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“We Believe in…”
GOD
SATAN
HELL
UNITED STATES
62.8%
45.4%
49.6%
GREAT BRITAIN
23.8%
12.7%
12.8%
NORWAY
20.1%
13.1%
11.4%
WEST GERMANY
27.3%
9.5%
9.3%
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SURVEYW.
PROGRAM
(1991)
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Don McClain
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 Atheist / Humanist – No
such thing - -  Buddhist - Hell is temporary
for its inhabitants – Life is cyclic.
 Jehovah’s Witnesses Teach that man does not have an
eternal soul –
 Seventh Day Adventist’s
– Teach that eternal existence is
conditional.
 Catholicism – Purgatory Second chance Don McClain
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He has done a work for
the Seventh Day
Adventists denying the
biblical concept of the
eternal punishment of
the wicked.
He was a leader in the
Grace-Unity movement
among churches of
Christ
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“The wicked,
following whatever
degree and duration
of pain that God may
justly inflict, will
finally and truly die,
perish and become
extinct for ever and
ever”
(Fudge, 1982, p. 425).
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“Jesus spoke of
eternal punishment but
He never hinted of
continual torture of
souls that live on and on
in some state of anguish
and torment.”
(Goad’s articles occasionally
appear in Liberal Christian
Journals).
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“God will destroy (the
soul). Not punish it.
Not dangle with it.
Not torture it.”
(“A Christian Response to the
New Age Movement,” Tape 3). [F.
LaGard Smith has also published
a book entitled “The After Life”
in which he has denied the
eternal conscious punishment of
the wicked soul].
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 John Clayton is a popular
speaker among institutional
churches.
 Gave Fudge’s book an
enthusiastic recommendation
while himself confessing: “I
have never been able to be
comfortable with the position
that a person who rejected
God should suffer forever and
ever” (The Spiritual Sword,
April 1997, p. 35).
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This verse [Rev. 20:10] is often
quoted to prove the eternal
existence, suffering, and torment of
wicked humanity. It should be
mentioned of whom John spoke:
Satan, the beast, and the false
prophet. Wicked humans are not
mentioned here, but are dealt with
in the verses which follow, 20:14-15.
The beast and false prophet were
cast alive into the lake, as was the
devil. It was these three who would
be tormented day and night for ever
(Homer Hailey, God’s Judgments and
Punishments, p. 177).
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The first death pertained
to the physical life and
death; the second
pertained to end of each.
Death and Hades and the
wicked, those whose
names were not written in
the book of life, existence
came to an end in the lake
of fire (Ibid., p. 178).
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Sodom and Gomorrah left the
spiritual or moral realm in which God
intended man should live, for a lifestyle
of lust. God rained brimstone and fire
upon them, totally destroying the
cities. The destruction was so complete
that their location is uncertain, not a
vestige of either city has yet been
confirmed. Jude says, These “are set
forth as an example, suffering the
punishment of eternal fire” (v. 7)…If
they serve as an example, what do they
teach except that those who suffer the
punishment of eternal fire are to exist
no more? (Ibid., pp. 141-142).
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 In order to be a faithful steward
of the Gospel as an evangelist,
one must preach “all the counsel
of God” (Acts 20:27).
 “All the counsel of God” includes
Bible teaching about Hell.
 In order to be a faithful steward
of the Gospel as an evangelist,
one must preach Bible teaching
about Hell.
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Three different Greek words for the
term hell in the KJV:
 Hades –(11) The unseen realm – realm
of disembodied spirits - Ac 2:27, 31;
Rev 20:13
 Tartarus – (1) chains of darkness, to be
reserved for judgment; 2Pe 2:4
 Gehenna - (12) Mt 10:28; Mk 9:43,45,47
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B
O
D
Y
Luke 16:22
Luke 23:43
GRAVE
Luke 16:25,26; Rev 1:18;
20:13
B
O
D
Y
Tartarus
B
O
D
Y
Mk 9:43
Luke 16:23,24; 2
Peter 2:4
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OF THE 12 OCCURRENCES OF GEHENNA JESUS
IT USED 11 TIMES.
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Revelation 14:10-11 (NKJV)
10 . . . He shall be tormented with
fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels and in the
presence of the Lamb. 11 And the
smoke of their torment ascends
forever and ever; and they have no
rest day or night, who worship the
beast and his image, and whoever
receives the mark of his name.”
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Everlasting Life
In Heaven
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Everlasting Life
In Heaven
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 Obey the Gospel (2 Thess. 1:7-10)
 “Hear the word” (Rom. 10:17)
 “Believe the truth” (Mk. 16:15, 16)
 “Repent” (Acts 2:38)
 “Confess Jesus” (Acts 8:37; Rom.
10:8, 9)
 “Baptism into Christ” (Acts 2:41)
 Patiently continue (Rom. 2:7)
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