Eternal Torment In Hell Doctrine Is Demonic
A loving Father would NEVER, EVER consider inventing a whole new kind of skin, not ever seen before, to allow His precious children, that He gestated and bore, to be tortured mercilessly, time without end. This is the doctrine of demons.
The traditional answers to some of life’s most basic questions are often confusing, because they come from an orthodox point of view. For instance, if you already have a concept of hell, then you have probably gone along with the teaching that those who are sent there are sentenced to forever.
Let’s think carefully about this. Does this traditional teaching of “eternal hell” really make any sense? Would, or could, an all-loving, all-powerful God stand back and watch any of His children spend eternity suffering indescribable agony and torment? Does that really make sense? That sounds like a monster!
Many Bible “scholars” of our day say this is what the Bible teaches.
To the “scholars” of His day Jesus said, “They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. ” Matt. 15:9. Fortunately our lives depend on God’s interpretation, not man’s. “It is written: “`As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, `every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’” Rom. 14:11. Eventually all of God’s children will confess the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
“Bible scholars” of our day argue that Jesus taught one’s stay in hell was an eternal experience. Often quoted is Rev. 14:11, “And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name.” Is this a true representation of the original? Absolutely NOT!!!!! Our loving Father would never require a punishment of “eternal torment” no matter how wicked the sin. He honestly could never even imagine such a horror. This horror story comes directly from the hearts and minds of evil, controlling men.
The “for ever and ever” of Rev. 14:11 is actually a liberal embellishment if not an intentional mistranslation of the Greek aions kai aions. Aion (pronounced ay-on), literally meaning an age, a finite time segment, is often mistranslated eternal or for ever. If the singular form aion is translated eternal (unending), then how are we to understand its plural form, aions? Would aions be successive eternities? That would be plain silly. In Rev. 14:11 the Greek aions of the aions is translated for ever and ever. Can one eternal period of time follow after another? Of course not! It doesn’t take genius to recognize that man once again has interjected his own bias into God’s perfect Word.
Revelation 11:15 says of Jesus, “…He shall reign for ever and ever”.
Yet I Cor. 15:24,25 says, “Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.” Fortunately God’s Word is self-correcting. Paul understood that Christ would reign until He had put all enemies under His feet. Literally the Word declares, “He shall reign unto the ages of ages.” An age is a limited period of time. Many ages are still just several limited periods. These ages may or may not “just keep rolling along”.
To understand these Greek words so often mistranslated “eternal” and “for ever and ever”, picture the horizon. What is beyond the horizon is also beyond your vision. So it is with many applications of time in scripture. When the Greek speaks of a singular age or plural ages the duration is often undefined, as well as unseen (beyond the horizon and therefore beyond one’s vision).
The context of most scripture dealing with “salvation” shows us our heavenly inheritance is in fact unending. However, in the context of God’s all-encompassing love we should understand that no one is destined for Hell eternally. God’s plan is too great for that. Even Lucifer will be restored back to our Father.
“so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” Isa. 55:11.
He will finish the work that He has begun. Phil. 1:6.
Can you think of a better reason to rejoice?
Are we then relieved of our responsibility to reestablish the relationship with our Father, here in this lifetime? When you were born into this world, your memory from the past was wiped clean. It is your responsibility to SEEK OUT your REAL Daddy – the Father of your spirit.
Respond to His call right now! Not because of fear for your future but because of the desire to return to a relationship with Jesus who birthed you. Only He can fill the void. Only by learning about and living His plan for our lives can we understand the purpose and benefits of this our earthly experience. Receive His Word into your heart today. Agree with Him that His way is the right way! His way is the ONLY way that leads to life.
John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; The words I have spoken to you—they are Spirit and life.
Does God’s perfect plan include just some of his children? Or all of His children? Many teach that God calls only a few, while the great majority are pre-destined to eternal judgment. This demon-inspired, man-invented teaching has hindered many from accepting and experiencing the great love our heavenly Father has for each of His children.
Jesus warned that an “enemy man” would sow tares (untruths) among the good wheat (the pure Word of God). Jesus predicted that an enemy would infiltrate His church, planting tares into the teachings of “the church”. The horror filled doctrine of God sentencing His children to burn in torment and fire for ever and ever IS THE DOCTRINE OF DEMONS:
In later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 1 Tim 4:1
SAY NO to these doctrines of demons.
