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   From: novalidemail@ymail.com   
      
   On 9/28/2023 1:06 PM, No one wrote:   
   > On Sep 28, 2023, Rod wrote   
   > (in article ):   
   >   
   >> 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-geh   
   nna-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?   
   >   
   > There is a case to be made for "Scaring the hell out of them", ;)\   
      
       It is far from necessary and not at all just. You can scare   
       away those who have a sincere interest. There is NO justification   
       for cruelty and wickedness and both are demonstrated in your hellish   
       doctrine of hell.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)