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Bible Translations That Do Not Teach Eternal Torment

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How could the Creator be so thoughtless, and > not warn millions of people of a fate they did not even know awaited them? >

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on 2007-12-09 by stech1

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 by stech1

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.

As I mentioned earlier, a loving Creator would trumpet the war

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marvelling that these Jewish scholars were not ashamed to tell the world they were not perfect and therefore could not produce an inerrant translation

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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.

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Our minds have been doctrinally contaminated by traditions much more than perhaps we are willing to admit.

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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!

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If the Creator loved us and created such a horrible place for most of mankind, he would surely have plastered the warning everywhere.

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No, Sheol is the grave. Very simple and very plain.

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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.

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"Hell" cannot even be found in the Old Testament in dozens of English translations, many of which are accepted by mainstream conservative churches.

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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.

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In the New Testament, three words were translated into "hell" by the King James translators:

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Hades

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Gehenna

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Tartarus

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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.

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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!

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Paul, the apostle to the nations, never used the word "hell" once?

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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!

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King James Bible because of political reasons, not because of a love of the Creator.

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Over 350 English translations of the New Testament have been marketed to date.

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Pastors will push those translations which work for them the most.

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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.

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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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