Hell

by jehu 8 Replies latest jw friends

  • jehu
    jehu

    What really is Hell?

    The Watchtower describe it as nothing but the common grave. In some places in the Bible it is decribed as fiery. Now the Catholics are not sure, what hell is. Is it fiery? Is it cold? they are not sure. What the Catholics are sure off, is it is a place of iternal punishment. Not that one's soul is tormented day and night by the fires of hell, but the sould of an individual is separted from God or from Jehovah. It can be that their soul lingers around and cannot "come back to God" (that is if youunderstand the soul as the spirit or the "breath of life".

    The Watchtower is worst than the Roman Catholics - Watchtower is infallable, no matter how many times they missed the date of the end. For present JW now, I sincerly am sorry for you. You spend 5 hours a week studying the Watchtower publications, you spend "x" number of hours proselating or supposed to be teaching the word of God, but you are missing in one important thing that Jesus reminded you of before he died. That is "show love with one another. Whow love to your enemies " In the final judgement - people, all the people that had and will ever walked on Earth will face the final judge, and only one creteria will be measured - did you "feed Jesus, when you saw him hungry? did you clothed him when you see him naked, did you visited him in prison?" or where you too busy studying the Watchtower that you missed him.

    We have to do good because it is good to do good, not because we will get eternal life. If the Catholics are correct that "Hell" is being away from Jehovah, I am afreaid many people are in Hell right now.

  • bigwilly
    bigwilly

    My hell was being stuck in a room (work) with 2 fundamentalist Christians arguing Bible topics all day

    Big Willy

  • coolhandluke
    coolhandluke
    My hell was being stuck in a room (work) with 2 fundamentalist Christians arguing Bible topics all day

    Im going to have to go with Willy here. I think I am over talking about God. Truly, I don't get anywhere and come no closer to enlightenment. It just is as it is.

  • xjwms
    xjwms

    Could it be that we all have....

    our own type of

    HELL ??

  • TopHat
    TopHat
    Now the Catholics are not sure, what hell is. Is it fiery? Is it cold? they are not sure. What the Catholics are sure off, is it is a place of iternal punishment. Not that one's soul is tormented day and night by the fires of hell, but the sould of an individual is separted from God or from Jehovah.

    I didn't know the Catholic church had changed it's stand on hell? Interesting thought

  • Sad emo
    Sad emo
    If the Catholics are correct that "Hell" is being away from Jehovah, I am afreaid many people are in Hell right now.

    If Jehovah is omnipresent - is it possible for there to be any place where He isn't?

    Could it just be possible that we 'make' our own Hell - that being the case, we don't notice that Jehovah is there?

    (emo is now having a serious case of and going away to think hard for the rest of the night )

  • Finally-Free
    Finally-Free
    What really is Hell?

    When I think of hell the first thing that comes to mind is a large room with phlegm or vomit coloured carpets. It's filled with purple chairs, only half of which have armrests. There are no windows, just a stage at the front, with a podium. Music is playing in the background, and the songs remind me of kindergarten. The cries of children being beaten in the washroom adds a little life to the background music. The room is populated with men in cheap polyester suits and women in flowery dresses. All have smiles on their faces, and I am amazed that these people can lie, gossip, and chastise one another while still maintaining these fake, plastic smiles. The stench of cheap perfume is enough to make a pig start gagging. A few elders slowly move about the room, and suddenly stop and remain still, apparently for no reason, but their purpose is obvious to anyone who is still capable of thinking independently - they are eavesdropping on the conversations of others, in their continuous quest for additional dirt on their brothers and sisters. An elder stands at the podium with his plastic smile and lobotomy eyes, and admonishes the congregation to obey, obey, OBEY the cult. And learn to stop thinking...

    W

  • bigwilly
    bigwilly

    Could it be that we all have....

    our own type of

    HELL ??

    Ever read the "Incarnations of Immortality" series by Piers Anthony? Very interestinf reading, I haven't read in awhile but the book on God "And Eternity" stuck with me, where you went in your afterlife was dependant on where you believed you were going.

    Big Willy

  • jaffacake
    jaffacake

    JEHU

    A very WARM WELCOME and I enjoyed reading your wise words.

    The best thoughts I have read on this (and other) topics are contained in a used book I bought on Amazon: What the Bible Really Teaches, by Keith Ward. I recommend it most highly.

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