> on a slightly unrelated note, the now traditional concept of hell as a
> place of eternal damnation, pain, suffering, fire, brimstone, blah blah
> blah.. is never actually mentioned in the bible as that. Instead it is
> merely, a place where people who dont want to be with God go and do their
> own thing(and for some the abscence of God is quite terrifying). And the
> hell of fire and little red devils came about from an association with
> Gehenna (a place outside Jerusalem i believe where garbage was burned).
>
> can anyone back me up on this? or at least point out the errors of that, i
> have yet to find the source where i first learned about this.
Here are some quotes from the book of revelations. I guess i am headed for a
messy and protracted end!!! Maybe I should change my mind - NOT
rev 19:20 But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had
performed the miraculous
signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had
received the mark of the beast
and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the
fiery lake of burning sulfur.
rev 20:10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning
sulfur, where the beast and
the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and
night for ever and ever.
rev 20:14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of
fire is the second death
rev 20:15 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was
thrown into the lake of fire.
rev 21:8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the
sexually immoral, those who practice
magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the
fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is
the second death."
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