Are you sending your neighbors to Hell?

[St. SteVen]

I do know that hell is eternal.

Let's explore that idea.

Aionios mistranslated as "eternal" and "everlasting" in Matthew 25:46.

All these verses below use the same NT Greek word, "aionios", the Greek word mistranslated as "eternal" and "everlasting" in Matthew 25:46. See bold below. This shows that "aionios" cannot mean eternal or everlasting.

Matthew 13:22
The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

1 Corinthians 2:8
None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Ephesians 2:2
in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

Galatians 1:4-5 KJV
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Luke 18:29-30
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”

Compare: Matthew 12:32; Mark 10:30; Luke 18:30; Luke 20:35; Ephesians 1:21

Aionios, the Greek word mistranslated as "eternal" and "everlasting" in the Bible (eternal hell?)

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Since you don't, do you think you need to share the gospel with your neighbors?

Yes. A relationship with God is beneficial in this lifetime as well.
Knowing God is MORE than "fire insurance". (to avoid hell)

 

[ButterflyJones]

Perhaps the best evidence that no one really believes in a forever-burning Hell.
Or that no one really loves their neighbors. Take your pick.

If you really loved your neighbors, and believed in a forever-burning Hell, you wouldn't send them there.

I can hear the reply coming now. "I didn't send them to Hell, they sent themselves there."
Did you do anything to stop them? Did you convince them otherwise?
Did you live a life that made Christ attractive? I see...

Fortunately for me, I don't believe in a forever-burning Hell. Not really my problem.
Do you believe in a forever-burning Hell? (nope) If you did...

Or maybe you don't really love your neighbors. Seems to go hand-in-hand.

This OP makes no sense and is entirely contradictory of itself.

Presuming Hell is scriptural:
We do not send ourselves to Hell. Nor others.
God's judgement sends people to Hell.

 

[St. SteVen]

This OP makes no sense and is entirely contradictory of itself.

Thanks for coming to the rescue.

Presuming Hell is scriptural:
We do not send ourselves to Hell. Nor others.
God's judgement sends people to Hell.

Did Jesus dies to save us from God?

 

[ButterflyJones]

Thanks for coming to the rescue.

Did Jesus dies to save us from God?

Being Jesus was God, yes.

Sin is violating God's law. God made the rules. And levies the judgement.

 

[St. SteVen]

Sin is violating God's law. God made the rules. And levies the judgement.

Are we under the law?

Galatians 3:23-25 NIV
Before the coming of this faith,[a] we were held in custody under the law,
locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed.
24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.
25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

 

[ButterflyJones]

Are we under the law?

Galatians 3:23-25 NIV
Before the coming of this faith,[a] we were held in custody under the law,
locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed.
24 So the law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith.
25 Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

You believe we can sin with impunity?

God's law still holds. As Jesus said.

 

[St. SteVen]

God's law still holds. As Jesus said.

Is that a reference to Matthew 5:17-18 ? (see below)
Here's what Jesus had to say about that after his resurrection.
Note the "the Law" refers to the books of the Law, not the law itself.
Same applies to "the Prophets" and Psalms". The books.

Luke 24:44 NIV
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you:
Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in
the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

Matthew 5:17-18 NIV
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets;
I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter
not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear
from the Law until everything is accomplished.

 

[ButterflyJones]

Is that a reference to Matthew 5:17-18 ? (see below)
Here's what Jesus had to say about that after his resurrection.
Note the "the Law" refers to the books of the Law, not the law itself.
Same applies to "the Prophets" and Psalms". The books.

Luke 24:44 NIV
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you:
Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in
the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

Matthew 5:17-18 NIV
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets;
I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter
not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear
from the Law until everything is accomplished.

That's it.

 

[St. SteVen]

I can hear the reply coming now. "I didn't send them to Hell, they sent themselves there."
Did you do anything to stop them? Did you convince them otherwise?
Did you live a life that made Christ attractive?

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[Lambano]

Are you sending your neighbors to Hell?​

I didn't know I had that power. Muhuhahahahahahaha!

 

[Adrift]

I had some neighbors who were apparently hell-bent on going to Hell. I tried to be nice and start conversation only to be told "Git off my property". They would toss their dog poop and grass clippings over the fence into my back yard. It was like trying to love Hitler. I had to "love" them from a distance and had the feeling that I was really forcing myself to love who they could have (should have?) been. The Biblical "Love" for your neighbor is interesting. Easy to say, yet sometimes hard to do.

 

[Lambano]

I had some neighbors who were apparently hell-bent on going to Hell. I tried to be nice and start conversation only to be told "Git off my property". They would toss their dog poop and grass clippings over the fence into my back yard.

I had one of those in SoFla. I was thinking of him when I wrote #30 above.

 

[St. SteVen]

Are you sending your neighbors to Hell?​

I didn't know I had that power. Muhuhahahahahahaha!

With some neighbors... could be a real temptation.

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