Russell Dibird
+ A very well written companion article, on this subject, by the late Gary Amirault, a fellow Missourian, here: Proof for the Teaching of Christian, Biblical Universalism
+ BOOK: Christian Universalism: God’s Good News for All People Paperback – February 15, 2008
+ CHRISTIAN UNIVERSALISM: THE DOCTRINE OF ULTIMATE RECONCILIATION
+ Progressive Christian Universalism by RICHARD H GOYETTE Author, Theologian Progressive Christian Universalist
They loved Darkness rather then Light.,,,,Choosing,,,,Their Essence
Being formed to be in Oneness with a god, they can see,,,Killing those that Believe in The Invisble Unseen God,,,Whose Oneness is by The Power of The New Creature, Born In The Glory of The Cross.The Old Creation is Gone Forever
My name is Alan Finch. JESUS became my Lord and Saviour in April of 1976.
It is really quite amazing that the majority of Christians actually believe that God is going to torture the majority of the human race in a Lake of Fire for All Eternity. This proves that most Christians really are not comprehending the depth of God’s love for His creation.
I spent several years diligently searching the Scriptures to uncover what really made Biblical sense in regards to God’s true message to us of what really is the Good News of the Gospel of Christ, which I did not properly understand for most of my many years as a Christian.
My 1st 38 years as a Christian, I believed the unscriptural teaching about that there is going to be eternal torment for multitudes and multitudes of people. I then began to seriously question that teaching. I then decided to do an in-depth study of the Bible concerning this issue, and the Scriptures revealed to me that I had believed a horrible lie for all those years.
The Lake of Fire is not a physical Lake of Fire, but is a metaphor for a Spiritual Lake of Fire from God’s Spirit for the purpose of “RESTORATION.” God is a God of “ETERNAL RESTORATION,” not a God of “eternal destruction.”
In Acts 3:21 God promises that there shall be a “RESTORATION” of ALL things! What is there not to understand about this wonderful promise that God has made to us?
The overall theme of the Bible is that God’s ultimate plan for ALL mankind is to restore, not destroy in an eternal Lake of Fire or eternal annihilation!
In John 12:32 JESUS clearly states that He is going to draw ALL people to Himself! Not a portion of mankind, but ALL of mankind.
In John 6:44 JESUS clearly states that nobody can come to Him except the Father draws that person to Him. For those who are true Christians, WE MUST NOT KID OURSELVES IN THE FACT THAT WE ONLY CAME TO JESUS BECAUSE GOD’S SPIRIT DREW US TO JESUS!
In the present, and in the future, God has His own timing when He will draw each individual to Himself.
Addressing the issue of the belief in eternal annihilation, the Lord clearly tells us in Ecclesiastes 3:11 that He has planted eternity in our hearts. God has made us living Spirits. It is impossible for our Spirit to be destroyed.
GOD HAS NOT FAILED IN HIS ORIGINAL PLAN FOR ALL OF MANKIND WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE ETERNAL TORMENT OR ETERNAL ANNIHILATION. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO FAIL IN ANYTHING!
God worked out His plan in past Ages, God is working out His plan in the present Age that we are now living in, and God will work out His plan in future Ages to come.
I have spent the last several years in Biblically expounding in a 32 page document that I have put together on the truth of there being no eternal suffering in a Lake of Fire for anyone. I have just explained the real LOVE of God that today’s Church just simply does not seem to grasp.
After spending several years of diving deep into the Scriptures to uncover the Biblical truth on this subject, I would like to share these Biblical truths with others so that they can experience the same joy that I experienced which set me free from what I had previously believed for most of my life.
If anyone would be interested in a copy of my document, email me at: (candy33alan@aol.com), and I will email you a copy.
I guess my major problem with your article is that we are all not children of God as you state, but only those who believe… John 1:12 “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,”Romans 8:14 &16 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 16 “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.” Paul was addressing the church and not unbelievers. Also John clearly makes a distinction between the two in 1 John 3:10 “By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.” So you see, not all are God’s children. Even Jesus told the Pharisees in John 8:44 that their Father was the devil.
Just because in the end every knee will bow and ever tongue will confess Jesus Christ is Lord, does not in my opinion, mean all will be saved and become His children. But that all will see Him as He is and those who believed in this life will enter into His eternal kingdom, and the rest will be judged. To me and what I believe the scriptures teach consistently, is that narrow is the gate that leads to life and “few” that find it and wide is the gate that leads to destruction and “many” that go in just as Jesus states clearly in Matthew 7.
