Bible Verse Burning in Hell for Not Being Born Again

Hell is real, but people don't burn forever

What Jesus says well-nigh fourth dimension in hell

PURPOSE: Helping Christians appoint in intelligent conversations with doubters and unbelievers

QUESTIONS

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Tough questions people are asking about people burning in hell forever:

➤ Is hellfire eternal?

➤ Will Satan and demons exist in hell?

➤ Will people fire in hell forever? Or simply for a time?

➤ How can a Christian take an intelligent conversation with people who think hell is but a joke?

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INTRODUCTION

What happens here

Confident Christian

The question of whether or not hell is FOREVER is important because the answer portrays God'south character to doubters and unbelievers. Is God just and merciful? Or vengeful and monstrous?

This page tin build your confidence in the Bible and create a desire to talk about it with family, friends and acquaintances.

Informed Christian

The verses in this Bible study take not been ruby-red-picked to support any particular betoken of view. This is the full extent of what the Bible says regarding the question of whether or not hell is for a time or is forever.

This page tells the interesting story of how science has come into alignment with the commencement ii verses of the Bible. It's a expert story you can weave into your Christian witness.

Interesting Christian

When confident and informed, Christians become interesting conversationalists on spiritual topics, and soon people begin asking a broad range of questions about God and the Bible.

This page has enough information to enable you to accept an enlightened spiritual chat with anyone well-nigh the Big Bang theory of the globe's origin.

WHY THIS MATTERS

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Some say information technology doesn't thing

A common response from Christians:

'Information technology really doesn't matter to me whether hell is forever or only for a elapsing ... information technology's horrible either way ... just accept Jesus as Savior and you lot won't become in that location at all.'

That response misses the signal and is shortsighted and cocky-serving. That's thinking only about me , not about others .

The outcome is perception of God

The master reason why we have to be careful in the style nosotros speak nigh hell is that it defines God's graphic symbol in the minds of other people.

Burning forever, without being able to die, is the worst kind of torture imaginable.

Burning forever regardless of the degree of sin goes far beyond penalization and becomes space cruelty. Even Jesus, who paid the ultimate cede for sin, was freed by expiry from suffering in a matter of hours. (To the thief on the cross: 'Truly I tell y'all, today you volition be with me in paradise' (Luke 23:43).

The erroneous image of a cruel and vengeful God who condemns people He says he loves to the worst kind of torture imaginable – burning forever without existence able to die – is a contradiction to our God of love and justice, especially for people who accept never even heard of Jesus.

This image in the minds of doubters and unbelievers is a big barrier to Christian religion.

ALL 33 VERSES ARE HERE

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Bible verses on this page

This page contains all 33 verses in the Bible that say or imply something nearly the elapsing of homo punishment in hell. These verses have non been cerise-picked. They are the unabridged biblical teaching on this bailiwick.

Version

The Bible verses quoted here are from the New Intetrnational Version (NIV), the most popular version in the United States today.

For deeper report, tap Hither to come across whatsoever of these verses laid side-by-side in 28 different English translations, or tap Hither to see any poesy in a Greek-to-English language interlinear translation.

Text in red is a commentary to stimulate thinking.

Fire burns forever, but not people

The verses on this folio prove that, for people who decline God's forgiveness and offer of salvation for a life of unforgiven sin, at that place is a existent hell but people are not tortured there forever .

This is affirmed in some of the best-known verses in the Bible:

'For God and so loved the world that he gave his i and merely Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish simply have eternal life' (John 3:16) – perish, not eternal life of torture .

'For the wages of sin in death, simply the gift of God is eternal life' (Romans 6:23) – death, not eternal life of torture .

After physical death, resurrection, and judgment, people who refuse God's offer of salvation and eternal life volition somewhen die (terminate of beingness) in hell, with the degree and elapsing of penalisation for personal sin determined past God at the time of judgment.

Contrary to what most Christians have been taught through church tradition, but in accordance with what the Bible says, the duration could exist very long, only not forever .

WHAT One-time Attestation SAYS

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'Like h2o spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, some must die.' (two Samuel fourteen:14, Joab speaking, military commander nether King David)

The Old Attestation does not teach nearly any detail kind of hell afterward death. In the Old Testament, Jews thought that people – not-Jews (Gentiles) for sure – only dice ('cannot be recovered,' finish of existence), like every other living matter.

