Why Did God Create Hell? FYTube

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1. Convinced there’s a hell? Take a look at these verses showing the unsaved will perish: they’ll be destroyed and not “be” anymore:
   
   ■ “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
   
   ■ “For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.” (Psalm 37:10)
   
   ■ “When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever” (Psalms 92:7)
   
   ■ “As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation” (Proverbs 10:25).
   
   ■ “Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?” (Job 20:4-7).
   
   ■ “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23)
   
   ■ “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

   There’s nothing in those verses about eternal life in torment.

   So on one hand we have verses showing the unsaved perish: after destruction they will not “be.” But on the other hand we have Bible translations with verses about hell and everlasting punishment.

   What’s going on? Long, long ago the pagan doctines of immortal soul and eternal torment in hell crept into church doctrine. Translators from those churches then wrote “hell” into the Bible by mis-translating several Greek words. For example:
   
   ■ “And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire” (Mark 9:47, KJV)

   “Hell” in that verse is from the Greek word γεέννῃ or “gehenna,” the dump outside Jerusalem. The trash and garbage thrown there was sure to be destroyed by the constant fire —“hell fire”— and worms (maggots) in the dump. Jesus was only saying that just as trash thrown into the dump was sure to be destroyed, the wicked would surely be destroyed. They would perish and never again “be” as we saw earlier.

   Here’s another verse where “hell” is from the Greek word γεέννῃ or “gehenna”:
   
   ■ “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28)

   Wait a minute . . . how can a soul be destroyed if it’s immortal? Was Jesus wrong? Of course not. In pagan Greek philosophy the soul was an immortal spiritual component of a person that separates from the body at death and keeps on living, forever. But in the Bible, soul refers to a person, to the self, the life —not to some sort of immortal component. For example:
   
   ■ “And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.” (Acts 27:37)
   
   ■ “The soul that sinneth, it shall die . . .” (Ezeliel 18:20).

   Compare that to the “soul” according to pagan Greek religion:
   
   “Do we believe that there is such a thing as death? And is this anything but the separation of soul and body? And being dead is the attainment of this separation; when the soul exists in herself, and is parted from the body and the body is parted from the soul . . . beyond question the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will truly exist in another world!” (Plato, in Phaedo, about 360 BC)

   What you just read sounds just like what you’ll hear in most churches today. Can you now see what has happened? Over the centuries pagan Greek religion has crept into church doctrine!
   
   Along with the immortal soul came hell, as a necessary explanation for where the unsaved immortal soul spends eternity!

   And what happens now, today, when people see “hell” in the Bible? They naturally conclude “Oh, so we must have immortal souls” —and the pagan doctrines live on.

   Did you know some later translators recognized the error of “hell” in the Bible translations? Young's Literal Tranlsation (YLT), for example, never uses “hell."

   The “immortal soul” has roots in Satan’s original lie:
   
   ■ “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4)

   Salvation is NOT about “where you’ll spend eternity.” You won’t even have an eternity unless you receive from God the gift of eternal life! Otherwise you’ll perish and no longer “be” as we saw earlier.

   So, what really happens to the unsaved? How do they perish? The apostle Paul wrote:
   
   ■ “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23)

   After resurrection and judgment the unsaved die again. It’s called “the second death” in the Bible, in Revelation 2:11, 20:6, 20:14 and 21:8. After the second death there is no life and no hope of resurrection. It’s the end of that person; they will never again “be.” That’s what it means to perish.

   This second death is the “everlasting punishment” Jesus spoke of in Matthew 25:46:
   
   ■ “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”(Matthew 25:46)

   The punishment —the second death— is everlasting in this respect: it is finished, permanent and irrevocable, like the execution of a criminal. It is not perpetual, ongoing punishing.

   You didn't really think the God of mercy would be a sadistic monster, endlessly subjecting the unsaved to hopeless torment, did you?

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2. And sorry what i mean is that for people that blaspheme god jesus those people should then go to hell like that blaspheme the holy spirit and that like killed theyre own parents or something but in this world they are alot of bad things

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3. Sometimes i wonder if hell was created for satan and his angels like in this world is hell on earth from jealousy envy and yes they are bad people that rape kill little kids abuse kids but like we make mistakes and all sinners so people that like do bad things i mean they are evil people that dont beleive in god and blaspheme jesus and god so why do people should have to be in torment forever i mean they are also sexually immoral people and other stuff in this world

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4. I just wanna say I’m very thank for Jesus Christ what he has done for us and I’m keep praying to him i till day I die and have faith on him amen

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5. As much as I want to believe. The hell question still makes it impossible for me

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