THESE ARE THE PASSAGES MODERN EVANGELICALS IGNORE ...
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John 12:47 ... "If anyone hears my words and does NOT keep them, I DO NOT JUDGE HIM; for I did NOT come to judge the WORLD but to save the WORLD."
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Romans 11:32 ... "He has shut ALL up in unbelief to show mercy on ALL."
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Luke 3:6 ... "ALL flesh shall see God's salvation."
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Ephesians 1:10 ..."ALL come into Him at the fullness of times."
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1 Timothy 2:6 ... "Salvation of ALL is testified in due time."
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John 12:32 ... "Jesus will draw ALL mankind unto Himself."
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Jeremiah 31:33-34 ... "ALL men will know GOD, from the greatest to the least."
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2 Cor 5:14. ... "We are convinced that one died for ALL, and therefore ALL DIED."
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Romans 3:3-4 ... "The unbelief of some will not nullify God's faithfulness."
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Psalms 145:14 ... "He raises ALL WHO FALL."
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ll Peter 3:9 ... "ALL come to repentance"
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1 Timothy 2:4 ..."Who will have ALL men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."
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Hebrews 8:11 ... "ALL will know God"
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Colossians 1:20 ... "ALL reconciled unto God."
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1 John 2:2 ... "He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and NOT ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (He will get what He paid for).
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Romans 5:18 ... "Just as one man's trespass led to condemnation of ALL, so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life of ALL."
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Lamentations 3:31 ... "For no one is cast off by the Lord forever."
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Samuel 14:4 ... "But God will not take away a life; He will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from His presence."
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2 Corinthians ... "Through Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself."
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Psalms 65:2 ... "To You (God) ALL flesh shall come."
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Luke 15:4 ... "If ANY stray, He goes after that which is lost until He finds it."
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John 3:35 ... "The Father has given ALL into His hands"
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John 6:39 ... "This is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing, but raise them up.
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Philippians 2:9-11 ... "Every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord."(In 1 Cor 12:3 Paul writes that no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit)
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ACTS 10:28 ... "But God has shown me that I should not call ANYONE impure or unclean."
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John 17:2 ... "He has authority over ALL flesh to give eternal life."
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Psalm 33:15 ..."God fashions ALL hearts."
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John 6:37 ... "Everything that God has given to Christ will come to Him."
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Psalms 22:27 ... "ALL the ends of the earth and ALL the families of the nations will acknowledge God."
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Titus 2:11 ... "For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people."
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Colossians 3:11 ... "but Christ is all, and in all."
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If God is love and love never fails… can love ever give up on a soul ?
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I love the story of how Jesus went to SHEOL/HADES and PREACHED to those who were DEAD.
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Peter identifies them as the DEAD from the time of Noah.
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Peter 3:19-20 ..."He went and preached to the spirits in prison who
DISOBEYED long ago when God waited patiently IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, while
the ark was being built."
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WHAT DID HE PREACH ?
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Peter 4:6 ... "The GOOD NEWS was preached to those who are now dead -
so although they were destined to die like all people, THEY NOW LIVE
FOREVER WITH GOD IN THE SPIRIT."
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THAT'S MY GOD !! - He's the same yesterday, today, and FOREVER.
________________________________Now let's review what the modern American Church believes.
According to the PEW Research Center in 2015, only 31% of the world's population is Christian.
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Mission Frontiers Magazine has estimated that only 11% of the world's population is actually Christian.
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Billy Graham is noted for saying that only 15% of the Church is actually SAVED.
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The late great David Wilkerson repeatedly said most of the world will indeed go to hell.
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Sadly, modern Christians have more faith in people going to hell than they do in the SAVING power of Christ.
The modern church often quotes Habakkuk 1:13 "GOD CAN NOT LOOK UPON SIN" .... But they leave out the very next sentence ... "So why does He ?"
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The
call to be an "imitator of God" is a bit scary when we consider that
many see God as an angry, vengeful tyrant who can't look upon sin.
