That is just .. well, weird
Christians believe that everyone who lives will meet God. There will be a ‘Day of Judgement’ when all humanity will come into God’s presence. Every person will have to give an explanation for all they thought, said and did – the successes and the failures. Jesus Christ made it clear that everyone’s behaviour – particularly towards the poor and vulnerable – will be laid bare before God.
Heaven and hell are very real. Jesus taught that the righteous go to heaven, and the wicked go to hell.
Hell is a place of sorrow and torment. This truth is seen throughout the Bible in the Old and New Testaments. The Bible clearly and explicitly teaches that hell is a real place to which the wicked/unbelieving are sent after death. Hell is this infinite and eternal death which we have earned because of our sin. Christ talked a great deal about this subject. He describes “Gehenna” as a place where “their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44, 46, 48). He spoke several times about weeping and gnashing of teeth for those who are “cast into outer darkness” (Matthew 8:12, 13:42, 22:13, 24:51, 25:30). He also gives the parable about inhabiting a “place of torment” (Luke 16:28)
Sounds to me as if you are telling us that worms have 'eternal life' - Isaiah 66:24; Mark 9:48 ___________
What the birds don't finish off the worms will eat.
Remember in Bible times, Bible speak, the most through means of destruction was represented by: fire.
Jesus was using fire in an illustrative way to mean complete destruction.
Please notice Psalms 92:7; Psalms 104:35 because the wicked are : destroyed forever.
The choice is ' repent ' or ' perish' ( be destroyed ) at 2 Peter 3:9.
The illustrative story at Luke 16:28 is just that; a parable or illustration story. Not a real happening.
Yes, agree heaven and hell are real.
Can you think of anyone righteous who on the day he died went to hell _________
I find at Acts of the Apostles 2:27 the day Jesus died he went to hell, biblical hell.
If 'biblical hell' is as you posted above then dead Jesus would still be in hell.
Because the 'Bible's hell' is simply mankind's temporary stone-cold grave then yes, at death people go to hell.
Not to some 'religious-myth hell' of burning forever, but to sleep. (even the word cemetery means sleeping place)
Jesus and the OT both teach Not pain but both teach ' sleep in death '.
- John 11:11-14; Psalms 6:5; Psalms 13:3; Psalms 115:17; Isaiah 38:18; Ecclesiastes 9:5 - the dead know nothing.
Please notice Revelation 20:13-14 because everyone in biblical helll/grave is 'delivered up' (meaning resurrected out of hell/grave) then emptied-out biblical hell is cast vacant into that symbolic ' second death ' for vacated hell.
Matthew 13:40-42 is part of Jesus' parable illustration about the figurative wheat and weed/tares.
Again, in Jesus' day fire stood for destruction.
Gehenna was a garbage pit where thing were destroyed forever. Wicked destroyed forever - Psalms 92:7
When King James translated the word Gehenna into English as hell fire that put the flames in the grave.
Please notice at Matthew 25:41 that symbolic everlasting fire is for: Satan and demonic angels.
Sinner Satan will be ' destroyed ' by Jesus - Hebrew 2:14 B; Romans 16:20
No wicked sinner ever gains everlasting life anywhere, just: destruction - Psalms 104:35.
The wicked will be No more according to Psalms 37:10-11; Psalms 37:38; Proverbs 2:21-22
Yes, there is a Day of Judgement or Judgement Day and that coming 'day' is still future according to Acts of the Apostles 24:15 that ' there will be' a resurrection......
That ' Day of Judgement ' is Jesus' coming Millennium-Long Day of Judgement.
Jesus' Thousand-Year Day when Jesus governs over Earth in righteousness for one-thousand years.
So, what a person does 'after' they are resurrected will determine one's everlasting life.
Remember: the majority of mankind lived and died without knowing about Jesus. - John 3:13
After they are resurrected then they will have the opportunity to be judged on what they do after resurrection.
