What will be discussed is a standard Christian doctrine – a doctrine that supposedly is supported by Scripture, but is it? Is it truly supported by the “Scripture” that Messiah and the apostles used and directed us to study in order to grasp absolute truth? (The last sentence is an important key that should be used to determine the fact or fiction of this doctrine as well as all others.)
The specific doctrine in question is often preached with a zeal rivaling anything else pastors and preachers can voice from their pulpits. To the open-minded who possess common sense reasoning and grasp what Scripture really teaches it is also perhaps the most ridiculously warped portrayal of a “loving” god that can possibly be imagined and one reason many people wrongly reject the teachings and legitimacy of Scripture (the Bible). Such people incorrectly believe that this teaching properly describes Biblical doctrine.
This teaching, this fundamental Christian doctrine, this portrayal of God, is the teaching of everlasting, unending condemnation to the fiery pit of “hell.” It is the horrible teaching that the God of the Bible is a sadistic TORTURE god!
Let me state at the start that I was once listed among the adherents of traditional Christianity; therefore, I know what they teach and believe about the subject. I’ve “been there, done that” regarding the belief of “hell.” I am now, for lack of a better term, a Monothestic Messianic - a Bible believer who lets the Bible dictate my faith instead of traditions and who studies that Bible without the shackles of that tradition intimidating me into accepting unscriptural doctrines.
Ok, let us be honest for a moment despite the cries from most Christians and Christian preachers of “heretic,” “damnation awaits you,” and “you will burn in hell." ...
The teaching of “hellfire” IS – most assuredly – more correctly defined as a teaching of eternal, excruciatingly painful TORTURE that labels God as the torturer! And this more accurate description of the doctrine of “hell” is something no Christian leader wishes exposed or discussed. As is often the case, accuracy and truth is often an embarrassment to them. They prefer that their brain numbed, brainwashed, blind-following-the-blind followers do not see the teaching for what it truly is – the ultimate character assassination and defamation of the true God of Scripture – a God that, sadly, most traditional Christians know little about if they accept what is generally spewed forth from most traditional Christian leaders.
The “hell” scenario would tax the creative capabilities of even the most skilled horror film producer. If you’ve ever watched a blood and guts carnage movie, a suspense filled horror “thriller,” or played a scary video game, then you still cannot imagine the infinite terror of eternal TORTURE in “hell” with no hope of it ever ending – billions upon billions upon billions … everlasting years of TORTURE.
A major reason why the teaching of “hell” is so readily accepted by so many is because it is truly beyond the reach of comprehension for the human mind as is the concept of eternity. No matter how hard one tries to imagine it, the total and complete horror of an everlasting existence in the “fires of hell” cannot be adequately grasped.
As strange and convoluted as it seems, not being able to fully grasp the concept is actually a primary reason so many are foolish enough to accept it. The effect is akin to a form of subconscious denial. It is precisely the same scenario regarding how the overwhelming majority of Christians show no apparent fear of the “hell” they accept as truth since they continue to live sinfully even though they believe it exists as a destination for sinners. The incomprehensible nature of the concept – the implicit subconscious denial - does not allow them to really fear something that they cannot actually grasp. For sure, if they could grasp it they obviously would not live such a worldly, carnal, sinful existence during their lives on earth. An exception to this are those who accept the grotesquely unscriptural, Satanic doctrine of "once saved, always saved," since they do not think they can ever loose their "salvation" no matter what they do. Once saved, always saved is the closest thing to the gospel of Satan that exists. It is a wicked, evil, damning doctrine straight from the mind of the evil one.
It is absurd to the extreme and THE ultimate contradiction in terms for anyone with at least a single functioning brain cell to claim that a god who is, on the one hand, infinitely loving, merciful, compassionate, just, and kind will, on other hand, forever torment and keep a person alive and aware in the most painful of circumstances – the agonizing, unfathomable horror of a blistering flesh burning hellfire that never stops and never consumes the flesh it burns, thus, never granting the condemned person any relief. Nevertheless, brainwashed, dull-witted, stiff-necked and arrogant Christian leaders the world over do just that. They attempt to advance the absurdly preposterous idea that God is “loving, just, merciful, and kind” while also claiming He is the most extreme TORTURER imaginable.
Justice? Is it justice to punish someone ETERNALLY for sins they committed in the short span of their life? Even if that person is or was the most heinous human being the world has ever known, his or her bad behavior and sin still only lasted – at most – a few decades, and usually much less. And are we to view it as “just” that endless, torturous punishment is proper “just” payback to such a limited period of sin? Is eternity in "hell" just punishment for a few years of sin? Would enforced payback of billions of dollars be a just punishment for stealing 5 cents?
History is filled with sadistic tyrants such as Hitler, Stalin, the inquisition torturers of the Catholic church and popes who sanctioned it (though Catholics wish us to ignore that), certain Roman emperors, serial killers, etc. They all pale in comparison to the tyrannical rule of the god portrayed in traditional Christianity – a sovereign TORTURE god who will inflict pain beyond imagination FOREVER.
Worse still, according to traditional Christianity a person does not even have to be particularly wicked. All they have to do to earn the torture is to “reject Christ!” So, even the kindest, most loving and giving person in the world, if he or she does not “accept Christ” will end up in everlasting “hellfire” regardless of how good their lifestyle may have been. A perfect example of this is a devout Orthodox or Conservative Jew. I have never in my almost 50 years of life, about 40 of which I was active within the traditional Christian system, seen a Christian whose devotion to God and struggle to live a righteous life pleasing to God can compare to what is present in the life of a devout Jew. Yet, Christian leaders and many Christians would not hesitate to say that a devout Jew is destined to “hellfire” for the simple reason that they do not “accept Christ” even though that Jew’s lifestyle is generally FAR more righteous than theirs.
Yet it gets even worse! Those who are idiotic and deluded enough to accept Calvinism (Reformed theology) believe there is nothing a person can do to change their destination if that destination is hell. The reformed doctrine of “unconditional election” seals one’s fate, and there is nothing that can change that fate.
Calvinists, for many reasons, raise spiritual stupidity to the ultimate level of outrageousness. Yet, there are millions upon millions of apparently brain-dead Christians who fall victim to the demonic teachings of Calvinism or who accept enough of it to classify as at least pseudo-Calvinists. This despite the fact that John Calvin was an egomaniacal monster who championed one of Satan’s greatest deceptions (Calvinism/Reformed Theology) and who was a murderer due to his being primarily responsible for Micheal Servetus being baked at the stake (yes baked alive – not simply burned). And what was Servetus' crime for which he was so brutally punished? Well, he did nothing more than disagree with the wicked self-exalted monster Calvin's Reformed theology and dared to voice his disagreement through correspondence with Calvin. Calvin repaid his disagreement by seeing to it that he was killed, and it is that very Calvin who so many history ignorant Christians hold in high esteem just as they do other Christian "fathers" who committed acts of gross wickedness, most of whom were vehemently anti-Semitic and anti-torah. It is thus no great wonder that Christianity is so fundamentally lawless (lawless = anti-torah) and anti-Semitic.
Is it any wonder that so many people scoff at, or even despise, the god described by traditional Christianity and are, therefore, never drawn to the Bible to seek God? Such people do not have the blinders of tradition affixed to their heads as do Christians. They see the god of TORTURE Christianity promotes as a horrific tyrant – a being who exceeds all levels of despotic behavior – the ultimate murderous and sadistic villain – a god that should be rejected instead of embraced.
Well, this study will examine the doctrine of “hellfire” and, in the process, defend the actual loving Creator from those who promote satanically inspired defamations. I intend to speak up in defense for the loving, benevolent, long suffering, kind, forgiving, and just nature of the TRUE God.
For this study I will primarily utilize the very Scripture that ALL the writers of the New Testament as well as Messiah himself used and told us to use to determine truth. If the “hellfire” doctrine is not present in those Scriptures; then, it should be rejected.
I will show that, indeed, never ending fiery torture in “hell” cannot be proven from those Holy writings. Unlike Christian teachers, I will truly follow the example of the Bereans of Acts 17 who “searched the Scriptures daily …” to determine if what they were told was correct. The Scripture they searched was NOT the New Testament since it did not even exist!
By following the Berean’s example and New Testament authors’ teachings regarding what “Scripture” I should consult I am actually proving myself to be more of a follower of the New Testament – which I do follow and revere – than most traditional Christians. This is a fact that can be readily proven from the very pages of that New Testament! This is a very important point! Every traditional Christian preacher, pastor, or apologist I have ever read or heard will do the following:
The facts are:
In short, virtually all Christians violate the very Bible they claim to follow, and they violate it in the most basic, fundamental way by falsely defining “Scripture” or, at the very least, intentionally misleading people regarding the level of importance portions of Scripture hold. Their very definition and/or ranking of “Scripture” is a direct violation of the Scriptural definition of Scripture.
It doesn’t get any more basic than that. If a person reads the wrong instruction book he or she will never get the correct instructions, and Christian leaders purposely and willfully direct people to the wrong instruction book or deceptively lead them away from realizing the ULTIMATE importance of the Tanakh and, most notably, the torah. No doubt the devil laughs with joy as he watches Christian leaders turn mankind away from God’s Holy instructions.
The aforementioned points are incontrovertible details that Christian pastors, apologists, and leaders purposely oppose. They also often condemn those of us who, unlike them, actually follow the instructions of the New Testament authors who taught us to use the Tanakh, NOT THE NEW TESTAMENT, as the basis for our core, fundamental beliefs. It is a dramatic irony that those like myself truly do follow the direction of the New Testament authors while most Christians and Christian leaders do not even as they slanderously, ferociously, and with hateful calls of damnation accuse us of being anti-New Testament or counter missionary.
The simple fact is this: most Christian leaders, because of Christianity’s foundational anti-Semitic and lawless roots, secretly DESPISE the teachings of the Tanakh. They literally hate those eternal instructions since they so often contradict their beastly falsehoods. A primary thrust of the Christian teaching is aimed at opposing what God instructs through the Tanakh. This is particularly true of the Scriptural teachings to revere torah (law) since Christianity is a fundamentally anti-torah, lawless (against God’s eternal law) religious system that was largely created under Roman rule, the ancient bitter enemy of Israel, to rid mankind of God’s eternal torah.
They also do not truly “follow Christ.” Proof that Christians and Christian leaders do not actually follow Christ while those like myself do is the subject of an entire article, and the material in that article is unassailable proof of the antichrist, mark of the beast foundations of traditional Christian theology.
So stay tuned. I intend to present my defense of God as I rebuke the Satan inspired blasphemously slanderous teaching that the Eternal Father is a horribly coldhearted eternal torturer. By so doing, I will show how traditional Christians have been duped by the true villains - their blind, lawless promoting, and stiff-necked leaders.