Is it possible when its says you will burn in hell forever in the bible that it means something different?

Question

People thought the ocean went on forever back in them days. When it says you will burn in hell forever if you a sinner could that mean something else?

Answer 1

The phrase, "burn in hell forever" was invented by a con artist, in order to take away your freewill, and every commandment invented was created for the same reason. Your own nervous system tells you undeniable truth.

Answer 2

hell and paradise are spiritual states..The "burning" etc was invented as a way to explain to people who could not deal with higher concepts. If you do believe in a christian God, do not take anything the bible says at face value; it is a story made for people 2000 years ago..You should look behind the lines to figure out the truth. Plus even if you are a sinner you have soooo much time ahead of you to repent, so why be scared? And you're right, forever is a long time, no one knows what will happen "when time ends". All I know is that God is supposed to be loving and he probably would let evil burning souls for eternity...

Answer 3

Hate to tell you Christians, Hell is not eternal nor is the lake of fire, NOW I see the religious world giving me the thumbs down, First of all let me ask you, do you think we will burn forever in hell or even the lake of fire, if you answer is yes, Then we all have eternal life, when there is only one source of eternal life, Read Rev. 20: mainly from verse 10-15 Also read Rev. 20:6 the second resurrection is called what(Not eternal life) but Death, Therefore when the rich man lifted up his eyes in hell being in pain & torment, the bible says where the (Luke 16:23-31 & we find in the other 3 gospels, where it speaks of the skin worms that dieth not, Now a spirit or soul do not have skinworms only the body, therefore we have to see what this actually means, The body is in the ground, not in hell, Therefore these skinworms is none other then the torment of the mind that they had a chance but they rejected it, Therefore when God in Rev. cast hell into the lake of fire, Yes every sinner will be in literal flames then, Some may suffer a million yrs & some shorter or longer, But the end results is that all will be destroyed in the lake of fire, & that is the second death.

Answer 4

Yes of course it might mean something different.



The Hebrew (Old Testament) word that's sometimes translated hell is sheol. It simply means "under the ground" or the grave.



One New Testament word translated hell is "gehenna". That was the name of the dump outside Jerusalem where they burned the trash.



Matthew the gospel writer often mentions being "cast into the outer darkness, where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth" Could that be outside the city gates at night?



"Forever" in the New Testament is, in the original Greek, "into the age," or sometimes "into the ages of ages." What does that actually mean?



Maybe "hell" is separation from the love of God? Maybe "forever" is what a sleepless night of regret over something bad you've done seems like? Could it be?



The old song says, "'twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fear relieved." The two things go together. One without the other is nothing at all. Could it be that people have used the Bible to control other people through the ages by telling the Bible offered them fear without relief? More recently we're being offered relief without fear, which might be just as bad.



The angel who announced the birth of Jesus to the shepherds that night (where, by the way, they were in darkness outside the city; they were hanging out under the ground in a cave to keep warm, and they were near the Jerusalem city dump) said "Do not be afraid! Look! I bring you good news of great joy."



Do not be afraid!

Answer 5

A Christian should only be concerned with what Jesus says in the 4 Gospels, and Jesus never used the word hell, and Jesus never said people would burn there



Don't read the King James Version of the bible, the mistranslations in that bible are ridiculous

Answer 6

the original texts do not say that those humans thrown into the lake of fire burn forever.those that refuse to repent of their sins and decide for themselves to reject eternal life will be burnt up very fast and never live again - revelation 20:13-15 / 2 peter 3:7



the last stage of the lake of fire at the end of 1000 years will become so intense that the oceans and atmosphere of earth will be boiled off into space's vacuum and no animal or human life will remain but only the immortals that accepted Yah's gift of eternal life - revelation 21:1



destroy means exactly that it doesn't mean to leave half alive - matthew 10:28

Answer 7

If you mean the original Jewish scriptures (TaNaKh) then yes, it means something different. Sheol means 'grave' in Hebrew, NOT 'hell' as in the xtian mistranslated 'old' testament.



If you mean the new testament, then no, the new testament believes in a literal underworld with the god hades running the show and a river of fire.



Early xtians used the Jewish scriptures to create the old testament, but added the mythology of literal demons and hell, because that's what they believed. Early muslims used the xtian old testament and gospels (but not paul) to create the quran, but added the book of enoch and quoted mohamed (long dead) to create the quran.



xtianity thinks it supercedes Judaism, and islam thinks it supercedes xtianity. xtianity is as odd to Judaism as islam is to xtianity.