– 2 –

'A niggling while, and the wicked will be no more ...' (Psalm 37:x, Psalmist speaking)

In the Old Testament times, Jews believed that human life is short and death is end of beingness. The of import thing is preserving life of the nation. 'Will be no more' means no existence.

– 3 –

'... though the wicked spring up like grass and all evil doers flourish, they will be forever destroyed ' (Psalm 92:seven, Psalmist speaking)

Same words used by Jesus in the New Testament (run across beneath). 'Forever destroyed' means end of being, much different than alive forever in hell.

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'Surely the day is coming; information technology will burn similar a furnace. All the big-headed and every evil doer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will gear up them on fire,' says the Lord Omnipotent. 'Not a root or branch will be left to them ... and they volition be ashes under the soles of your anxiety ...' (Malachi iv:one-iii, Old Attestation Prophet speaking)

Ashes hateful no life, no consciousness.

WHAT NEW Attestation SAYS

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'His winnowing fork is in his mitt, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.' (Matthew 3:12, John the Baptist speaking)

When something is burned upwards, it ceases to exist, even though the fire itself is unquenchable and burns forever.

– 6 –

'All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the police force, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.' (Romans 2:12, Apostle Paul speaking)

Perish means no longer live. All people sin, simply people to whom God has non spoken (no constabulary) will perish (stop of existence) and not be judged by the police force.

– vii –

'For the wages of sin is death , just the souvenir of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Romans half dozen:23, Apostle Paul speaking)

What a person gets for sin is expiry. Does not say eternal life in hell. This decease (end of existence) is assorted with eternal life offered through Jesus. Decease is the default status for everyone, avoidable only by accepting God's provision for salvation.

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'What if God, although choosing to evidence his wrath and make his power known, bore with keen patience the objects of his wrath — prepared for destruction ?' (Romans 9:22, Apostle Paul speaking)

When something is destroyed, it is damaged so badly that it ceases to exist.

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'This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed , but that you lot will exist saved — and that by God.' (Philippians 1:28, Apostle Paul speaking)

When something is destroyed, it is damaged so badly that it ceases to exist. God will save genuine Christians from destruction (will continue living, eternal life).

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'Their destiny is destruction, their god is their tum, and their glory is in their shame.' (Philippians 3:19, Campaigner Paul speaking)

Devastation means damaged so badly that it ceases to exist.

– 11 –

'He will punish those who do non know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They volition be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.' (ii Thessalonians two:3, Apostle Paul speaking)

When something is destroyed – everlasting destruction – it is damaged so badly that information technology ceases to exist, and in that location is no hope of re-construction. This is the ultimate separation from God, forever.

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'Merely we do not vest to those who shrink dorsum and are destroyed , just to those who have faith and are saved.' (Hebrews 10:39, Campaigner Paul speaking)

When something is destroyed, it is damaged then badly that it ceases to exist. People who accept accustomed Jesus every bit Savior are saved from destruction and given eternal life.

– 13 –

'For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment ...' (2 Peter 2:4, Apostle Peter speaking)

'Chains of darkness' is the dire condition while pending judgment, before existence bandage into hell.

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'With the Lord a day is like a m years, and a thousand years are like a solar day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some sympathise slowness. Instead he is patient with you, non wanting anyone to perish , simply everyone to come to repentance. Only the day of the Lord will come similar a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will exist destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything washed in it volition be laid bare ... That solar day will bring about the destruction of the heavens past fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forrad to a new heaven and a new world, where righteousness dwells.' (2 Peter 3:8-13, Campaigner Peter speaking)

Perish means no longer alive, end of existence. When something is destroyed, information technology is damaged so badly it ceases to exist. This passage says that the day will come when everything will collapse in flames, and there will exist a new heaven and a new world, which volition end space as we know it. Since we now know (Einstein) that time was created simultaneously with infinite and is part of space – at present known as space-time – it is possible that fourth dimension itself could stop when space ends.

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'And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does non have the Son of God does not accept life .' (one John v:11-12, Apostle John speaking)

Merely 2 possibilities: Eternal life or no life (death, end of existence). No mention of people being punished forever in hell.