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If most of humanity burns for all eternity ... that would mean evil ultimately wins more people than God. - I'm just saying, if most of the population goes to hell, HOW IS THAT CONSIDERED A VICTORY FOR GOD ?
Would a loving parent ever think about condemning their child to an eternity of Fire & torture, simply for not returning their love ? THAT WOULD BE A REALLY BAD PARENT.
Why would God create the human race if He knew beforehand that most would be destroyed in hell ? I'm sorry but NONE OF THIS matches the character of the God I have come to know.
Instead
of portraying GOD as a loving Father ... the modern Church is
portraying God as a sadistic, narcissist, who is bi-polar.
THE MODERN GOSPEL AT WORK.
The GOOD NEWS is that the DOOM & GLOOM is wrong !! EXTREMELY WRONG !!
Is infinite punishment for finite error truly just—or a distortion of divine coherence ?
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Of the TOP 3 major world religions ... two of them teach eternal torment in hell. (Christianity & Islam).
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Judaism has never believed in a fiery place of eternal torment ... WHY ?
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The concept was never taught to them in the Torah. THINK ABOUT IT ...The Jews were in covenant with God for 4 thousand years as His "chosen people"... of whom ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WOULD BE BLESSED - and yet God never mentioned anything to them about hell ... To this day, the Jews reject the concept of hell and LAUGH AT IT as a Pagan belief from ancient Babylon and Greek mythology ... so why would Jesus (a Jew) believe in Hell ?? - That's what I'm here to discuss.
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How did Christianity end up with the HELL doctrine ? What does this doctrine say about how we see ourselves—and is it aligned with love ?
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The translators (scribes) retained the Pagan "after-life" folklore culture of ancient Rome and Greece.
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In reading the history, it becomes evident how the Greek and Latin scribes held on to some of their pagan beliefs.
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FOR A BRIEF OVERVIEW on what has been called "Hell" ... We find the original words Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus.
FOR A BRIEF OVERVIEW on what has been called "Hell" ... We find the original words Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus.
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Sheol is the Hebrew word
for "the grave." (Abraham's Bossom) The ancient Jews described Sheol as a "resting place," and "holding place"
until their Messiah came to resurrect them.
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HADES is the Greek version of Sheol ... But this word comes straight from Pagan Greek mythology and is therefore not an accurate description of Sheol.
The Latin scribes took it a step further by REPLACING both words (Sheole & Hades) with HELL to retain their own Pagan version of the after-life ... adding fire, torture & torment to the meaning. The word HELL comes from NORSE mythology.
By the time of the first "official" Bible (known as the Latin Vulgate), the Vatican was it's own state run religion.This
corrupt religious government radically CHANGED the wording of the
original Hebrew manuscripts to
instill FEAR ... so it could control and manipulate the poor peasants who were unable to read and write.
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The armies of the Roman Catholic Church went on to dominate the European landscape ... and for over a thousand years they persecuted and PROSECUTED people by
means of burning them alive, disembowelment, beheading, drowning, and
torture, forcing people into submission to the Pagan beliefs of the
Roman Catholic Church.
On top of that, the Church of England used the same corrupt Latin manuscripts in the development of it's own Bible ... and eventually, even the King James Bible was developed from the same Latin Vulgate manuscripts.
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Gehenna
In the Hebrew culture "Gehenna" was known as the valley of
Hinnom (outside the city walls of Jerusalem). It was known as a defiled place ... and was used for burning garbage and cremating the bodies of dead criminals and the poor. And once again, the Latin translators replaced "Gehenna" with HELL.
Let's dig into this ...
