Why do so many Christians preach this false doctrine?

So many claim that Hell is the grave.


WRONG!


It is indeed a place of eternal suffering for sinners!


Matthew 16:24-';...for I am tormented in this flame!';


Preachers of the ';grave'; doctrine may find themselves


in Hell with other blasphemers!


God Bless!Why do so many Christians preach this false doctrine?
HELL IN KJV


One Hebrew word “sheol” is rendered hell. Definition; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranian retreat), grave, hell, pit. Three Greek words are rendered hell; geenna, hades, and tartaroo. Definition of geenna; a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment: - hell. Definition of hades; properly unseen, that is, “Hades” or the place (state) of departed souls: - grave, hell. Definition of tartaroo; (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment: - cast down to hell. Tartaroo is used only one place II Pet.2:4.


Christ teaching the Pharisees in Luke 16:19-31 shows us a separation from God is truly what hell is. The “water” is symbolic for God’s Spirit and love. The word “tormented” means distressed in the Greek, not torture. The “fire” is symbolic for the shame and desire not to be separated from God.


So all who die the first death of the flesh return to God Ecc.12:6-7, but on which side of the gulf do they end up?


Hell is not eternal but is done away with in Rev.20:14-15, called both the second death and lake of fire. This second death is non-existence, for death and hell and those not written in the book of life. This second death or lake of fire is like fat drippings that fall into the fire. Just a poof of smoke into non-existence.


Psa.37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.


In my mind what’s worse yet is no memory of you, no tears will be shed for you like you never existed.


Rev.21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.


So hell is a separation from God and is not eternal torture or burning. Eventually hell will be done away with or passed away and also some souls. Like fat drippings in the fire, a poof of smoke into non-existence, the second death.Why do so many Christians preach this false doctrine?
You forgot to say ';according to my beliefs'; - it sounds like you think this is factual information.
There are people who cannot conceive of a G-d who would send people to such a place. There is a tendency for peoples theology to follow their philosophy of life and there you have the rub. It is good for us to confront error in theology, however we must make sure that we always present the truth in Love, because Love covers a multitude of our sins (yours and mine).
Concur, some teach man centered religion and its amazing how many preachers don't believe all of the bible. They dont preach on sin, accountability dont do alter calls and preach salvation, its a sin. The face of the modern church with its praise music, some of which has no doctrinal qualities at all, only one Sunday morning services are a product of a secular society and amount to little more than a social club.


It's a shame that some good Christians wind up in these churches because they are so comfortable and wind up stagnating or not growing spiritually because there lucky if there being fed Milk there.
Hell, as it exists in the Western population, has its origins in Hellenized Christianity, particularly taken from adaptation of the Hellenistic afterlife known as Tartarus. As the concept of Hell began to flourish in Medieval Europe, it took on recognizably Greek concepts, such as a satyr as Satan and Heaven from the concept of Elysium.[1] Hell was also influenced by Zoroastrian eschatology, from which ';Judgment Day'; originated.[citation needed]





Judaism, at least initially[2], believed in Sheol, a shadowy existence to which all were sent indiscriminately. Sheol may have been little more than a poetic metaphor for death, not really an afterlife at all: see for example Sirach and Isaiah 14:3-11. However, by the third to second century B.C. the idea had grown to encompass a far more complex concept.





The New Hebrew Sheol was translated in the Septuagint as 'Hades', the name for the underworld in Greek mythology and is still considered to be distinct from ';Hell'; by Eastern Orthodox Christians. In Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries and Concordances it is transliterated ';Sheh-ole';. The Lake of Fire and realm of Eternal Punishment in Hellenistic mythology was in fact Tartarus. Hades was not Hell in Hellenistic mythology, but was rather a form of limbo where the dead went to be judged. The New Testament uses this word, but it also uses the word 'Gehenna', from the valley of Hinnom, a valley near Jerusalem originally used as a location in which human sacrifices were offered to an idol called ';Molech'; (or Moloch).


The Christian idea of Hell is different from the Sheol of Judaism. The nature of Hell is described in the New Testament on several occasions. For example, in Matthew 3:10-12, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:29-30, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 22:13, Matthew 25:30, Matthew 25:41-46, Luke 3:9, Luke 12:5, Luke 13:28, Luke 16:19-28, and Revelation 12:9, Revelation 14:9-11, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 20:10, Revelation 20:14-15, Revelation 21:8; in the Book of Revelation Hell is also mentioned as the ';abyss'; and ';the Earth';. Jesus himself describes Hell as a place of ';weeping and gnashing of teeth';; this quotation has overwhelmingly frequent appearance in the New Testament.