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'Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves upward to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an instance of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire .' (Jude vii, Jude speaking)

Sodom and Gomorrah are cited as examples of punishment of eternal fire. Those cities were burned out of existence.

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'If anyone worships the creature and its image and receives its mark on their brow or on their hand, they, too, volition drink the vino of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the loving cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the fume of their torment will rising for ever and ever . In that location will be no rest day or dark FOR THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST and its epitome, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.' (Revelation 14:ix-12, Apostle John dream)

WORDS IN CAPS arrive clear that this is only for a very narrow category of people at a later fourth dimension. This is the Apostle John's dream virtually what volition happen in the future; words quoted from a dream are not as clear as direct statements from Jesus and the Apostles. The dream says that hell fire is eternal for people who 'worship the beast and his image.' The dream refers simply to some people in the time to come, non well-nigh people past or nowadays.

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' And the DEVIL who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of called-for sulfur, where the Beast and the Fake PROPHET had been thrown . They will exist tormented solar day and nighttime for always and eve r.' (Revelation twenty:10, Apostle John dream)

Says specifically that the devil, the beast and the false prophet volition burn in hell forever. Does not say any alive today or in the past will burn forever.

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'The body of water gave up the expressionless that were in it, and death and Hades gave upward the expressionless that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. And so expiry and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of burn down is the 2nd decease . Anyone whose proper name was non found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.' (Revelation xx:thirteen-fifteen, Campaigner John dream)

Sounds like the kickoff decease is physical death and the 2d death (after judgment) is death in hell fire. This speaks of death (end of being) in hell, not everlasting life in hell. Any living thing thrown into a lake of fire dies.

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'Just the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars – they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfer. This is the second death .' (Revelation 21:eight, Apostle John dream)

Similar the preceding verse, this seems to say that the outset death is physical death and the second death (after judgment) is death in hell burn. This speaks of death (finish of existence) in hell, non everlasting life in hell.

WHAT JESUS SAYS

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'If your correct eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell .' (Matthew 5:29, Jesus speaking)

Jesus acknowledges hell as a terrible place, simply no mention of time in hell.

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'Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction , and many enter through information technology. Just small is the gate and narrow the route that leads to life, and simply a few discover it.' (Matthew 7:13-fourteen, Jesus speaking)

Only two possibilities: Eternal life or eternal destruction. When something is destroyed, information technology is damaged and then badly that it ceases to be.

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'Every tree that does non conduct good fruit is cutting downwardly and thrown into the fire .' (Matthew 7:19, Jesus speaking)‍

Jesus is giving an example nearly what volition happen to faux prophets who come in sheep's clothing. When trees are thrown into the fire, they burn up and cease to exist.

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'But the subjects of the kingdom will exist thrown outside, into the darkness , where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' (Matthew 8:12, Jesus speaking)

Seems to hateful the dire status later on expiry while pending judgment, earlier being bandage into hell. Come across #13 in a higher place.

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'Don't be afraid of those who want to kill your trunk; they cannot touch your soul. Fearfulness only God, who can destroy both soul and torso in hell.' (Matthew 10:28, Jesus speaking)

Jesus says clearly that BOTH soul and body will be DESTROYED in hell. Even the soul is destroyed. When something is destroyed, information technology no longer exists.

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'As the weeds are pulled upwards and burned in the fire , so information technology will be at the terminate of the historic period. The Son of Man will ship out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They volition throw them into the blazing furnace , where in that location will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' (Matthew 13:forty-42, Jesus speaking)

Weeds thrown into fire become dry, burn up, and terminate to exist.

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'Once more, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was permit downwards into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it upwards on the shore. And so they sat down and collected the practiced fish in baskets, only threw the bad away . This is how it will be at the finish of the historic period. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the blazing furnace , where at that place will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' (Matthew 13:47-l, Jesus speaking)

Dead fish rot and end to be. When whatever living affair is thrown into a blazing furnace, information technology is killed and ceases to exist.

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'And if your eye causes y'all to stumble, gouge information technology out and throw it away. Information technology is amend for you to enter life with one eye than to have ii optics and exist thrown into the fire of hell. ' (Matthew xviii:9, Jesus speaking)

When fish or any living affair is thrown into burn down information technology is consumed, burned up, and ceases to exist, even tho the fire continues.

– 29 –

'If your paw causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is improve for you to enter life maimed with two hands than to go into hell, where the burn never goes out .' (Matthew 18:xviii, Jesus speaking)

Doesn't say a person volition burn forever in hell, simply that the burn never goes out. People die in the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels (see side by side poetry beneath).

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'Depart from me, you lot who are cursed, into the eternal burn down prepared for the DEVIL and HIS ANGELS .' (Matthew 25:41, Jesus speaking)

Doesn't say a person will burn forever in hell – only that the fire burns forever – and that the fire (in which a person eventually dies) is prepared for the devil and his angels, who volition burn there forever (see #18 in a higher place).

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'Then they will get away to eternal penalization , simply the righteous to eternal life.' (Matthew 25:46, Jesus speaking)

Doesn't say the called-for is eternal, only that the penalisation is eternal – i.e., the judgement volition never be commuted or changed. The judgment is for all time with no reprieve. The penalisation is death, no eternal life.

– 32 –

'Fearfulness him who, after your body has been killed, has authorization to throw you into hell ' (Luke 12:5, Jesus speaking)

Jesus says in that location is a hell but doesn't say anything about time there before one perishes.

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'But unless yous repent, you also will all perish .' (Luke 13:3, Jesus speaking)

Perish ways no longer alive, finish of existence.

7 REASONS

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DEFINITION: The term 'people' as used here means all people alive now and all people who have ever lived. It means 'united states,' today, and excludes people who will transgress in a futurity eschatological age.

✓ REASON ane. Jesus is full say-so

Jesus said, 'All dominance in heaven and on earth has been given to me' (Matthew 28:18). Jesus is full authorization on truth. Not church, not tradition, not even Campaigner John'due south dream. In seeking answer to the question of whether or non people will burn in hell forever, we need to requite full authority to what Jesus said. To exist true, statements from theologians must align with statements from Jesus.

✓ REASON 2. Dream is lesser authorization

The verses people use to 'evidence' that people will burn in hell forever are from the Apostle John'due south dream in the Book of Revelation. Recalling a vision has less authority than hearing a direct argument and speculating on alien interpretations. John'due south vague dream must be subordinated to Jesus' articulate statements. The dream verses (quoted in #17 to #21 above) are the simply verses in the Bible that might imply that hell is forever (though the verses don't say then). The common interpretation of the dream verses is contrary to Jesus' direct statements.

✓ REASON iii. Dream verses are not nigh us

Fifty-fifty though many parts of John's dream are hard or incommunicable to interpret with clarity, it's clear that the people who will be burning in hell forever are Non people live now or people who have lived in the past. The writer specifically identifies the people who, along with Satan and his demons, will burn forever: the faux prophet and those who worship the beast and its image. That's not u.s.a., but rather some people in a future age.

✓ REASON 4. Jesus did not say hell is forever

There is no verse anywhere in the Bible where Jesus says that hell is forever for whatsoever person alive at present or at any time in the past.

✓ REASON 5. Jesus gave examples

Jesus gave examples (#23 to #33 above) of what hell volition be like: a tree thrown into the burn ... weeds thrown into the fire ... fish thrown into the fire, etc. And what happens to them in the burn down? In Jesus' ain words: 'destroyed ... consumed ... perish ... burned upward.'

✓ REASON 6. Fire burns forever, not people

Jesus said that in hell 'the fire never goes out.' But this is not the same as maxim that people burn forever in the fire. Jesus says that the fire is forever , but the people are consumed and perish. After a time of punishment commensurate with their sin, people who reject God's offering of salvation will ultimately die in hell (the '2nd death').

✓ REASON 7. God is but and merciful

Torturing people in hell forever is arbitrary and vicious beyond comprehension, not in graphic symbol with the merely and merciful God nosotros encounter in the New Testament. God now freely offers salvation through Jesus, but physical death seals the offer, which has been either accepted or rejected. People who refuse or ignore the offering will be punished justly in hell for their individual sins.

Death (2d expiry, terminal decease) volition be God's gift of mercy to people in hell. Eventually, for them, it's the stop of being.

Those who have God's offer volition be totally forgiven – no hell and no final death – and will have eternal life in a new and heady dimension beyond our imagination.

This is the consequent Bible narrative.

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