How To Get To Heaven When You Die

[billjones42 10+ year member]

Nope. God's weed is good, but nothing like I got from David Crosby. He's got the shizznit.

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

Link to a guy who says he went to hell and back.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864&hl=en

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

Debate Evolution/verses Creationism

http://www.evolutionfairytale.com/forum/index.php?showforum=20

 

[Pootie 10+ year member]

Please stop posting were all going to hell you can't save us actually because of your posting trying to scare us into believe religion is causing us to venture futher away. So in actuality the fact that were now going to hell rest on your shoulders and is ultimately your fault.

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

Please take the time to read this first post and pray that prayer to God at the bottom of it if you haven't yet.

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

Please stop posting were all going to hell you can't save us actually because of your posting trying to scare us into believe religion is causing us to venture futher away. So in actuality the fact that were now going to hell rest on your shoulders and is ultimately your fault.

It's a sad reality. Jesus talked about hell more than He did heaven. It's dangerous. It's the reason came to DIE so that He could save us from it.

EASTON'S BIBLE DICTIONARY:

Hell

derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place. In Scripture there are three words so rendered:

(1.) Sheol, occurring in the Old Testament sixty-five times. This word sheol is derived from a root-word meaning "to ask," "demand;" hence insatiableness (Pr 30:15,16). It is rendered "grave" thirty-one times (Ge 37:35; 42:38; 44:29,31; 1Sa 2:6, etc.). The Revisers have retained this rendering in the historical books with the original word in the margin, while in the poetical books they have reversed this rule.

In thirty-one cases in the Authorized Version this word is rendered "hell," the place of disembodied spirits. The inhabitants of sheol are "the congregation of the dead" (Pr 21:16). It is (a) the abode of the wicked (Nu 16:33; Job 24:19; Ps 9:17; 31:17, etc.); (b) of the good (Ps 16:10; 30:3; 49:15; 86:13, etc.).

Sheol is described as deep (Job 11:8), dark (Job 10:21,22), with bars (Job 17:16). The dead "go down" to it (Nu 16:30,33; Eze 31:15,16,17).

(2.) The Greek word hades of the New Testament has the same scope of signification as sheol of the Old Testament. It is a prison (1Pe 3:19), with gates and bars and locks (Mt 16:18; Re 1:18), and it is downward (Mt 11:23; Lu 10:15).

The righteous and the wicked are separated. The blessed dead are in that part of hades called paradise (Lu 23:43). They are also said to be in Abraham's bosom (Lu 16:22).

(3.) Gehenna, in most of its occurrences in the Greek New Testament, designates the place of the lost (Mt 23:33). The fearful nature of their condition there is described in various figurative expressions (Mt 8:12; 13:42; 22:13; 25:30; Lu 16:24, etc.). (See Hinnom.)

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY DICTIONARY

HELL

The Hebrews SHEOL, and the Greek HADES, usually translated hell, often signify the place of departed spirits, Ps 16:10; Isa 14:9; Eze 31:16. Here was the rich man, after being buried, Lu 16:23. The above and many other passages in the Old Testament show the futility of that opinion which attributes to the Hebrews an ignorance of a future state.

The term hell is most commonly applied to the place of punishment in the unseen world, and is usually represented in the Greek New Testament by the word Gehenna, valley of Hinnom. See HINNOM. In 2Pe 2:4, the rebellious angels are said, in the original Greek, to have been cast down into "Tartarus," this being the Grecian name of the lowest abyss of Hades. Other expressions are also used, indicating the dreadfulness of the anguish there to be endured. It is called "outer darkness," "flame," "furnace of fire," "unquenchable fire," "fire and brimstone," etc., Mt 8:12; 13:42; 22:13; 25:20,41; Mr 9:43-48; Jg 1:13; Re 20:14. The misery of hell will consist in the privation of the vision and love of God, exclusion from every source of happiness, perpetual sin, remorse of conscience in view of the past, malevolent passions, the sense of the just anger of God, and all other sufferings of body and soul which in the nature of things are the natural results of sin, or which the law of God requires as penal inflictions. The degrees of anguish will be proportioned to the degrees of guilt, Mt 10:15; 23:14; Lu 12:47,48. And these punishments will be eternal, like the happiness of heaven. The wrath of God will never cease to abide upon the lost soul, and it will always be "the wrath to come."

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPIDIA

HELL

hel (see SHEOL; HADES; GEHENNA):

1. The Word in the King James Version:

The English word, from a Teutonic root meaning "to hide" or "cover," had originally the significance of the world of the dead generally, and in this sense is used by Chaucer, Spenser, etc., and in the Creed ("He descended into hell"); compare the English Revised Version Preface. Now the word has come to mean almost exclusively the place of punishment of the lost or finally impenitent; the place of torment of the wicked. In the King James Version of the Scriptures, it is the rendering adopted in many places in the Old Testament for the Hebrew word she'ol (in 31 out of 65 occurrences of that word it is so translated), and in all places, save one (1Co 15:55) in the New Testament, for the Greek word Hades (this word occurs 11 times; in 10 of these it is translated "hell"; 1Co 15:55 reads "grave," with "hell" in the margin). In these cases the word has its older general meaning, though in Lu 16:23 (parable of Rich Man and Lazarus) it is specially connected with a place of "torment," in contrast with the "Abraham's bosom" to which Lazarus is taken (Lu 16:22).

2. The Word in the Revised Version:

In the above cases the Revised Version (British and American) has introduced changes, replacing "hell" by "Sheol" in the passages in the Old Testament (the English Revised Version retains "hell" in Isa 14:9,15; the American Standard Revised Version makes no exception), and by "Hades" in the passages in the New Testament (see under these words).

3. Gehenna:

Besides the above uses, and more in accordance with the modern meaning, the word "hell" is used in the New Testament in the King James Version as the equivalent of Gehenna (12 t; Mt 5:22,29; 10:28, etc.). the Revised Version (British and American) in these cases puts "Gehenna" in the margin. Originally the Valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, Gehenna became among the Jews the synonym for the place of torment in the future life (the "Gehenna of fire," Mt 5:22, etc.; see GEHENNA).

4. Tartarus:

In yet one other passage in the New Testament (2Pe 2:4), "to cast down to hell" is used (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) to represent the Greek tartaroo, ("to send into Tartarus"). Here it stands for the place of punishment of the fallen angels: "spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits (or chains) of darkness" (compare Jude 1:6; but also Mt 25:41). Similar ideas are found in certain of the Jewish apocalyptic books (Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, Apocrypha Baruch, with apparent reference to Ge 6:1-4; compare ESCHATOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT).

On theological aspect, see PUNISHMENT, EVERLASTING, EVERLASTING. For literature, see references in above-named arts., and compare article "Hell" by Dr. D. S. Salmond in HDB.

James Orr

SMITH'S BIBLE DICTIONARY

Hell

Hell.

In the Old Testament this is the word generally and unfortunately used by our translators to render the Hebrew Sheol. It really means the place of the dead, the unseen world, without deciding whether it be the place of misery or of happiness. It is clear that in many passages of the Old Testament Sheol can only mean "the grave," and is rendered in the Authorized Version; see, for example,

Ge 37:35; 42:38; 1Sa 2:6; Job 14:13

In other passages, however, it seems to Involve a notion of punishment, and is therefore rendered in the Authorized Version by the word "hell." But in many cases this translation misleads the reader. In the New Testament "hell" is the translation of two words, Hades and Gehenna. The word Hades, like Sheol sometimes means merely "the grave,"

Ac 2:31; 1Co 15:55; Re 20:13

or in general "the unseen world." It is in this sense that the creeds say of our Lord, "He went down into hell," meaning the state of the dead in general, without any restriction of happiness or misery. Elsewhere in the New Testament Hades is used of a place of torment,

Mt 11:23; Lu 16:23; 2Pe 2:4

etc.; consequently it has been the prevalent, almost the universal, notion that Hades is an intermediate state between death and resurrection, divided into two parts one the abode of the blest and the other of the lost. It is used eleven times in the New Testament, and only once translated "grave."

1Co 15:55

The word most frequently used (occurring twelve times) in the New Testament for the place of future punishment is Gehenna or Gehenna of fire. This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their destruction. [see HINNOM]

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

lollerz!! i admire ur persistence.................

 

[MTXman 10+ year member]

God isn't real... lawl.

I don't mind Christians.. or people of any faith for that matter, until they try to force their beliefs upon others in any fashion.

Gtfo feglet.

 

[sue bee 10+ year member]

What if you're Jewish? I want to go to heaven too!

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

What if you're Jewish? I want to go to heaven too!

Then you are still waiting for the son of God to come.

 

[sue bee 10+ year member]

Then you are still waiting for the son of God to come.

Ok. I hope he's going to be here within my life expectancy.

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

Religion's only purpose is to give uneducated and uninformed people like yourself hope and a meaningful life.

Wow. *rolls eyes

 

[garrettpf 10+ year member]

Religion's only purpose is to give uneducated and uninformed people like yourself hope and a meaningful life.

And to take all thier money, you forgot that little part.

When my parents got married the Catholic church asked for a donation of 33% of thier yearly income.

LMFAO. GO Jesus GO //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[garrettpf 10+ year member]

You know what the funniest part is... If this guy was a REAL christian, he would not have a name and pic of Frodo or anything to do with Lord of the Rings. There is witchcraft in there and man, that is a product of the debil.

dumb@ss, lmao

 

[xfrodobagginsx]

God isn't real... lawl.


I don't mind Christians.. or people of any faith for that matter, until they try to force their beliefs upon others in any fashion.

Gtfo feglet.

No you don't. I didn't force anything on you. You chose to click this thread, this discussion is only contained within this one thread, therefore, I didn't force anything on anyone.