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Let's Talk About Hell (7)

strangertoo

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Gnosis. Without it, all you have is your own interpretation.

rather spirit baptism is the Truth of God from God , pure as one can take it, and is different from what many Gnostics call gnosis...

also there is division in Gnosticism, it is not one scheme ,but many , which shows by that fact alone that it is not spirit baptism...
 
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I made a few posts here, this will be my last.

I try to pray on the many things I post. Sometimes I have to go back and correct myself, because I am fallible. I have no interest in where the devil and his angels, or wickedness goes in the end. To me it is a waste of my precious prayer time seeking knowledge of such things. As Jesus said "let the dead bury their dead", then let the those "bent on hell, find knowledge about hell".

Not me.
 
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Be not dismayed brother.

Hades the place of departed spirits, and Gehenna the place of fire and distruction, by the same word 'hell' and thus confusing two ideas wholly distinct.
In such a passage as Acts ii. 27, 31 the misconception thus created is very serious. Is it possible even now to naturalise the word Hades and give it a place in our Version ? Or must we be satisfied with pointing out in the margin in each case whether the word 'hell' represents Hades or Gehenna?

Act 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

The birds coming and devouring the seed sown by the way side are interpreted to mean ερχεται ο πονηρος και αρπαζει το εσπαρμενον

Mat 13:19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

Mar 4:4 And it came to pass as he sowed, one fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured it.
Parkhurst, A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament
 
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You are correct.
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen

Close you eyes and ears with the many if you will, it makes no odds... Jesus has said how this earth will end, the great tribulation of the wrath of God after the day of the Lord ... and how you failed to read this in scripture is a mystery, but until you do how can you hope to represent scripture ?


Matthew 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows...
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
 
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