qualifier exceptions: for me it is more evil to go to church because of sorceries in the air and sleep deprivation
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of caurse no, you will not go to hell if you stop going to church but you may if you don’t seek the right religion which is islam, it’s the last message from God to humanity so it is the right one.
The real question here is whether there is a God who would torture ANYONE for any length of time, much less for an eternity? And the answer is “Of course not!” This is particularly true if the core message of Jesus’ original teachings about the nature of God are true.
I’ve actually written an entire book on this topic–”Hell? No! Why You Can Be Certain There’s No Such Place As Hell,” (for anyone interested, you can get a free Ecopy of my book at my website: http://www.ricklannoye.com), but if I may, let me share one of the many points I make in it to explain why Jesus could not have believed in, much less preached the existence of, Hell.
For example, in the gospel of Luke 9:51-56, is a story about his great disappointment with his disciples when they actually suggested imploring God to rain FIRE on a village just because they had rejected him. His response: “You don’t know what spirit is inspiring this kind of talk!” Presumably, it was NOT the Holy Spirit. He went on, trying to explain how he had come to save, heal and relieve suffering, not be the CAUSE of it.
So it only stands to reason that this same Jesus, who was appalled at the very idea of burning a few people, for a few horrific minutes until they were dead, could never, ever burn BILLIONS of people for an ETERNITY!
True, there are a few statements that made their way into the gospels which place Hell on Jesus lips, but these adulterations came along many decades after his death, most likely due to the Church filling up with Greeks who imported their belief in Hades with them when they converted.
One of the most famous as well as the most controversial teachings ever is that those who are bad go to hell, a burning place of torment.
If I were to ask you to show me where in the Bible it speaks about hell, you would have a hard time finding it. Why? Because hell is not described in the Bible. Hell as a place of torment is not a Bible teaching. Before we go deeper into this, let’s first figure out what the origin of the teaching of hellfire started.
In ancient Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs the “nether world . . . is pictured as a place full of horrors, and is presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.” (The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Boston, 1898, Morris Jastrow, Jr., p. 581) Early evidence of the fiery aspect of Christendom’s hell is found in the religion of ancient Egypt. (The Book of the Dead, New Hyde Park, N.Y., 1960, with introduction by E. A. Wallis Budge, pp. 144, 149, 151, 153, 161) Buddhism, which dates back to the 6th century B.C.E., in time came to feature both hot and cold hells. (The Encyclopedia Americana, 1977, Vol. 14, p. 68) Depictions of hell portrayed in Catholic churches in Italy have been traced to Etruscan roots.—La civiltà etrusca (Milan, 1979), Werner Keller, p. 389.
But the real roots of this God-dishonoring doctrine go much deeper. The fiendish concepts associated with a hell of torment slander God and originate with the chief slanderer of God (the Devil, which name means “Slanderer”), the one whom Jesus Christ called “the father of the lie.” (John 8:44) Now, let’s define this term “hell” and get an accurate understanding of this word.
The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words?
The Hebrew she’ohl? and its Greek equivalent hai?des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge?en•na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction. However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished (and some believe that this is with torment).
Does the Bible indicate that the dead are being tormented or are experiencing pain?
Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*“Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB; “the grave,” KJ, Kx; “hell,” Dy; “the world of the dead,” TEV.)
Psalm 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts* do perish.” (*“Thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “schemes,” JB; “plans,” RS, TEV.)
Why is there confusion as to what the Bible says about hell?
Translators have allowed their personal beliefs to color their work instead of being consistent in their rendering of the original-language words. For example: (1) The King James Version rendered she’ohl? as “hell,” “the grave,” and “the pit”; hai?des is therein rendered both “hell” and “grave”; ge?en•na is also translated “hell.” (2) Today’s English Version transliterates hai?des as “Hades” and also renders it as “hell” and “the world of the dead.” But besides rendering “hell” from hai?des it uses that same translation for ge?en•na. (3) The Jerusalem Bible transliterates hai?des six times, but in other passages it translates it as “hell” and as “the underworld.” It also translates ge?en•na as “hell,” as it does hai?des in two instances. Thus the exact meanings of the original-language words have been obscured.
Is there eternal punishment for the wicked?
2 Thess. 1:9, RS: “They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction* and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.” (*“Eternal ruin,” NAB, NE; “lost eternally,” JB; “condemn them to eternal punishment,” Kx; “eternal punishment in destruction,” Dy.)
Jude 7, KJ: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (The fire that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ceased burning thousands of years ago. But the effect of that fire has been lasting; the cities have not been rebuilt. God’s judgment, however, was against not merely those cities but also their wicked inhabitants. What happened to them is a warning example. At Luke 17:29, Jesus says that they were “destroyed”; Jude 7 shows that the destruction was eterna
I don’t think the christians teach that you have to go to one of their churches to stay out of hell. I could be wrong, but I think the important part is the personal relationship with their deity.
No as hell was created by religion/christianity to create fear and the only solution to avoid it was to follow there faith
Try Buddhist temple instant church .
There is no evil .
Peaceful people with useful ideas for life .
I’ll give you an answer!!! Church is Hell!!! Find Heaven, in God not church!!! Question Answered!!!
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