Greetings Happyuser & the Saints here , with the pro " HELL " comments I felt it my duty to flip the coin over . To allow you to understand my reasoning , I must add I see the main-stream devil / satan as AKA plain old sinful human nature . I chose NOT to cop-out to an evil influence whispering rebellion in a welcoming ear . Scripture tells me man & woman are corrupt to their core . That's proof enough .
Hell according to Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words , is . <1,,1067,geenna>
represents the Hebrew Ge-Hinnom (the valley of Tophet) and a corresponding Aramaic word; it is found twelve times in the NT, eleven of which are in the Synoptists, in every instance as uttered by the Lord Himself. He who says to his brother, Thou fool (see under FOOL), will be in danger of "the hell of fire," Matt. 5:22 ....... To the passage in Matt. 18, that in Mark 9:43-47, is parallel; here to the word "hell" are applied the extended descriptions "the unquenchable fire" and "where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.".... Notes: (1) For the rendering "hell" as a translation of hades, corresponding to Sheol, wrongly rendered "the grave" and "hell," see HADES. (2) The verb tartaroo, translated "cast down to hell" in 2 Pet. 2:4, signifies to consign to Tartarus, which is neither Sheol nor hades nor hell, but the place where those angels whose special sin is referred to in that passage are confined "to be reserved unto judgment;" the region is described as "pits of darkness," RV.
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My perception of death in hell , in my mind is much more sinister than the posters before me , could bear . Their thinking is burning for ever & ever , like a life sentence in our prison system , Subconsciously harboring a hope of a commuted sentence . 'GOD' is love after all !
Here is what I perceive death in " hell " is , For the goats the seals will be opened ( each in there own time ) and the scrolls will be read , in audience of every human long dead , living now and the not yet born to flesh . Will witness every transgression the judge seen him or her do before a word of creation was spoken . Then in a nanosecond in the twinkling of a eye , the goat will experience what the sheep will experience for ever & ever . The Love Of ABBA YAH , face to face . Here is where the gnashing and grinding of teeth come in , Then the flame that burns forever and is ready to torch ( incinerate each goat , in their own time ) one at a time . How long the memory and intensity will wane , I don't know . But I know for me without my Elohim , a nanosecond would more than I could handle .
So then , I fear the incinerator not because it's going to turn me to ash . It's going to deprive me of My Elohim ABBA YAHweh and His first born YAHshua , alive in love forever & ever .
Peace .