The population of Hell comprises the souls of those who died without accepting Christ as their saviour, God's grace, in sin and without repentance, although beliefs on these categories differ among Christian denominations. Some consider the fate of righteous people who lived before the time of Christ (thus being non-Christian through no fault of their own) a complication, especially for the many righteous Jews of the Old Testament. In some traditions, these people went straight to Heaven despite not being Christians because Christ had not yet come and gone. In other traditions, they had to wait in Limbo until the Harrowing of Hell during the three days between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.





Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180)According to Western Christian beliefs, the Devil and his angels (demons), who are receiving punishment, reside in hell along with the souls of the damned. This doctrine is not part of Eastern Orthodox teachings. Yet, Matthew 25:41 mentions the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. Revelation 14:9-11 and Revelation 20:10 can be interpreted to mean that after the Day of the Lord those who were condemned to Hell will remain there physically, tormented by eternal fire that will never consume them nor be extinguished - although Revelation 20:14-15 can be interpreted to mean Hell is death rather than eternal torment.





According to Luke 16:19-28 (Lazarus and Dives) nobody can pass from the bosom of Abraham to the place where the wicked burn or vice versa. Fire is not the only tormentor, thirst being another, and more that are not described; in this biblical passage it is also mentioned that the souls that are in Hell can see those that are in Heaven and vice versa. Many view this story as a parable, and as such, believe its meaning may not literally define the existence in the afterlife, but instead serve as a lesson about the dangers of wealth and the unwillingness to listen to God.





Concerning the fire, some scholars speculated that the idea came from the fire consecrated to some Pagan deities like Adramelech, Moloch, etc., to whom children were sacrificed by throwing them into the flames; but other scholars, more recently, speculated that, since Hell is considered an underground place, fire was associated with volcanic eruptions; the idea that volcanoes could be gateways to Hell was present in the mind of the ancient Romans, and later of Icelanders and other European peoples. Some claim that the conditions thought to prevail in Hell are influenced by the generally hot, dry climates found in the cradlelands of Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike; these observers point to the fact that the equivalent of Hell in Norse mythology, known as Niflheim, is pictured as a cold, foggy place (the name itself meaning ';home of the fog';).





Medieval imagination added cauldrons inside which people will be ';cooked'; forever by demons and Christian demonology acquired a ';terrifying'; aspect concerning imagery of Hell. Medieval theologians were keen to portray all manner of hideous tortures, designed to inflict horrific pain upon the eternally-damned inhabitants of Hell.





More recently and to some theologians, the idea of an underground Hell gave place to the conception of an abstract spiritual status in an also intangible plane of existence, which is sometimes associated to a site in an unknown point of the universe or also abstract, but tradition continues referring to Hell as ';down';, meanwhile religion refers to it as the place of eternal punishment and torment, far from God's presence (2 Thessalonians 1:9).
I somehow don't think God is as pissed off as you are.
all that say ';Lord, Lord'; are not true Christians.
Probably because some of them dont understand their own scripture.





God knows best.





Peace and Love.
Don't quarrel over ridiculous things. The important thing is how you live and serve the Lord.
';so many Christians?';


I would suggest a more thorough examination before making this claim.


Just because you heard it from the pulpit doesn't mean ';many'; Christians believe this.
There are three words for hell found in the Bible and they are Sheol and Hades and these both mean the world of dead or the grave and the word Genna which means a burning garbage dump. Genna is the concept of burning with sulfur and fire or the Lake of Fire described in Revelation. On judgement day those whose names are not found in the Lambs Book of Life will be cast into the Lake of Fire--the place that God originally designed for satan and a third of the angels that fell from heaven.
I have never heard of it referred to as the 'grave';.....
It is EXACTLY what Jesus preached in Luke 16....a fiery torment!





God help those without Him!
Doesn't matter. You can escape the fiery hell BY NOT BEING BORN! If you are not born you cannot be judged.





If there is a fiery hell, then I have just fooled God and spared my potential children. God cannot be fooled, therefore, there is no fiery hell.
Well, everybody has a right to be wrong.





I noticed that entire websites were committed to attempting to convince people that hell as we think it is does not exist. I find that it's partly wishful thinking, and the other part is poor scholarship. Hell does indeed exist. And all one has to do is get a couple of commentaries and discover that it does exist. And there is quite a bit in the Bible to support the Jewish religion supporting it. So there is a definite trend towards the typical voice of Satan tainting the truth with a lie.