The Judgement Day is clear in Revalations, those who are written out of The Book of Life will not be saved and will not enter The Kingdom of Heaven.
What Hell is will be found out by those who are written off, by thier own actions.
I for one do not want to find out what hell is. The fact of not being in Heaven with Jesus Christ for eternity is Hell enough.
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Uh,... no.
It depends on whether you trust Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, or not. That has nothing whatsoever to do with where in Scotland (or the world) you live.
It is also irrelevant whether you "believe" in the existence of Hell as to whether you end up there or not.
So anyone who doesn't express an explicit belief in god is condemned to an eternity of hideous torture? Man, that god is one sick and twisted dude! He seems to be a very insecure individual as well...
BTTT!
I don't beleive IN hell and i don't beleive in Satan i beleive hell exists and i beleive Satan exists For Christ has told me he is real.
I beleive in Jesus Christ and i beleive in heaven
You can't have one without the other the one you beleive of is a choice given to you freely and if you choose not to beleive you still have made a choice
Wording of phrases could be just as damning as the phrase itself.
In C.S. Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters", Satan makes the point that the most important thing his legion can teach mankind, is that they don't exist.
If you don't believe in consequences, there is no importance in avoiding them.
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It is sad and pathetic that only 1/3 of the ministers of Christ believe in Hell and damnation.
I wonder how many believe in the Resurrection?
Persoanlly, I believe the true suffering in Hell doesn't involve Medieval Demons tormenting souls.
Hell is the absence of God. God is found EVERYWHERE on in Earth, even in the most aweful of places He is there to comfrot us. In Hell, God does not exist - that is the true horror of it - the absence of God.
And I don't believe God condemns us to Hell, I believe our own sins and weaknesses do it. I think people wjo are bound for Hell are almost there right now - before they even die, and their Hell is in having rejected God and His saving grace and love.
"...Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8)
Eric Stoddard may be a lecturer in "practical theology," whatever that is, but he is woefully ignorant of the Bible.
There are several dozen descriptions of hell as a place in the Bible.
Then there is something wrong with other 2...
"More than a third of Scotland's clergy still believe in the literal existence of Hell as a place, according to a new survey."
For heaven to exist - hell must as well.
Just 30 some percent believe in hell?
Damn.