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I can't even address the 'send you to hell' business because it's so alien to me anymore... literal hell... the idea that someone could have or would want the ability to 'send someone there' in thought or word... just too horrific... I avoid contemplating it at all...ever. I am not sure I could even sit somewhere anymore that they expound on it...
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This statement to me sums up why there is no fear of God left almost anywhere.
After all did not Christ preach about Gehenna Fire? He meant it as motivation to turn from sin and obey him. Nowadays people seem to think the devil invented Hell.
Now as far as burning in flames for billions and trillions of years indeed that is false. The Gehenna Fire is meant to destroy evil souls not let them have eternal life. Rather it ENDS life.
Todays Churches and "Christians" have no credible message of eternal judgment. And indeed practically no one preaches it anymore at all. Yet most who think they are going to Heaven will actually be going there.
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