Gehenna (/ɡɪˈhɛnə/, /ɡəˈhɛnə/[1]) or Gehinnom (literally translated as "Valley of Hinnom") is a small valley in Jerusalem. In the Hebrew Bible, Gehenna was initially where some of the kings of Judah sacrificed their children by fire. (See Jeremiah 19) Therefore, it was deemed to be cursed (Book of Jeremiah 7:31, 19:2–6).[3]
In rabbinic literature, Gehinnom is not Hell. Although the King James version of the Bible misleadingly translated it with the Anglo-Saxon word (Hell) ... "The Valley of Hinnom" is the valley surrounding Jerusalem's Old City, from the west and south. It meets and merges with the Kidron Valley, near the southeastern corner of the city.
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Because the words Gehinnom / Gehenna were REPLACED with "Hell", it has often been
said that Jesus preached on "Hell" more than any other topic ... However, that is
not an accurate statement. Jesus was constantly warning the Jews about the coming destruction of Jerusalem (70AD), telling them that if
they did not flee to the mountains, their bodies would end up in
"Gehenna," the literal trash heap outside the city wall. This was a direct warning to
the apostate Jews in Jerusalem.
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NOTICE how the following verses from the original Greek, make no mention of HELL whatsoever.
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Matthew 23:33, to the Pharisees: "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how shall you to escape the sentence of Gehenna?"
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Mark 9:45: "It is better for you to enter life lame, than having your two feet, to be cast into Gehenna."
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Mark 9:47: "It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into Gehenna."
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Matthew 5:22: "....whoever shall say, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into Gehenna."
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Matthew 23:15: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
because you... make one proselyte...twice as much a child of Gehenna as
yourselves."
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Matthew 5:30: "....better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to go into Gehenna."
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Matthew 10:28: "....rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna."
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Matthew 18:9: "It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than with two eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna...."
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Mark 9:43: "It is better for you to enter life crippled, than having your two hands, to go into Gehenna into the unquenchable fire."
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Luke 12:5: "... fear the One who has authority to cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, fear Him."
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Matthew 5:30: "....better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to go into Gehenna."
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Matthew 10:28: "....rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna."
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Matthew 18:9: "It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than with two eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna...."
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Mark 9:43: "It is better for you to enter life crippled, than having your two hands, to go into Gehenna into the unquenchable fire."
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Luke 12:5: "... fear the One who has authority to cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, fear Him."
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Jeremiah 19 told us exactly what would happen in Gehenna:
6. Therefore, beware, the day is coming, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor "The valley of Hinnom," but "The valley of slaughter."
7. And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem IN THIS PLACE; and I will cause them to FALL BY THE SWORD before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their CARCASSES will I give to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.
8. And I (God) will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9. And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
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War 5.12.3-4
"Now every one of these died with their eyes fixed upon the temple, and left the seditious alive behind them. Now the seditious at first gave orders that the dead should be buried out of the public treasury, as not enduring the stench of their dead bodies. But afterwards, when they could not do that, they had them cast down from the walls into the valleys beneath." 4. However, when Titus, in going his rounds along those valleys, saw them full of dead bodies, and the thick putrefaction running about them, he gave a groan; and, spreading out his hands to heaven, called God to witness that this was not his doing; and such was the sad case of the city itself."
6. Therefore, beware, the day is coming, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor "The valley of Hinnom," but "The valley of slaughter."
7. And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem IN THIS PLACE; and I will cause them to FALL BY THE SWORD before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their CARCASSES will I give to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.
8. And I (God) will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9. And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
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The Jewish historian Josephus recorded the devastation of Gehenna ...
War 5.12.3-4
"Now every one of these died with their eyes fixed upon the temple, and left the seditious alive behind them. Now the seditious at first gave orders that the dead should be buried out of the public treasury, as not enduring the stench of their dead bodies. But afterwards, when they could not do that, they had them cast down from the walls into the valleys beneath." 4. However, when Titus, in going his rounds along those valleys, saw them full of dead bodies, and the thick putrefaction running about them, he gave a groan; and, spreading out his hands to heaven, called God to witness that this was not his doing; and such was the sad case of the city itself."
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TARTARUS
In Greek mythology, the realm of Hades is the misty and gloomy abode where all mortals go when they die. No mortals could leave Hades once they entered. In
Hades, there is a variety of unique forms of punishment for each
individual person ... and several levels including Elysium, the Asphodel
Meadows, and Tartarus.
