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 ...

Recently I have somehow been accused by some friends sometimes by being a racist, other times as a person who stands against Social Justice, and I am viewed by many liberals as someone whose opinions should be just dismissed because it is too fanatic. Some of the comments I received just outraged me, so I had to write the below to clarify once and for all my views on racism, human and social equality and some views on current world events. All Humans are born equal: I stand firm in my belief that all humans, regardless of any innate, genetic, hereditary stuff they inherited through their DNA, are all equal, and that beyond and regardless of their skin color or eye looks (for our brother and sisters of Asian races), gender, sexual orientation, nationality we are share in the same divine Breath, that the Bible speaks about when God Breathed into ADAM (the Human Race) a breath of life. The human spirit is the same and the divine feature in each and every one of us is equal and thu...

I hold to the confession of faith below, which reflects my current understanding, not infallible in any sense, but just a reflection of the revelation I reached up till this day. I am faithful to preach and teach what God has revealed to me with all zeal and love, without being closed to a wider understanding that God might reveal in the future. 1.     I believe in the Holy Bible, the written form of the word of God, which is a message and not a book. The Bible is the Gospel as presented by the early Church, through the apostles and those who had proven Apostolic authority or pseudo-Authority as in some minor books of the New Testament. 2.     I believe the Bible is inspired by God and is infallible, still our interpretation of it is not. Thus, an understanding of the Bible might Change, as we increase in our knowledge and understanding. I believe that the interpretation of the Bible should not always be literal, but rather depend on the Literary ...

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 ...