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show
me someone who's under divine punishment forever, or who is simply
annihilated,
and I'll show you someone who's never reconciled to God through Christ,
and thus someone who gives the lie to this passage.
this passage says that all shall be
made
alive.
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- What universalism does
  commit
  one to is that such punishment won't last forever.
- "universalism" refers to the
  position
  that eventually all human beings will be saved and will enjoy
  everlasting
  life with Christ.

09 Dec 07

Universalism, the Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During its First Five Hundred Years

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doctrine hell universalism bible and extra books

How could the Creator be so thoughtless, and
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not warn millions of people of a fate they did not even know awaited them?
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- This is s agood point. Proponents of the doctrine of hell would appeal to 1 Peter 3: 18-20 here. They would say that this problem was resolved after Christ died and went to sheol and preached to those who were held there because of their disobedience.
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- This is s agood point. Proponents of the doctrine of hell would appeal to 1 Peter 3: 18-20 here. They would say that this problem was resolved after Christ died and went to shoel and preached to those who were held there because of their disobedience.
  - on 2007-12-09
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The doctrines of fear
and demons entered the church in full force when Constantine made Christianity
the religion of the Roman Empire. When the political system of Rome merged
with the heirarchial structure of the church, the death knoll sounded. The
church became full of unconverted pagans who brought their pagan ideas with
them. The church absorbed them and it died. Dark ages. . millions of people
killed in the name of Christ. Fear and the doctrines of fear and of demons
again controlled the world. The pagan doctrine of eternal torment was added
to the Latin Vulgate.
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- The fear of eternal punishment in the afterlife
  has been a doctrine pagan religions used for centuries before Christianity
  came on the scene.
- Pastors
  will push those translations which work for them the most.
- Over 350 English translations of the New Testament
  have been marketed to date.
- King James
  Bible because of political reasons, not because of a love of the Creator.
- n 1851 the American Bible
  Society compared six different editions of the King James Bible and discovered
  over 24,000 variations between the editions of the same Bible translation!
- Paul, the apostle to the nations, never used the word "hell"
  once?
- Most translations that mention
  it at all, mention it only 12 to 14 times, the King James being the King
  of Hell mentioning only it 22 times in the New Testament, not even once
  per book!
- The concept of evil men going to a place of
  torment after death first appeared in Jewish apocryphal writings of 3 to
  1 B.C.
- Tartarus
- Gehenna
- Hades
- In the New Testament, three words were translated
  into "hell" by the King James translators:
- We believe as we get closer to the original languages of the Bible,
  that that awful word "hell" will totally disappear from the pages of Scripture.
- "Hell" cannot even be found in the Old Testament in dozens of English translations,
  many of which are accepted by mainstream conservative churches.
- Please note if Jonah was
  in "hell," as the KJV has it, then Jonah escaped from a place where,
  according to modern theologians, there is no escape.
- No, Sheol is the grave. Very simple and
  very plain.
- If the Creator
  loved us and created such a horrible place for most of mankind, he would
  surely have plastered the warning everywhere.
- It would seem that if, according
  to Christendom's doctrines, 90% or more of mankind will end up in eternal
  torment that the gates of hell will prevail, and mightily!
- Our minds have been doctrinally contaminated
  by traditions much more than perhaps we are willing to admit.
- Abraham, Moses, David, and
  all the rest of the peoples of the Old Testament only knew one place where
  all people went, good or bad . . . Sheol, the grave, the place of the departed.
- marvelling that these Jewish scholars were not ashamed to tell
  the world they were not perfect and therefore could not produce an inerrant
  translation