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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a Christian.  I do not believe in hell, at least not in the way people have been coerced into believing.   If you take the time to research the original Biblical text you'll find that nothing like "hell" is ever mentioned in the scripture.    Here's a really easy to read link with some examples.  [url]http://www.thehypertexts.com/no%20hell%20in%20the%20bible.htm[/url]  Do some research on the original meaning of the words that were later translated to mean "hell".  They aren't even close.

The Hell we are warned about today didn't exist in Biblical times.  "Hell" was created by powerful people as a means of control.  Nothing more.    Think about it logically.  If you are a Christian, you know that God is all good.  All loving.  All compassion.  He created you out from an abundance of love.  As your Creator, He/She is incapable of causing you pain.  Is there anything one of your children could do - anything at all -  that would cause you to send him to an eternity of suffering an pain?  God's love for us is even greater than the love we have for our children and for each other.  He is author of love!

Fundamental Christianity is nothing short of religious abuse.  I believe it has damaged many, many people (like the pp who is terrified of hell).  Christianity is wonderful!  Christ was a living example of God's perfect love.  To be a Christian means to be "Christ-like".  What could possibly be better than modeling your life after someone who was kind, compassionate, loving, forgiving, generous, enlightened ....  All things we should strive to be.  Being Christ-like has nothing to do with terrifying people into religious submission.

God is All-good.  All-loving.  All-powerful.  Love.  Light.  Perfection.  Grace.   He created you and wants only your highest and best.  [/quote]

Fundamentalists, who depend solely on the Bible for their beliefs, definitely think Hell is a real place.  How do you account for that, if it's not in the Bible?[/quote]

It's in the Bible that they read.  But if you go back and read scripture before it was translated and retranslated and before powerful people decided what should and should not be included, it's pretty clear that "hell" didn't exist in the way we are taught that it did.  [/quote]
Sorry, no. The Gospels are intact from when they written, in Greek, in the first century. And in them, Jesus discusses Hell numerous times. Yes, he uses some metaphor, but his descriptions of out darkness, weeping and gnashing of teeth, eternal fire, torment, and everlasting conscious destruction should give anyone pause who claims to be a Christian but denies the reality of Hell. Hell is the backdrop of God's love for us. Hell was prepared for Satan and his angels, who rebelled even while in Heaven and fully aware of exactly who God is. Those who reject Christ are afforded this same eternal dwelling place with those who die in their sin without being forgiven by Christ, whose who ultimately cast their lot against God and with this angelic rebellion. It is God's great love for us that caused him to offer His son, Jesus Christ, who is God in the flesh, as a sacrifice for us to save us from this fate.[/quote]

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