Its not that you burn forever, and Judaism has no promise of another life besides this life, but instead celebrates this life. There is a threat that those who reject the God of Israel, since he is the only God, they will cease to exist, will be destroyed for all time, never to return.



No one knows what that means, it could be that we reincarnate and it would be the end of that or it could mean that your line ends - no children. It could also be a threat to all the false gods, that people, when they return to the only God will burn all their false religious symbols, to destroy them.



Whatever it means, it will be something natural, since Judaism believes in the rational and natural order of the universe, no hell, no demons, nothing supernatural happens here and never has.

Answer 8

ok, so which you appeared up some Greek and Hebrew. i don't, although, stick to you're reasoning. Gehenna (gehinnom) references the 'lake of fireplace' of Revelation, which replaced right into a popularly understood concept on the time. The valley of Hinom replaced into used as an occasion or an analogy and the call caught. via fact the lifestyle of Judea in New testomony cases replaced into heavily stimulated via the Greek (imported via Alexander and his successors), and since the NT replaced into written in Greek as a extra general language than Hebrew, of path Greek words have been appropriated. The meaning is taken from the contextual use. not sure the place to procure your quote approximately eternal existence, although this is sensible adequate in context. eternal (aionos) existence is that which abides for a whole age. Time is divided right into a while in extremely Tolkeinesque trend (he borrowed the thought): the time from introduction to the Flood replaced into one age (interior of which persons lived an prolonged time). The time on the grounds that could be considered a 2d age, once you're Jewish, or could be divided into 2 a while, until eventually now and after Christ once you're a Christian. New testomony writers talk of 'the age to come returned', the place 'aion' can be translated as 'dispensation' -- meaning a marked exchange in guy's relationship to God and as a result contained in the character of the international. The age to come returned is the Millenial Kingdom this is desperate up on the return of Christ. And after that (literal? 1000 years?), John in Revelations and Peter in his letters says there will be a clean heaven and earth and an entire reunification of guy along with his writer. Aionos existence will undergo for that finished term, for which no end is considered -- subsequently this is eternal. even nonetheless this is confusing to deduce each and all of the thought techniques of Bible writers, it sort of feels to me that 'aionos' is used rather of 'kosmos', on account this is extra particular to the subject be counted. 'Kosmos' can be rendered 'cosmos' or 'universe', too commonly used a term.

Answer 9

Here's how I see it~

There's a difference in meaning between punishment and punishing. The punishment is forever, but the punishing doesn't go on forever.

Sort of like a trash incinerator, the fire keeps burning all the time, you throw in the trash, it burns up pretty quick, and is gone, forever. That's the punishment for being trash, burnt up, gone, forever. The fire keeps burning, but the trash is gone.

So I believe hell is the trash incinerator, the "everlasting fire", but the trash is gone in a flash. No eternal torture over & over. God isn't sadistic, but he don't take no trash either.

Does that help?

Answer 10

In order to answer your question, you must understand the righteousness of God.



God is a God of righteousness. It is his character and nature. Psalm 97:2 even says that it is God's Habitation.



Now understand that God shows his righteousness by His Judgments. God naturally opposes all evil. Even a hint of it, God utterly abhors (hates). God Cannot Sin nor can he be tempted to sin. It is Against his essence.



Now look at the first Judgment of a simple disobedience.



mans first act of disobedience was in the Garden of Eden. Adam and even decided to eat from the forbidden tree which God told them specifically not to eat from. DO you know what was the punishment from that one act of disobedience?



Cursed was the serpent, Cursed was the ground, cursed was the woman, cursed was the man and cursed was any offspring of man. On that day God issued the death sentence (hell) to all humans. We were cut off from God because of one act of disobedience.



Are you starting to get a clue about the righteousness of God? Through his judgments of sin, we can see his level of righteousness. If one simple act of disobedience cause this reaction from God, Imagine a lifetime of sins being Judged on that great day.



What is the worse sin imaginable? it says in the bible that the one who rejects God's son, The precious lamb of God, The Holy one, The only who was able to keep all of God's commands will be severely judged. To treat the atoning blood of Jesus as an Unholy thing is probably the worst sin of all.