I can keep going but I won’t. I do lean heavily on the annihilation doctrine though. 😉
Thank you for the article and the opportunity to share my position.
Grace and peace,
Dean
Well received. Yes, in many ancient cosmologies Hell, or its equivalent, is a temporary, and necessary purification and balancing of karma, etc. I agree that any eternal damnation doctrine, or, for that matter, eternal paradise, would effectively negate the meaning and purpose of life and reincarnation.
As an aside, an ancient teaching states that the absolute terror and horror each Mystic/Initiate must face immediately after disincarnation is the total experience of all the ramifications of his/her life… But this goes beyond just “watching” the effects, etc., one must actually LIVE each and every effect, result, consequence, etc., in each other person’s life that was effected by oneself… AS that person, thing, animal, etc…. Like actually feel, think, appreciate, experience etc., all that that person etc. felt and went through because of some action, word, etc.., on the part of the individual… Imagine experiencing everything that you caused in your life time, AS the thing/person you caused it to… AND every other consequence thereafter, I mean EVERYTHING that happened because of every action you made in life… Talk about “hell”… This was a personal hell and necessary purification experience for each individual… And it was/is not eternal in nature or design.
**Indeed, MANY are called.. ALL are called actually, hence our very existence eh??? And “few” may indeed be chosen, at present, yet more will be later, and so on ad infinitum… In an infinite time line, these terms all lose their meaning…
***Hmmmmmm…. and what exactly happens when Satan repents??? Really? For even his hell will not last forever…
** You are also correct in your Greek clarification. If only people knew how much is lost, changed, altered, and confused due to “translation” of the original languages of the bible into English… I tell you true, the Bible is a completely different book when read in its original languages!!!! VERY DIFFERENT!!!!
> one must actually LIVE each and every effect, result, consequence, etc.
OMG, that makes SO MUCH SENSE!!! Oh hell yes!! Otherwise, all the CRAP you caused in other people’s lives is FORGOTTEN/DISMISSED (forgiven/cleansed) with no REAL LESSON being imparted? Ridiculous. How could He possibly pass on such an amazing time for lessons to be learned and absorbed… Yes, spot on, thank you for that excellent insight 🙂
> the Bible is a completely different book when read in its original languages!
Like I admitted before, I have a stone in my head where the “language cassette” was supposed to go… BUT I get the idea, and when one impresses me, it becomes “english” to me. haha…
And it does not stop me from enjoying the work of you guys who where given the whole CD in your language spot/s.
One of the most popular authors who specialize in 1). original languages 2). exposing mr paul and a false teacher. Craig Winn is his name. He makes all his books available free online in pdf AND he publishes hard copies with no premium mark up – he sells them for what they cost him. Here is a copy/paste of the front page of his website: yadayah.com
By understanding these few facts below, hopefully it will lead to a better understanding of a number of questions that the reader may have.
John 6:44 clearly states that nobody can come to JESUS unless the Spirit of God draws them to JESUS. We did not come to JESUS on our own. We only came to JESUS because God’s Spirit drew us to JESUS.
There are billions of people who God’s Spirit never drew them to JESUS. God is not going to sentence billions of people to eternal torment and damnation who never even had the Spirit of God draw them to JESUS.
Even though God created multitude upon multitude of angels, GOD’S DEEP DESIRE WAS TO CREATE A SPECIAL CREATION (THE TRUE CHURCH) THAT WOULD BECOME HIS BRIDE. The past 6,000 years has been for the purpose of preparing a Bride (THE TRUE CHURCH) for CHRIST.
At some point and time in the future, after JESUS and His Bride begin to rule and reign on the Earth, God’s Spirit will fall upon the rest of humanity who has ever lived from the beginning of creation, and will begin His transforming work in them which will restore them back to God (like Adam and Eve in the beginning of creation), and they will live in the Kingdom of God for eternity.
Once we have a good understanding of this part of God’s plan, much of what did not make much sense to us before, begins to cause the pieces of the puzzles to come together and solve what was once so difficult for us to understand.
I have spent several years in putting together a 33 page document on this subject. If anyone would like a copy, email me at: (candy33alan@aol.com) and I will email you a copy.