Did you read only the link title "Christian hell is a hoax" without clicking on it & reading any part of the article? The very first things it says are:
"Exhaustive Verse-by-Verse Examination of the Hell Scriptures"
"Introduction: I Dont Ignore
Any Scriptures"
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BTW, just because i links to an article or website does not indicate i am in 100% agreement with everything it says, even when i quote from one, which i didn't in this case. I suggest, instead, addressing what i have posted on the forum.
I did. You posted a website. Staring me in the face was the first bullet. So, when a guy leads with a lie, which that undoubtedly is--since JESUS HIMSELF SAID THE OPPOSITE, I don't have to read further.
Here's the problem. Whether you or I or anyone else likes it, JESUS came to earth and spoke. When JESUS spoke, the Apostles recorded what JESUS said, whether they liked it or not, as well. JESUS spent time talking about a place called Gehenna while here. JESUS talked about branches of a vine that were once necessarily part of a vine being cut off and burned. JESUS warned that if part of your body was sinning, it was better to cut it off than for your whole body to go to Gehenna. JESUS said other things, too, including giving a glimpse of Hades (not Gehenna, but certainly a place of suffering)and Paradise (Abraham's bosom, which was a place that the rich man desired to be, but couldn't go, according to Abraham, because of a FIXED GULF between the two that prevented either from crossing to the other side).
JESUS, then, came back and gave Revelation to John. in Revelation, a representative for JESUS talked about the Lake of Fire, called it the Second Death, and shared that everyone not written in the LAMB's Book of Life being cast into it with hades, (the first) death, the devil, the beast, and the false prophet.
Furthermore, Jesus says things like this: "Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me." (John 5:28-30)
Things like that certainly seem to support the other things that JESUS said regarding consequences.
I don't need there to be a hell/Gehenna/Lake of Fire. I'm just happy God chose to wake me up. I certainly didn't deserve it. But, if what I believe is not true, JESUS Himself, through His Word, led me to believe it. He didn't have to say a word about the topic, if it wasn't true. And, my Bible says that God is not a man that He should lie. Even when Moses asks to see God's face and God announces HImself, He includes "and will by no means clear the guilty...." (Exodus 34:7) Why would His only begotten Son lie or intentionally deceive me into believing their was going to be a place of punishment if there wasn't? And, if this is all a big mis-translation, then God please forgive me, because of my language and translation deficiencies. But, my focus has always been to be with Him, not to escape hell. I do my best, regardless of whether others are looking or not, to live a life before Him that demonstrates my desire and the focus of my life is to be with Him. When I get to be with Him, I'm not going to make sure there was hell. I am quite sure that I won't care, because it has no bearing on my relationship with God. My focus will be on Him, even moreso than it is now, based on what I read in Scripture. Whether or not others get hell has no bearing on whether or not I love Him. I can accept Him as all that He is, either way, because I understand He is God and I am not. And, frankly, because He is God, whether I accepted Him as He is or not, won't change Him one iota, it only has ramifications for me!
However, if your view is correct, it won't change anything for you. But, if there is a Gehenna/Lake of Fire and if it is the polar opposite to heaven, so you live in one of the two realms forever by your choice. And, if the that "forever" reality is as bad or worse than what the rich man was experiencing in the story Jesus told in Luke 16 (rich man and Lazarus), then think about some of the things you have said about God and called God Himself? If you find out there is such an unending place where people are subject to unending punishment, do you really want to be held accountable for what you have said about Him? And what will you stand on?