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Mazty on 10 April 2013
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Slimebeast said:

There's no debate. You shouldn't read conspiracy theories and myths on the internet.

I'll make it simple and quote Wikipedia:

In the synoptic gospels Jesus uses the word Gehenna 11 times to describe the opposite to life in the Kingdom (Mark 9:43-48).[27] It is a place where both soul and body could be destroyed (Matthew 10:28) in "unquenchable fire" (Mark 9:43).

Gehenna is also mentioned in the Epistle of James 3:6, where it is said to set the tongue on fire, and the tongue in turn sets on fire the entire "course" or "wheel" of life.

The complete list of references is as follows:

  • Matthew 5:22: "....whoever shall say, "You fool," shall be guilty enough to go into the, 'Gehenna.'"
  • Matthew 5:29: "....it is better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to be thrown into, 'Gehenna.'"
  • Matthew 5:30: "....better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to go into, 'Gehenna.'"
  • Matthew 10:28: "....rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in, 'Gehenna.'"
  • Matthew 18:9: "It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than with two eyes to be thrown into the, 'Gehenna.'"
  • Matthew 23:15: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you... make one proselyte...twice as much a child of 'Gehenna' as yourselves."
  • Matthew 23:33, to the Pharisees: "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how shall you to escape the sentence of, 'Gehenna'?"
  • Mark 9:43: "It is better for you to enter life crippled, than having your two hands, to go into, 'Gehenna,' into the unquenchable fire."
  • Mark 9:45: "It is better for you to enter life lame, than having your two feet, to be cast into, 'Gehenna.'"
  • Mark 9:47: "It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into, 'Gehenna.'"
  • Luke 12:5: "....fear the One who, after He has killed has authority to cast into, 'Gehenna;' yes, I tell you, fear Him."
  • James 3:6: "And the tongue is a fire,...and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by, 'Gehenna.'"

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Knowing the scientific method and not swallowing religious rhetoric like a flagellant doesn't make me a conspiracy theorist ;)

None of that proves what I said wrong. L2theology. Again it backs up the taught idea that Jesus wasn't talking about magical places, but was being more relevant to the real world. You really don't know what you're talking about...Hellfire? No, just the fires in Ghenna. The wicked etc? He (apparently he) was talking about the shit existance that an immoral life would take you down and you'd end up there. Only later on did the Church turn Ghenna into a magical land that you magically go to when you die. 

Max King of the Wild said:
Anothony gets it. Not sure why matzy cant

 

Because you have fuck all proof that a guy called Jesus actually said any of what is in the Bible. Why can't you get that? It's simple. If I write a book and then claim "OMG JESUS WROTE IT" it doesn't make it so, does it?
Are you relgious by any chance as I feel that you would prefer not to see what I am saying rather than not being able to see what I am saying.