I really want to know why seminaries still teach

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I really want to know why seminaries still teach eternal punishment in hell when it is easily shown that the doctrine is a hurtful pagan falsehood. Please forward this message to someone who can give an honest and straight forward Biblical answer.
Blessings and thank you so much,

(name withheld)


Dear (name withheld),

Mikey has read your email and asked me to respond.

The reason it is still being taught is to instill fear. What better way is there to control people than to have them question every thought they have and every action they take and wonder whether it will send them to heaven or hell?
I, too, am researching this concept of hell and I’m not finished with it. I find it very hard to believe that Jesus who taught love as the greatest commandment would send anyone to eternal pain and suffering.

I’ve been sitting here for over an hour and trying to figure out how to answer your question biblically. It’s very hard to do with all of the different translations and translations of translations of the bible so I am giving you one of the links I have:

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?85849-Hell-does-not-exist-according-to-the-bible!

I hope this helps you in some way.

Again – to answer the first part of your email – it is for control and power over people.

God bless,

Pastor Joan
MRFF Advisory Board Member


Dear Pastor Joan

It is nice you have been thinking about the attributes of God. They are so good that I never, and I am eighty two now, could even consider eternal punishment in a place, or condition, that tradition calls hell. But it was when I was age 58 that I begin to read to see what others felt.

One answer I got from my question was this: MONEY MONEY MONEY. And I believe that is why the seminaries still teach it.

You may like to look at thees pages on the web. The last one is my page, but I have several:

http://www.godsplanforall.com/jesusdidnotteachhell

http://home.earthlink.net/~btodd1/k7vhq.html

I have yet to look at the site you sent but I wanted to get my reply off to you first.

Blessings,
(name withheld)


Dear (name withheld),

Thank you for your response and links. They have confirmed my own research and for that I am grateful.

I am one of many that responds to the emails that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) receives and I must tread lightly because we do not want to get into a theological debate. Most of the emails are from Christians who have condemned us to hell and relish in the thought of our suffering. I am shocked when I read what they write in such an unChristian manner.

You are correct about money being the driving force but I believe it is just one part of it. The others are power and control. Once you have these two the money flows in through fear and guilt.

It is comforting to see a fellow Christian on his own journey to get to the bottom of the truth of the Bible. We are told to be like the Bereans to search the scriptures daily to see if what we are taught is truth. I, too, am on this journey and a fellow traveler with you.

I have 11 different translations of the Bible plus a Masoretic Text, a Tanakh, a daily Bible, a Greek-English New Testament. an Amplified Bible, Young’s and Strong’s Concordances and many research papers and study books.

I, like you, have come to the same conclusion on hell.

May God bless your socks off!!!

Your Sister in Christ,

Pastor Joan

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