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Truth and Nothing But the TRUTH: Hell Doesn’t Burn Forever!

Hell Doesn't Burn Forever!Conversation With a Friend ~ Hell Doesn’t Burn Forever!

I spent a lot of time yesterday, talking with my friend, about how at the end, what will happen to those who are lost.  I believe Hell Doesn’t Burn Forever!  She thinks that the fear of knowing they are going to burn FOREVER & EVER will cause many of them to become Christians and give up their sinful ways and be saved.  I couldn’t disagree more. We serve a loving and kind God. He doesn’t want the service of those who are AFRAID of Him. He wants us to serve Him, because we LOVE Him. Most of you have children of your own. Do you want them to obey you because they are so AFRAID of you, they FEAR what you will do to them if they don’t obey youz?  Or do you want them to obey you because they LOVE you so much, and they want to show their love to you by being obedient?  Children who obey out of fear, and not out of love, will soon not obey as soon as they think they are out of your reach, and you can no longer punish them. Likewise, people who get SCARED into following Jesus, their motives are not right, and God reads our hearts, and He knows that they are only OUTWARDLY acting as Christians. Inwardly, their hearts have not been changed. They still want to do the things of the World, they still love the World and sin more than they love Jesus. No one is SAFE to SAVE in that condition.

Are You Safe to Save?

God is not going to take the chance of sin ever rising again the 2nd time. Only those will be saved and enter Heaven who HATE sin and LOVE righteousness. Not until we come to that experience in our life, are we SAFE to SAVE. Those who are only doing the outwardly “right” things because they are AFRAID of punishment, are not SAFE to SAVE, as when circumstances are right, and they have an opportunity to sin without getting caught, they will take it.

If your motivation to be a Christian is to escape the flames of Hell, your motivation is wrong. You need to be BORN AGAIN. You need to ask God to give you a NEW HEART, a heart that WANTS to OBEY Him because you LOVE Him so much.

Hell Doesn’t Burn Forever!

There is no such thing as a FOREVER BURNING HELL. Even the worst of sinners are only going to burn until they are BURNED UP and their body has been reduced to ASHES.

Al found this article last night with a list of famous Christians who believed and taught that if you didn’t repent and come to Jesus, you would burn FOREVER & EVER throughout all ETERNITY. It gives quotes by these people, and what they said on this topic. These people must have laid awake at night, trying to think up the most gruesome and awful things they could say to petrify people into following Jesus! Hell Doesn’t Burn Forever!

Terrifying Belief!

The statement of one man named Jonathan Edwards (the 3rd statement by him, there are 3 sections in this article), states that ~ “Newspapers reported people leaving his sermons and committing suicide from the fear he instilled in them.” And you can see sure see why when you read what he taught people.

“The world will probably be converted into a great lake or liquid globe of fire, in which the wicked shall be overwhelmed, which will always be in tempest, in which they shall be tossed to and fro, having no rest day and night, vast waves and billows of fire continually rolling over their heads, of which they shall forever be full of a quick sense within and without; their heads, their eyes, their tongues, their hands, their feet, their loins and their vitals, shall forever be full of a flowing, melting fire, fierce enough to melt the very rocks and elements; and also, they shall eternally be full of the most quick and lively sense to feel the torments; not for one minute, not for one day, not for one age, not for two ages, not for a hundred ages, nor for ten thousand millions of ages, one after another, but forever and ever, without any end at all, and never to be delivered.” https://tentmaker.org/Quotes/hell-fire.htm

A Forever Burning Hell Came From Catholicism

As I said in the post yesterday on this topic, this is a false teaching, originating in Paganism, “Christianized” by Roman Catholicism and accepted and taught by the vast majority of Protestants, TODAY.Martin Luther came out of Catholicism, and this is what he said about this doctrine taught by the Catholic Church ~

The theory of the immortality of the soul was one of those false doctrines that Rome, borrowing from paganism, incorporated into the religion of Christendom. Martin Luther classed it with the “monstrous fables that form part of the Roman dunghill of decretals.”—E. Petavel, The Problem of Immortality, page 255. Commenting on the words of Solomon in Ecclesiastes, that the dead know not anything, the Reformer says: “Another place proving that the dead have no … feeling. There is, saith he, no duty, no science, no knowledge, no wisdom there. Solomon judgeth that the dead are asleep, and feel nothing at all. For the dead lie there, accounting neither days nor years, but when they are awaked, they shall seem to have slept scarce one minute.”—Martin Luther, Exposition of Solomon’s Booke Called Ecclesiastes, page 152.

Friends, we want our beliefs to come from the BIBLE, from God’s Word, not from PAGANISM or CATHOLICISM. The Bible is abundantly clear. When a person dies, they are SLEEPING, and they don’t wake up until the RESURRECTION when Jesus comes. And when the lost are punished, they will be burned up along with Satan and all the evil angels. No one will suffer for ETERNITY. All this talk of BURNING IN HELL for ETERNITY is HOGWASH! It’s horrible SCARE TACTICS, trying to SCARE people into Heaven! Hell Doesn’t Burn Forever!