Originally posted by cking
what about the rich man and Lazarus. explain that. they don't have to back then if they did what was right at first they would never think of hell again. the new testament is a fulfilment of the old and it gives alot more detail of what things are like than the old.
The rich man and lazarus was a story illustration...Do you really think hell is like that????
Originally posted by cking
the gospels I think said that Satan was in a pit like in a cone of a volcano and it was underground. .
A cone???? No...tell me you don't believe this....A cone underground somewhere? If anything, if it was real it would be on another planet.
Besides answer this...If god creates a new heaven and a new earth, AND ALL OLD THINGS PASS AWAY..how could there be a punishing...that would be an old thing left over...
it doesn't exist anymore. Satan will not exist. read in revelations in chapter 20. I have read some articles about hades and they said it is suppose to be like the secondary hell to the lake of fire. and it says hades will give up its dead. death and hades were thrown in the lake of fire. that is the second death. anyone who's name wasn't found in the book of life was thrown in there. and read the next chapter about the new creation. hades was the prison of the watchers and they will await judgement of the great white throne.
Originally posted by debbiejo
There's not a hell...in the OT it was always called the grave...in the NT, Gehenna was a local location there....Even today the Jews don't believe in a hell, and they know the OT better than anyone.