Perhaps hell has been misrepresented…
This makes much more sense to me than the modern view of hell. I especially cannot reconcile the God of love with a God who will eternally torment the wicked. Also, I like the point about eternal separation from God vs. Omnipresence. How can you be eternally separated from God, if he is everywhere, without ceasing to exist?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilationist
I have always had a problem with “hell”
I was reading Luke, and came across this:
http://niv.scripturetext.com/luke/12.htm
4“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. 5But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
So I decided to look up hell, I clicked on the greek:
http://biblos.com/luke/12-5.htm
And found that hell is actually Gehenna. So I flipped over to Wikipedia to look up Gehenna, hoping to find an objective opinion, and not one molded to fit whatever mainstream religions teach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna
That is where I came across Annihilationism.
I have a few opinions now.
When you die, your place will be determined by your life, paradise or Hades. You will remain in one of those two places until final judgment. then you will either be destroyed (eternal separation from God which would HAVE to be an end to existence because God is everywhere). Or raised to life in your resurrected and immortal body. I believe that people who have lived a miserable existence and then repent at the last minute would go to Hades, which is the holding place for judgment. I may be wrong about some or all of this, but it is my current belief. And it is also possible that God can allow repentance in Hades, and once they have paid the price for their wickedness, they will be raised at the final Judgment. Those who cannot repent even in Hades, are lost forever and it is just time to let them go. One difference between this belief and the catholic belief in purgatory is that you cannot pay a priest to expedite the process or affect the outcome.
This solves many problems:
1) The problem of a God of love keeping a personal torture dungeon where they suffer for all of eternity.
2) The problem of saved vs unsaved, and keeping salvation vs losing it. You are given all the tools you need to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, if you fail or refuse, there is a price to pay.
3) The problem of why should I deny myself good things if grace just lets me do whatever I want and “repent” on my deathbed. Seriously, even if Hades is a second chance, you do NOT want to go there.
4) The problem of a man living a wicked evil life and “repenting” at the last minute, never having worked out that repentance.
5) It is very just. A soul is given a lifetime to repent, and God gives them every possible chance to find redemption. If they refuse and refuse, it is probably just hopeless. Some people will never serve God, no matter WHAT. They will sit in Hades cursing God the whole time for how evil they claim he is.
Obviously I am just forming this, and still praying for wisdom on the matter. In talks with people hell keeps coming up, and my previous answer is “It honestly does not matter, if you sin you will be punished, if you obey you will be rewarded, so obey” But then I decided to pray for an answer, and I think this is the beginning of my answer.
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