anyone who genuinely believes that Jesus is God cannot just not take the threat of eternal hell seriously
the people who try to make eternal hell seem like a fine and acceptable alternative to eternal life cannot actually believe that Jesus is God
Except the christians that don't believe in hell
anyone who genuinely believes that Jesus is God cannot just not take the threat of eternal hell seriously
the people who try to make eternal hell seem like a fine and acceptable alternative to eternal life cannot actually believe that Jesus is God
Except the christians that don't believe in hell
Huh, had to look into how the Hell they'd pull something like that off:
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in an immortal soul that survives after physical death. They believe the Bible presents "hell", as translated from "Sheol" and "Hades", to be the common grave for both the good and the bad.
They reject the idea of a place of literal eternal pain or torment as being inconsistent with God's love and justice.
They define "Gehenna" as eternal destruction or the "second death", which is reserved for those with no opportunity of a resurrection such as those who will be destroyed at Armageddon. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that others who have died before Armageddon will be resurrected bodily on earth and then judged during the 1,000-year rule of Christ; the judgement will be based on their obedience to God's laws after their resurrection.
The Christadelphian view is broadly similar to the Jehovah's Witness view, except for the fact that it teaches the belief that the resurrected will be judged for how they lived their lives before the resurrection.
Christian Universalism
Christian Universalism teaches that an eternal Hell does not exist and is a later creation of the church with no biblical support.
Reasoning by Christian Universalists includes that an eternal Hell is against the nature, character and attributes of a loving God, human nature, sin's nature of destruction rather than perpetual misery, the nature of holiness and happiness and the nature and object of punishment.
Unity Church
The Unity Church of Charles Fillmore considers the concept of everlasting physical Hell to be false doctrine and contradictory to that reported by John the Evangelist.
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church believes that the concept of eternal suffering is incompatible with God's character and that He cannot torture His children.
They instead believe that Hell is not a place of eternal suffering, but of eternal death and that death is a state of unconscious sleep until the resurrection.
They base this belief on biblical texts such as Ecclesiastes 9:5 which states "the dead know nothing", and 1 Thessalonians 4:13 which contains a description of the dead being raised from the grave at the second coming. These verses, it is argued, indicate that death is only a period or form of slumber.
Based on verses like Matthew 16:27 and Romans 6:23 they believe the unsaved do not go to any place of punishment as soon as they die, but are reserved in the grave until the day of judgment after the Second coming of Jesus to be judged, either for eternal life or eternal death. This interpretation is called Annihilationism.