Remember that God's Judgments reveal his Character. The bible says that God Is Forever Holy and Righteous

Answer 11

The word the Bible uses to describe a burning hell—Gehenna—comes from a burning place, the valley of Gehenna adjacent to Jerusalem on the south. Gehenna is an English transliteration of the Greek form of an Aramaic word, which is derived from the Hebrew phrase “the Valley of (the son[s] of) Hinnom.” In one of their greatest apostasies, the Jews (especially under kings Ahaz and Manasseh) passed their children through the fires in sacrifice to the god Molech in that very valley (2 Kings 16:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6; Jeremiah 32:35). Eventually, the Jews considered that location to be ritually unclean (2 Kings 23:10), and they defiled it all the more by casting the bodies of criminals into its smoldering heaps. In Jesus’ time this was a place of constant fire, but more so, it was a refuse heap, the last stop for all items judged by men to be worthless. When Jesus spoke of Gehenna hell, He was speaking of the city dump of all eternity. Yes, fire was part of it, but the purposeful casting away—the separation and loss—was all of it.



In Mark 9:43 Jesus used another powerful image to illustrate the seriousness of hell.“If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.” For most readers, this images does escape its own gravity—in spite of the goriness! Few believe that Jesus wants us literally to cut off our own hand. He would rather that we do whatever is necessary to avoid going to hell, and that is the purpose of such language—to polarize, to set up an either/or dynamic, to compare. Since the first part of the passage uses imagery, the second part does also, and therefore should not be understood as an encyclopedic description of hell.



In addition to fire, the New Testament describes hell as a bottomless pit (abyss) (Revelation 20:3), a lake (Revelation 20:14), darkness (Matthew 25:30), death (Revelation 2:11), destruction (2 Thessalonians 1:9), everlasting torment (Revelation 20:10), a place of wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 25:30), and a place of gradated punishment (Matthew 11:20-24; Luke 12:47-48; Revelation 20:12-13). The very variety of hell’s descriptors argues against applying a literal interpretation of any particular one. For instance, hell’s literal fire could emit no light, since hell would be literally dark. Its fire could not consume its literal fuel (persons!) since their torment is non-ending. Additionally, the gradation of punishments within hell also confounds literalness. Does hell’s fire burn Hitler more fiercely than an honest pagan? Does he fall more rapidly in the abyss than another? Is it darker for Hitler? Does he wail and gnash louder or more continually than the other? The variety and symbolic nature of descriptors do not lessen hell, however—just the opposite in fact. Their combined effect describes a hell that is worse than death, darker than darkness, and deeper than any abyss. Hell is a place with more wailing and gnashing of teeth than any single descriptor could ever portray. Its symbolic descriptors bring us to a place beyond the limits of our language—to a place far worse than we could ever imagine.

Answer 12

No. It is a warning from God to those who are rebellious. It is very clear that we all are born physically once and when we die if it is with out Jesus Christ we then are judged by a righteous God at the Great White Throne and with out Jesus none can be saved from God's wrath.

Answer 13

The bible doesn't support any such teaching of Hell fire. Pure human invention. If you are wicked you will be destroyed. See the whole chapter 37 of Psalms.

Answer 14

Sorry, I don't believe in Hell.

I believe we are sent back to this crappy planet until we get it right on a personal level. Then, and only then, do we get to live in the eternal Afterlife.

Answer 15

you don't actually burn in hell. its a figure of speech. its going to hurt. but most by massive amounts of sorrow and sickness of regret. highly massive. and its very dark. you'll only see a small crack of heaven. and you won't be able to reach it. you'll see corpses with worms crawling out of their faces. everything is slow and painful.





i see hell more like your still flesh, but your skin is diseased and rotten that has boils on it. and moving would hurt so bad.

Answer 16

Don't take anything in the Bible (or any scripture) seriously. If you sin (e.g. kill someone) you will "burn in hell" (be discarded from society and get surprise buttsecks in prison).

Answer 17

not, nothing different. If it says u will burn forever it will be.God will decide who will burn on hell for ever. So "stay on bright side"

Paz

Answer 18

it says eternity thats means never ending, forever lasting...so no it means forever!

Answer 19

It means that the bible is to be discarded by rational people.

Answer 20

from what I gathered it only lasts 1000 years

Answer 21

Can you please show me where in the Bible that it says there's a burning Hell, please.

Answer 22

no

Answer 23

maybe