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Interestingly, in 2 Peter 2:4 ... we find the Greek word Tartarus is used.
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"For God did not spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into
Tartarus to be kept in chains and darkness until
judgment."
“Tartarus” in 2 Peter 2:4
“For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into Tartarus and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness…”
Tartarus is a word from Greek mythology.
In Greek cosmology, Tartarus is a deep, dark pit below Hades ... a prison for gods and powerful beings who rebelled.
It’s not a Hebrew or Jewish idea.
It appears in 2 Peter because the New Testament was written in Greek, and the writers used Greek cultural terms that their audience would understand.
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The Jewish Bible (Tanakh) stays true to Hebrew and Aramaic language, so it uses “Gehinnom” as the native term for spiritual cleansing or judgment.
“Gehinnom” is closer to the original Jewish spiritual view because it comes from Hebrew language and tradition.
“Gehinnom” means cleansing fire, not endless pain ... which fits the idea that all mistakes can be fixed and clarity can be restored.“Tartarus” often brings up ideas of mythic punishment, which can make people afraid.
The Simple Truth ... By translating Gehinnom to Tartarus, the Latin translators shifted the meaning from a specific geographical place of judgment to a mythological realm of punishment.
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Latin Vulgate Bible translated Gehinnom as Tartarus, altering the original
Hebrew meaning and incorporating elements from Greco-Roman mythology.
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This change reflects the blending of cultural narratives, where early Christians adapted Jewish concepts to resonate with the Greco-Roman worldview.
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FROM: Wikipedia ...
"In the New Testament, Tartarus as a place (a noun), does NOT occur. However, the verb tartaroō (as in "to cast down") is used as a shortened form of the classical Greek verb kata-tartaroō (casting down to Tartarus"). This does appear in 2 Peter 2:4 as a figure of speech, to describe the defeat of demonic forces.
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In classical texts, the longer form kata-tartaroo is often related to the "throwing of the Titans down to Tartarus."
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Methodist theologian Adam Clarke (1762-1832) once stated ... "The ancient Greeks
appear to have received an account of the punishment of
the 'fallen angels,' and their poets did in
conformity I presume, with that account, make Tartarus the place where
the giants who rebelled against Jupiter, and the souls of the wicked,
were confined."
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The Latin scribes did us no favor by replacing Sheol, Hades, Gehenna & Tartarus with HELL. It
is a completely FALSE notion, and very misleading. Those Pagan beliefs
that were inserted have become a deeply embedded stumbling block for
Christianity... which is why their modern message does not resemble the
God they talk about.
Number of times the word ‘Hell’ occurs in the following Bible Versions
| Year AD | BIBLE VERSION | OT | NT | Total |
| 400 | The Latin Vulgate | 86 | 24 | 110 |
| 1611 | King James Version | 31 | 23 | 54 |
| 1884 | Hanson’s New Covenant | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| 1891 | Young’s Literal Translation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1900 | Twentieth Century New Testament | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| 1901 | American Standard Version | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 1902 | Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1903 | Weymouth’s New Testament | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| 1917 | Jewish Publication Society Bible OT | 0 | n/a | 0 |
| 1942 | Emphatic Diaglott Greek/English Int. | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| 1952 | Revised Standard Version | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| 1976 | Restoration of Original Sacred Name | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | New International Version | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 1982 | New King James Version | 19 | 13 | 32 |
| 1983 | Concordant Literal NT | n/a | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | Tanakh/The Complete Jewish Bible | 0 | n/a | 0 |
| 2004 | Holman Christian Standard Bible | 0 | 12 | 12 |
Here is a list of Bibles that do NOT contain the word HELL ...
