Faith: The Basics and The Life

When Jesus was speaking of "age-lasting punishment/purification" (wrongly translated "everlasting punishment") in Gehenna, He was addressing a topic very well known by his Jewish community, and the fake teaching of Eternal Conscious Torment is a perversion of that teaching...  The Valley of Hinnom (Ge-Hinnom)in 1900 (Wikipedia) One of the major Mistakes that Christians do, is try to understand the words of Jesus outside the cultural and linguistic context of the community in which Jesus lived. One of these words is the word Gehenna (wrongly translated to English as Hell in many translations). In Jewish traditions, Gehenna was a place where sinners go for 12 months. there they are either punished or purified, and after that, though their bodies vanish, their souls are then reunited with God in Ganna, the paradise of the book of Genesis. In the Targum (The ancient Aramaic paraphrased translation of the Old Testament), the term Gehenna is added to several ...

Dear Maya, First let me tell you that I have went through the article that you shared on Facebook, and read every word of it, and looked at it in a scientific & logical manner. Notes:  Much of the below information is taken from the book "Hope Beyond Hell" by "Gerry Beauchemin" www.hopebeyondhell.net , and direct extracts from several articles available online at the website: www.tentmaker.org  If you are interested to further study the subject, I invite you to visit the  all these websites to get deeper insight on the subject. What are you trying to Prove? The writer of the article you shared tried to prove that the Greek words "Aion" and "Aionios" - Which are usually translated "Eternal" and "Everlasting" both mean ever and everlasting somehow exclusively in the Bible, and especially in the new Testament and thus trying to prove that the "Punishment", and "Torment", which are menti...

Looking to the Old Testament as a whole, I am convinced that it does not carry a methodologically clear teaching related to the after-life. I am convinced that Life and Immortality are brought to light by the revelation of Jesus, after his death and resurrection, as indicated in 2 Timothy 1: 10. Still we can find types and shadows in the OT related to the Universal salvation, in addition to general declarations related to the nature of God which walks in line with the concept of Universal Salvation or the principles surrounding it. I choose a few verses with the complete understanding that I am not an OT scholar and by no means is this list in any way comprehensive. Note: all Bible verses are from the English standard Version except if mentioned otherwise. Genesis 1: 31 “And God saw everything that he has made, and behold, it was very good…” For the God who clearly knows the future and sees his works from the beginning till the end (see Acts 15: 18 NKJV), to say that ...

Looking at the New Testament text, several passages and verses indicate the idea of Universal Salvation or Restoration.  I will be mentioning few examples (just a sample), which clearly state or indicate a Universal Salvation. Most of the paragraphs focus on the impact of Christ’s redemption, and on God’s ultimate will for humanity: Romans 3: 23-24 “For  all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  and are justified  by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” It is clear that all the people mentioned, who have sinned (i.e. the total humanity that has fallen short of the Glory of God) are justified by His grace. Romans 5: 18 “Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men” he above paragraph makes reference to the Biblical story of human fall into sin, and it clearly indicates that the Sin of Adam that brought death to the worl...