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   On 9/18/2023 3:13 PM, James wrote:   
   > Still believe in hellfire?   
   >   
   > Many Bibles translate the OT word "sheol" as hell.(or  just leave it   
   > as "sheol") And it talks about people dying and going to sheol. So   
   > what is sheol?   
   >   
   > "What the Tanakh does make it clear, is that Sheol is not the place   
   > where evil people go. It’is just the place where everyone goes.   
   > Everyone dies and goes down to Sheol… even the patriarch Jacob knew he   
   > would go there, eventually. Here was his response after he heard that   
   > his son Joseph had died (although really, he had not):   
   >   
   > Genesis 37:34-35   
   >   
   > "So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned   
   > for his son many days. Then all his sons and all his daughters arose   
   > to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I   
   > will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for   
   > him."   
   >   
   > For Jacob this was not a heaven or hell debate… it was merely saying   
   > that the loss of his son would kill him; it would put him in his   
   > grave, (not send him to hell). "   
   > https://hebrewwordlessons.com/2019/10/27/sheol-the-grave-gehenna-hades-hell/   
   >   
   > Thus sheol is the grave   
   > Thus hell is the grave.   
   >   
   > You have been lied to by the churches long enough. Accept the Bible   
   > truth that hell is the GRAVE.Your God is not a sadist that tortures   
   > forever His disobedient children. He really is a God of love. (1 John   
   > 4:8)   
   >   
   > Sincerely James   
   > Can your part   
   > of the earth survive?   
   > 9/18/23   
   > Go to jw.org   
      
      
      I agree with you James. Hell is a heinous lie created by Christianity   
      and has effected nearly every person on earth in a very negative way.   
      
      For myself & my family I'd like to see the skin flayed off of every   
   last christian that has perpetrated this lie and even then that might   
   not be enough to satisfy my anger.   
      
      I said before that burning someone in hell for eternity isn't just   
      but the unjust insist that it is just. Their insistence that it is   
   just reveals the wickedness hiding deep in their own hearts.   
      
      
      So question for them; Why would you assume that you can scare people   
      into the worship of a God wicked enough to send someone to eternal   
      suffering?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)