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Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Scarlett's N.T. (1798)
The New Testament in Greek and English (Kneeland, 1823)
Young's Literal Translation (1891)
Twentieth Century New Testament (1900)
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (reprinted, 1902)
Fenton's Holy Bible in Modern English (1903)
Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech (1903)
The New Testament, James Moffat, (1917)
Jewish Publication Society Bible Old Testament (1917)
Panin's Numeric English New Testament (1914)
The New Testament, Charles B. Williams, 1937
The People's New Covenant (Overbury, 1925)
Hanson's New Covenant (1884)
Western N.T. (1926)
NT of our Lord and Savior Anointed (Tomanek, 1958)
Concordant Literal NT (1983)
The N.T., A Translation (Clementson, 1938)
Emphatic Diaglott, Greek/English Interlinear (Wilson, 1942)
New American Bible (1970)
Restoration of Original Sacred Name Bible (1976)
Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, Old Testament (1985)
The New Testament, A New Translation (Greber, 1980)
Christian Bible (1991)
World English Bible (in progress)
Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha [NT Only]
Original Bible Project (Dr. James Tabor, still in translation)
Zondervan Parallel N.T. in Greek and English (1975)**
Int. NASB-NIV Parallel N.T. in Greek and English (1993)**
A Critical Paraphrase of the N.T. by Vincent T. Roth (1960)
New Testament, Recovery Version, Living Stream Ministry, 1991
New American Bible Revised Edition (NABRE) Roman Catholic
Holy Bible In Its Original Order, Fred R. Coulter, 2007
Etymological N.T. (An Ultra Literal Translation, 2011, Michael Wine
Aramaic Peshitta New Testament, 2006, Janet M. Magiera
MirrorWord N.T. (Francois du Toit) still in translation
THE BIBLE ITSELF ADMITS THAT THE WRITTEN WORD HAS BEEN COMPROMISED BY SCRIBES ...
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Jeremiah 8:8 ... "How can you say, 'we are wise, for we have the law of the Lord,' when actually the LYING PEN of the scribes has HANDLED IT FALSELY."
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Jeremiah 23:36 ... "For ye have PERVERTED THE WORDS of the living God, the Lord of hosts."
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Later
on, entire verses were ADDED into the LATIN based bibles. Here are just
some of the verses that were ADDED later by Latin scribes (not found in
the original Greek) ...
MARK 16:17-18 , LUKE 24:51 , JOHN 7:53 , JOHN 8:12 , 1 JOHN 5:7
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It
proves problematic when modern Christians substitute their trust in God
with trusting in Bibles and interpretations of Bibles.
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Meanwhile, Christ Himself is the LIVING WORD (never changing). He alone is the key that makes it all come together.
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Many early Christian mystics (e.g., Origen) taught apokatastasis: the eventual restoration of all souls.
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What is the difference between "Universalism" and "Ultimate
Reconciliation" ???
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Historically,
the early Christians practiced and believed in "Ultimate
Reconciliation", and this is easily proven historically :
* Four of the six
schools that taught theology during the first 5 centuries after Christ -
all taught "Ultimate Reconciliation." Those schools were: Caesarea,
Nisbis, Alexandria, and Antioch. Look them up.
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1 Timothy 2:6 is only ONE of MANY verses that declare a salvation for
ALL. This verse plainly endorses a "Ultimate Reconciliation" by using
the word ALL, with nothing in context referring to it being CONDITIONAL
upon any acts or requirements. This verse also endorses a "coming age"
inference by stating: "Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified
in DUE TIME."
* Is the word
"Cosmos" describing a select few in: "God was in Christ, reconciling
the COSMOS to Himself, not counting men's sins against them" ?? Once
again, there is nothing in context separating one man from another, nor
is it CONDITIONAL.
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Christianity will agree with half a verse that says in Adam "all" die.
You can't get anymore "universal" than that ! However, the second half
of the verse states that in Christ the SAME ALL are going to live,
meaning the same (everyone) are going to live in Him.
* Death never stopped God from redeeming fallen man.
* Since His love NEVER fails, and His mercy endures FOREVER, how can anyone think this only applies to Christians ?
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