Path: paganini.bofh.team!tor-network!not-for-mail From: "NightBulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.bible Subject: Re: 5th request; Jw vatican on shape of cross Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:57:46 -0500 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <20231018225746.30dbc694.nospam@nightbulb.net> References: <787thilrsprec3puphncj1k1l0ke3ugeno@4ax.com> <651ee6d1$0$3083$1c4686b2@news.club.cc.cmu.edu> <75m2iiddm1ap1npgaeo71j5soqaiifn5ol@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="59160"; posting-host="UsdsZiYKRHXfHJF8iqyOmA.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:mVf8GhWLnMRSb8Hy/PEb7mO2tWzYdHNmSN2KkRbREBg= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-TOR-Router: sha256:MmEwYjpmNGMwOjE2Yzo1Ojox -- Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.bible:663357 On Sat, 07 Oct 2023 06:16:28 -0700 No one wrote: > On Oct 7, 2023, James wrote > (in article<75m2iiddm1ap1npgaeo71j5soqaiifn5ol@4ax.com>): > > > I stand by my last paragraph: > > > > Any changes made did not come from the Bible. It's the same with the > > Trinity and hellfire. They also are not in the Bible. False > > religions can change whatever they want. The bible doesn't change. > > Staurus meant an upright pole, and never changed. > > > > Sincerely James > > Deu 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the > lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set > on fire the foundations of the mountains. > > Mat 5:22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother > without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever > shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: > but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hellfire. > > Mat 18:9And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast itfrom > thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather > than having two eyes to be cast intohell fire. > The hellfire is metaphorical. Do you truly believe that Jesus literally meant to tear our your eyeball? The "eyeball" is your leader, or bishop, or source of information, or whatever your desire focuses upon. If it is corrupt, "tear it out." Cut out of your life (or your congregation) those things that lead you astray from the truth, lest you suffer consequences of evil. Hades is a metaphor for the state of the conscious spirit of man when it is disembodied and can no longer hide from conscious guilt for sin. In that state you can't salve your conscience, and it burns like fire awaiting the judgment. In the spirit realm you can't concoct elaborate lies to hide the truth about your deeds. Thus it is "hellfire". God does not literally put people in a literal furnace. That's just stupid. It would make God worse than Hitler and Stalin. God tries people in a spiritual fire, that exposes their sin and its consequences. -- NightBulb | https://nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch.