Questioning Religious Beliefs.

 Because I have questioned ALL of my religious beliefs and practices and concluded that some of them are ungodly to the point of being devilish in origin, Christian people question my relationship with God, and if I still believe in Jesus? To which I answer with assurance, YES!

Deconstructing the religious beliefs I have been taught about God, the finished cross-work of Christ and the Gospel, has brought me to a place where I have rejected Questioning Religious Beliefsmost of what religion taught me, and in their religious viewpoint I am hell bound on the hell train with only a one way ticket. 

Some have informed me that I am a heretic for saying that the religious doctrine of the torture chamber of eternal hell fire is devil inspired and man-made however, I feel that I have risen above the religious deception I was led to believe was truth. I have risen above the message of exclusion and damnation of the vast majority of God's beloved creation, in believing that God will torture them forever in hell's fire. 

I am finally free to accept the truth of the Gospel that God is the loving Father of ALL, Jesus is the Saviour of ALL and the Gospel is Good News to ALL.

I can hear the born-again “sainted saints” saying: “And, if you end up in hell it is because you refused to accept Gods offer of pardon and forgiveness that He offers for those who ask Jesus for it.  Remembering that Jesus is God Who came down to us in human form to give us an example of what God is really like, because we could not rise up to him in our own strength.  It is never about what we did, or could ever do, it is all about what Jesus did!  He alone can remove our sin nature and replace it with Gods righteousness, thus freeing us from our sins!  Ask Him to save you and watch what happens, you will be amazed at what He will do, and overjoyed forever.”

What the fear mongering preachers thunder from the pulpit regarding hell...including "turn or burn" forever in Hell's torture chamber...is not scripturally sound.

The aim of religious fear mongering is to keep saints and the sinners fearful and ignorant regarding hell...and hence the people will seek hell-proofing ...by menacing hell as an endless punishment to keep people subservient by saying it is God's design, their scare tactics are a figment of the religious mind.    

That is covert (covert because the underlying agenda is unknown to most, or it is not openly taught), FASCIST  religion. Keep everyone in fear keeps them submissive, disables them to think for themselves and keeps them deceived. At the same time the fear-mongers rob them of their money by telling them that they are under a curse if they do not give 10% of their money to the Lord by giving to the denominated church.

Religious fear mongering ignites authoritarian aggression more than anything else. The aim is to keep people filled to the brim with fear so they will act from fear-fright. Don't expect the fear-mongers to curb their fear mongering, they have their underlying reasons for trying to scare the hell out of everybody.

Often the fear-mongers sermon is prefaced with the words, "This is God's message not mine". This statement renders them unaccountable for what they preach (at least in their mind), and it has to be truth because it is God's message...such manipulation is demonic in origin. What then flows from the mouth of the fear-monger is man-con-cocked fear fables that is accepted as bible truth, however, it is not Jesus truth.    

The first line of  bracketed quotes referenced at the beginning of the paragraphs below have all come over the pulpits as preachers preached "God's message". Judge for yourself if it is of God or not.

"Jesus said twice as much about hell as He did heaven." 

The fact is, that the word "hell" is used in the Authorized Version of the Gospels fourteen (14) times, while the word "heaven" is used in the Gospels one hundred and fifty (150) some times. I wonder, do the hell believers ever "study to show themselves approved unto God a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth".

"Hell is Heaven's junkyard." 

That is not even worth a response...now remember, the preacher said, "this is God's message not mine". I wonder what God is he talking about?

"Hell is the eternal home of every person who rejects the gospel. 

"Hell" is not in the Greek Scriptural Vocabulary. "Hades," is but, it is not an eternal abiding place, nor is it ever referred to as a "home." Nowhere do the Scriptures speak of souls remaining in Hades permanently. Did this guy write his own Bible?

The Demon conference ended with this resolution; "Lets get the pastors in every congregation...let's tell them to tell their people that a loving God would never send anyone to a place [Hell] this horrible." 

This though not in the Bible, may very well be true, if it is it is the only truth in the lot.

"The preacher says, 'Just go ahead and do what you want to. The grace of God gives you a blank check to sin and do as you please.'" 

It is beyond me that hell believers could say such a thing. The denominational preachers say no such thing, and to attribute that statement to them is in gross error. Most denominations teach and preach a strict adherence to the Old Testament Laws (though this is contrary to the teachings of Jesus).

On the other hand, religion does teach a multitude of sins, that are not sins according to the Scriptures. The teaching that it is a sin not to tithe is one of them. Tithing was for the nation of Israel. Only certain commodities were tithed. Only Levites could receive tithes. It was used for administering their office in the Temple. There is no man-made temple today. There is no Levitical priesthood today. Paul NEVER taught the Gentiles to tithe. Paul never said, "God loves a cheerful tithe-payer." Read Paul's epistles and notice that those under Grace are held to a much higher standard of conduct and morality than those who put themselves under law. Paul instructs Titus to set standards of morality for elders in the church that are far higher than what was expected of law-keeping Israelis. How many law-keeping clergymen do you think would qualify according to Titus 1:9: " ... able to entreat with sound teaching as well as to expose those who contradict." Much of today's Christian teachings are so unsound and unscriptural that they do nothing but contradict.

"If you never hear another gospel sermon you'll hear enough gospel today to stand before the judgment bar of God-guilty as charged."

Don't flatter yourself, Mr. fear-monger, this sermon of yours on Hell can hardly be called a "gospel sermon." You didn't preach the gospel. The gospel is "good news." Your sermon was "bad news." Why do religionists assume that the fruit of the true gospel will culminate in "standing before the judgment bar of God...guilty as charged?"

"What is the result of the gospel without the torture chamber of hell?"

Good News! The question I would ask is; what is the result of the gospel with the preaching of such a place as hell...it is turning people away from God...that is the result. There is no gospel (or good news) in hell fire teaching.

"If you don't believe there is a hell to be saved from you won't win people to a loving God."

One doesn't have to believe in a fabled Hell of eternal torture to realize that there is plenty to be saved from! How about saved from sin and evil? What about being saved from ourselves? What about being saved from weakness, stupidity, ignorance, foolishness, vanity and religiosity? What about being saved from corruption, immorality, mortality and death? Are these are things to be saved from?

"Jesus believed in Hell."

This is putting words in Jesus/mouth...Jesus never even said the word "hell" so how could He believe in it? Mark 9:46"...to be cast into Gehenna, into the unextinguished fire, where their worm is not deceasing and the fire is not going out." This is not "hell." This is "Gehenna." So why call it "hell?" The exact Greek word is Ge'enna (in Hebrew it is: RAVINE-of-HINNOM). It is a ravine just below Jerusalem where the city waste was incinerated.

The "ravine of hinnom" (Gehenna) was the city garbage dump in Jerusalem where the garbage was burned. And just like all garbage dumps, there were worms. The reason they didn't die out was because there was a constant supply of refuge being fed them.  Gehenna is a real place. This place existed at the time Jesus spoke these very words. It was burning with fire, with a daily supply of garbage, and a daily supply of worms to eat it. But if you go there today, it is not burning and there are no worms. This Gehenna is not eternal

How is it that so claimed learned men can so pervert and corrupt the scripture? There is not one word in either the Greek or Hebrew languages that means "a place where evil dead people suffer in hell fire for all eternity." What "exact" Greek or Hebrew word has such a meaning.

Hell believers take offence to my disbelief of an Eternal Hell and condemn me to its eternal flame.

They say,  Jesus spoke about hell in terms of "unquenchable fire”, are you so dumb to believe that this means something other than hell is not eternal”

Yes, the Bible says that Jesus used the phrase "unquenchable fire" when speaking about hell.

But is what Jesus meant by the phrase and what religion means by the phrase one and the same thing? I put it to you it is NOT!

The phrase unquenchable fire was a common Hebrew figure of speech in the Bible that did not refer to time but to an unstoppable event.

Here is an example of the exact same phrase that is applied to the destruction of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 17:27, it reads: “I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.”

The gates of Jerusalem were set on fire by the Babylonians, But the fires went OUT!!!

So what does "unquenchable" mean? The fires were not quenched means no one was able to quench them, no one put out the fire.

They burned down the gates of Jerusalem, the fires did their job, but the fires are not still burning today.

Unquenchable does NOT mean endless, it means unstoppable until there is no more fuel then the fire extinguishes! 

Jesus made it clear

The fires of hell (Greek Gehenna) will not be stopped. Not only that Jesus said unequivocally that the fires of hell are GOOD and results in restoration!

Mark 9:48-50, There ‘the worms that eat them never die, and the fire that burns them is never put out.’  “Everyone will be PURIFIED by FIRE as a sacrifice is purified by salt.

God is a consuming fire that consumes everything that is unlike Christ purifying people!

Religion will not stop this purifying of people by the lie that they will go to hell for eternity.

All people will be purified!

Thank God His purifying unquenchable fire!

A word to Christian Bible Literalists who advocate and defend, at the expense of God’s Mercy, Love and Grace, Eternal DAMNATION in the TORTURE CHAMBER OF ETERNAL HELL FIIRE. 

The doctrine of eternal conscious torturous torment for the vast majority of God’s beloved creation, whom He created for His “good pleasure”, in the literal fire of hell is utterly anti-God, anti-Christ and anti-Gospel in that it has no redeeming value.  An Eternal Torture Chamber of Hell fire defies logic, is an assault on reason, makes Jesus out to be a liar, perverts the Gospel and characterizes God as the ultimate sadistic terrorizing  monster!

Defenders of and advocates for such a devilish doctrine, just keep on and on making the same superficial, trite, nonsensical false arguments against Jesus being the saviour of the WHOLE world and not just a few chosen frozen sainted-saints. This devilish belief  is believed by the Christian Bible Literalists in spite of the fact the Bible teaches Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin [singular, collective sin] of the WHOLE world (John 1:29; 4:42; I John 2:2). 

It is time for illusional Christian Bible Literalists to stop cherry-picking verses here and there, which superficially appear to teach eternal conscious torture in literal hell fire, and open their minds to to the obvious glorious simple truth Jesus declared that if He were "lifted up from the earth" [on the cross], He would draw ALL (not just a few) people to Himself (John 12:32). This will be fully accomplished, some in this age other’s in the ages to come.

Even a person, who is intellectually challenged, can understand the ultimate simplicity that ALL [100%] die in Adam, ALL [100%] live in Christ (I Cor. 15:22). This is proof that God operates corporately, not just individually. Just using plain common sense, the most basic thing that is necessary to understand the wonderful truth of salvation for ALL, is that fire, in relation to God and judgment, symbolizes purification, not torture in the fire of hell. The most obvious example of purificatory fire in the Bible is God being "a consuming fire" (Dut. 4:24; Heb. 12:29), who consumes sin, purifying sinners.

But the religious mainstream believes that God drowned millions of people, babies, children and adults in the worldwide flood in Noah's day.

Then God, “who is LOVE”, consigns those same babies and children to suffer in the torture chamber of hell-fire  for all eternity? 

Death by drowning followed by torture by fire forevveerrrrrr. Wow, what a loving God! Or more correct, what a cosmic terrorizing terrorist!

OR JUST MAYBE.

People has confused the nature and works of God with the nature and works of Satan. 

Jesus clears all this mistaken identity stuff up in the Bible if we will just let Him. Jesus was clear that Satan has been the murderer from the beginning (John 8:44), that Satan has the power of death (John10:10; Hebrews 2:14), and that Jesus came to destroy Satan's works by infusing divine life into every situation He encountered (1 John 3:8).

"Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning." James 1:16-17.

People, God is NOT the monster that the Christian Religion projects!