From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: *I* am THE way.
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:21:34 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug26.155527.6092@engage.pko.dec.com> pub@riscee.pko.dec.com (Publius) writes:
>In article <1992Aug21.184642.10789@oclc.org> jay@oclc.org (Young Jeff) writes:
>>
...
>>You don't believe in an afterlife?  No burning hell?  No eternal life?
>
>I do believe in an afterlife.  However, I don't see how the afterlife
>has a significant place in the Christian theology, based on the
>Biblical prospective.  John Calvin specifically warned against
>speculation into afterlife, and I quote from his book "Institutes
>of the Christian Religion".
>
> [Institutes quote deleted]
>
>Today's popular concept of "burning hell" is really a leftover from
>Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica.  It has very little backing from the Bible.

I thought I'd give some of the Biblical (NT) references to hell fire.

Mat 25:41   "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you
      who are cursed, into the ETERNAL FIRE prepared for the devil and his
      angels.

Luke 16:23   In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham
      far away, with Lazarus by his side.
Luke 16:24   So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send
      Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,
      because I am in agony in THIS FIRE.'

Heb 10:26   If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the
       knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
Heb 10:27   but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of RAGING FIRE
      that will consume the enemies of God.

Jude 1:7   In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns
      gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an
      example of those who suffer the punishment of ETERNAL FIRE.

Rev 20:10   And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the LAKE OF
      BURNING SULFUR, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown.
      They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11   Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it.
      Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.
Rev 20:12   And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the
      throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the
      book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as
      recorded in the books.
Rev 20:13   The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades
      gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according
      to what he had done.
Rev 20:14   Then death and Hades were thrown into the LAKE OF FIRE. The
      LAKE OF FIRE is the second death.
Rev 20:15   If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he
      was thrown into the LAKE OF FIRE.

> ...
>For Christ and His Kingdom
>-- Publius
>Disclaimer: These opinions are mine, all mine, mine alone.

I think the concept of a burning hell is there, don't you?

For Christ and His Kingdom,
Richard Pitts

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