Immortality or Resurrection (Updated), William West [black female authors .txt] 📗

Hell will not exist unto after the judgment.
• 16). Some believe that Hell now exists with the angels that sinned in it, but no
person will be in Hell unto after the judgment.
• 17). Some believe that although God is omnipresent [present in all places at the
same time], nevertheless He is not present in Hell. They believe those in Hell are
separated from God, they believe death is separation from God and the second
death is an eternal Hell, and at the same time they believe God is there tormenting
them and gives them life. All life comes from God. He would have to be present
and not present at the same time. The lost would be separated from God and not
separated from God simultaneously, for He would be wherever they were
separated from Him if He were doing the tormenting.
• 18). If you go back in time 50 or 100 years, most all preachers were teaching
"Hell" to be a place of "fire and brimstone." Today "fire and brimstone" is almost
never used by preachers or in today's theology. Do you believe in the "Hell" of
today or the "Hell" of 100 years ago?
HELL HAS BEEN MOVED
Pagan philosophers mostly believed the soul was somewhere underground unto it was
reincarnated. The first time Hell is used in the King James Version, it is on this earth, and
is the punishment and scattering of Israel [Deuteronomy 32:22-26]. "Though they dig
into Hell" [Amos 9:27 King James Version]. Most of the "church fathers," and the
Church in the Dark Age, believed Hell was underground. Both the Catholic Church and
the "Apostle's creed," which is used by many Protestants says Christ descended into Hell
at His death; and preached to the souls in prison. Many encyclopedias and lexicons still
say this. The New Oxford American Dictionary says, “hell ‘hel’ a place regarded in
various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as
a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death.”
When I was a child, I heard repeatedly that the "Devil" lived under the ground and would
get you if you were bad. Now almost no one believes Hell is under ground and it has
been moved to some dark place on the backside of some far away no one knows where
place. Most who believed Hell to be under the earth also believed the earth will end at the
coming of Christ. I have never heard them explain how the earth will be destroyed, but
the Hell that is under ground (inside of the earth) will last forever.
O-well, one is as good as another and one place is as good as any other for there is no
Bible teaching for any of them. They are all man made, and believing any of them is to
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believe a lie. "But in vain do they worship me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of
men" [Matthew 15:9]. The only sure thing is that what men believe about Hell is that Hell
is always changing to suit the times and the denominations.
BELIEVERS IN HELL MUST
Must do away with death. If death is real, if when God said death, God meant what
He said, then Hell cannot be.
Must prove that men are now immortal Must prove that there is an immaterial,
invisible part of a person that has no substance and this nothing, whatever "it" is, is now
as immortal as it will be after the judgment; and this nothing is the only part of a person
Christ will save and the only part of a person that will be in Heaven. If a person is now
mortal, he cannot now be immortal.
Must make words like destroy, perish, die, death, lost be used only with a
theological sense. If they are used "in the fair, stipulated, and well-established meaning
of the terms" then Hell cannot be.
Must prove that Hell is in the Bible, both the name and the particular place they
call Hell. If they do not prove there is a Hell, but teach it, they have added to the Bible.
Must prove that the "nehphesh" animals have in Genesis 1:20; 1:21; 1:24; 1:30;
2:19 is mortal but the "nehphesh" men have in Genesis 2:7 is immortal.
FROM WHERE DID HELL COME?
IT CAME FROM PAGAN PHILOSOPHERS, and was brought into the church along
with Purgatory, the sale of indulgences, Limbo, worship of Mary and saints, Nether
World, Holy Water, the rosary, forbidding Priests to marry, the crucifix, forbidding
eating of meat on Friday, candle-burning, and many other teachings; and was opposed by
such men as Luther, Tyndale, Moses Lord, and many others. It came into the church in
the Dark Age from Pagan Greek philosophers and writers like Dante Aligheri's (1265-
1321) "The Divine Comedy" and Milton's "Paradise Lost" added things like Satan has a
red suit, horns, and pitchfork and is forever tormenting the damned. Aligheri was a pagan
who believed the teaching of Plato on the soul being immortal and his book is basically
Plato's view of the soul that is in "The Divine Comedy." This view of Hell was adopted in
the Middle Age Church to create fear of leaving the church. The church in the Dark Age
and the translators of the King James Bible were more influenced by this Pagan
philosophy and writers of that time then they were from the teaching of God.
Growler 1995 Encyclopedia ASPS says, "In Greek Mythology, Hades is the underworld ruled
by the god of that name, who is also known as Pluto; in Nurse Mythology, Hel is a cold and
shadowy subterranean realm." Both Hel and Hell are from the same root word- "Kel."
The American Heritage Dictionary, Page 2108 says, "KEL-1. O-grade from kal 1. A Hell, from Old
English Hell, Hell; B HEL, from Old Nurse Hel, the underworld, goddess of death."
