My concluding thoughts on hell. As mentioned before, I don’t think it really matters how one views hell in terms of being a Christian. God is not going to send anyone to hell because they have an erroneous view of hell. Though many Protestants and Catholics believe in eternal conscious torment, it is not the …
Broad summary of the major Christian views of hell: 1. Eternal conscious torment for the unsaved All people have an immaterial spirit/soul that survives after physical death. Only the saved will go to heaven. The unsaved will be in eternal torment in hell. Generally believed by Roman Catholics and Protestants. 2. Conditional immortality and annihilationism …
For the Jewish view of the afterlife, they do not seem to say much and is ambiguous on it. What happens after we die? Judaism is famously ambiguous about this matter. The immortality of the soul, the World to Come, and the resurrection of the dead all feature prominently in Jewish tradition, but exactly what …
onewithhim wrote: Um, the definition of “soul” is shown from the meaning of the Hebrew word “nephesh.” I think a Jew who knows Hebrew would tell you that it means the complete person or animal. Actually, I have no problem with nephesh meaning the complete person or animal. nephesh – soul, self, life, creature, person, …
RightReason wrote:It would be heretical to propose new theology like annihilation and soul sleep. These teachings were not taught by Christ or His Church and therefore it would be wrong to believe them. For a long time, I was unconsciously fearful of being labeled a heretic. I think most Christians have this fear as well. …
Spirit in Greek is pneuma. It is translated as Spirit (111x), Holy Ghost (89x), Spirit (of God) (13x), Spirit (of the Lord) (5x), (My) Spirit (3x), Spirit (of truth) (3x), Spirit (of Christ) (2x), human (spirit) (49x), (evil) spirit (47x), spirit (general) (26x), spirit (8x), (Jesus’ own) spirit (6x), (Jesus’ own) ghost (2x). Definitions of …
JehovahsWitness wrote: How convenient to declare the spirit irrelevant to a discussion on the fate of the dead. Whether a person has a SPIRIT and a SOUL and what these words mean is essential to the discussion since it seems to me it is one of these two things that some contend is caused agony …
PinSeeker wrote: Saying something is proved does not make it so. An error oft made is forming beliefs and then “shaping” Scripture to support it. When that is done, “proof” becomes a foregone conclusion. This is something we need to try to avoid, but it can be very difficult. I’ve tried to be open minded …
At the heart of the problem with accusations of the immorality of slavery in the Bible is the differing definitions of slavery. I’ve provided the modern definitions of slavery and I’ve provided the definitions of ebed and doulos. Neither ebed nor doulos match what is the modern definition of slavery. So, to make any equivalence …
There is not an equivalent word in Hebrew or Greek for the English word “slave”. In the Hebrew, the word used is eḇeḏ. It means: servant (744x), manservant (23x), bondman (21x), bondage (10x), bondservant (1x), on all sides (1x). https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon … v/wlc/0-1/ It is used 800 times in the Old Testament. Some examples: [Gen 24:34 …