org

 

Thanks, I wanted to see if there were any more interesting items wherever you found it.

 

Disagree on the former, but agree on the latter. Jesus told the thief on the cross next to him, "Today you will be with Me in Paradise." Later, in Revelation, Jesus told John that the dead would be judged after the believers had been taken first. He also said the saved would receive new bodies as part of the new heaven on earth that would be created after the final battle is won. Those two passages lead me to believe that believers will be taken up with Him to remain in heaven until Judgment Day. Non-believers, however, do not. There is no mention of anything happening to non-believers until Judgment Day itself.

 

Disagree completely with the exposition of Mark 9:43. The central message Jesus was conveying was "Don't let your flesh override your spirit, and by doing so keep you out of heaven." The flesh is something every Christian must battle the whole of their life here on earth. If we continually give into it, the flesh will keep us separated from God.

Are we really to believe that our imperfect bodies and corrupted flesh will be welcome through the gates of heaven? I seriously doubt it.

 

This, I agree with.

 

Yes, but "good" doesn't necessarily equate to Christians. There are some good who will be saved through judgment (Romans 2). These are the "good" that Jesus is referring to here.

 

And by Mosaic Law, Ezekiel was correct. But through Jesus, the sinners are saved. Christians are separated from those who will be judged by the Law.

 

Now the author is backpedaling. Just a few paragraphs earlier, he described the soul as being "imaginary".