Compton's 1995 Encyclopedia, "Hell and Hades" "The modern Western understanding of Hell
derives from the latest period in ancient Israel's history, and it was more fully developed by early
Christianity...There is no fully developed teaching about Hell in the New Testament, though
there are frequent mentions of it. Only in the course of later church history was it elaborated into
official church doctrine. Today the New Testament statements and their later explanation are
taken literally by some Christians, regarded as allegory or myth by some, and denied altogether
by others."
Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 2, Page 402, "Old English. Hel, a Teutonic word from a root
meaning 'to cover.'"
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Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 14, Page 81, "Much confusion and misunderstanding has
been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol
and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by
the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this
confusion and misconception."
[1]. HEL AND OTHER PAGAN TEACHING WERE BROUGHT INTO THE
BIBLE [as Hell] BY REINTERPRETING FOUR WORDS FIFTY-SEVEN TIMES in
the King James Version, but much fewer times in later translations, and none at all in
many translations. The American Standard Version, which many say is the most accurate
translation ["This honored version of 1901, long held to be the most accurate translation
in the English language" Star Bible catalog Page 3, 1996], uses it 13 times; and even then
has a footnote which says, "Gr. Gehenna" or "Gr. Tartarus."
Csonka says, "Every good Bible student know Hades is not Hell" Truth Magazine, 1995, Page
17. Then why do so many in the Lord's church teach it is?
"The word Gehenna does not occur in the LXX or Greek literature...In contrast with later
Christian writings and ideas, the torments of hell are not described in the NT...Neither does the
NT contain the idea that Satan is the prince of gehenna, to whom sinners are handed over for
punishment" The Dictionary of New Testament Theology, Volume 2, Page 208-209.
One writer in the Lord's church [who believes in Hell] says, "The New Testament is
loaded with metaphors that describe Hell" and then he says Gehenna is one of the
metaphors. On the page before he says that Gehenna is not used in secular Greek
literature, not used in the Septuagint, and not by Josephus in the last part of the first
century in any of his writings. When he says they did not use Gehenna, he is using it to
mean Hell; therefore, he is saying Hell was not used by any of the above. Neither is it in
any of the Apocryphal books. The first time Gehenna (not Hell) is used by any Christian
writer was by Justin Martyr in about A. D. 150 and he says the unrighteous will suffer
and then pass out of existence. NO ONE KNOW OF OR USED “HELL” FOR THE
FIRST 15O YEARS! THEN IT WAS A HELL THAT LASTED FOR ONLY A
LIMITED TIME THEN ENDED!
[2]. NOT IN VOCABULARY: Heaven and Earth are named together about 30 times,
and each is named separately 100's of times, but not one time is Hell named or even
spoken of. Why? No doubt, it would have been if Hell was real and there is such a place.
We are even told not to swear by Heaven or Earth [Matthew 5:34], but today men swear
by Hell as much or more than anything. Why not then? Was it not because it is a word
that was not in their vocabulary? No word with the meaning of today's English Hell was
used in the ancient writing as a swear word or any other way; no such word was in their
vocabulary and they knew of no such place. THE CONCEPT OF THE PLACE CALLED
HELL, OR THE NAME HELL IS NOT IN THE BIBLE, AND DOES NOT OCCUR IN
ANY WRITING OF EITHER THE HEBREWS OR THE GREEKS UNTO LONG
AFTER THE BIBLE. THE OLD TESTAMENT HEBREW, OR THE NEW
TESTAMENT GREEK, HAS NO WORD THAT IS EVEN CLOSE TO TODAY'S
ENGLISH WORD "HELL." It is not in Greek literature in New Testaments times or
before, first century writers did not use it, Josephus or any other historian of that time did
not use it, it is not in the Septuagint, it was unknown about unto long after the last book
of the Bible was written. HOW DO WE KNOW ABOUT THIS PLACE CALLED
HELL? WHERE DID HELL COME FROM? Not by faith that comes by hearing God's
word. It is from the doctrines and precepts of men [Matthew 15:9]. It was not used in the
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first century because it was a place they knew nothing about. The word "Hell" is of
Saxon origin about the 3rd to 5th century A. D. and originally was any covered over
place such a roof or a grave. The nearest thing I can find to the English word Hell is in
Greek Mythology and Nurse Mythology [According to Socrates, Plato and other Greek
philosopher], was a shadowy subterranean realm somewhere under the earth where souls
went unto they could be reincarnated; but this shadowy place was far from being as
terrible or as dreadful a place as today's Hell is, and "souls" would only be in it unto they
were reincarnated. This underground place did not have the name Hell and is nothing like
the Hell that grew out of it in the Dark Age.
"Three hundred years or so ago the word 'Hell' was commonly used to refer to any dark or
foreboding place. A grave could be referred to by that term without readers or hearers
automatically envisioning 'the lake of fire, which is the second death' [Rev. 20:15]. The hole dug
in the ground to receive the body of a deceased loved one is certainly a foreboding place. A
prison, dungeon, lunatic asylum, or a valley such as