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Hellfire and the Underworld

Fear of punishment in an afterlife has haunted the dreams of mankind for millennia. Many ideas about this punishment have been put forth by various religions. But it might surprise you to know that the fear of the dark underworld where souls undergo judicial punishment by fire did not begin with Abrahamic religions, but from other religions and national groups. The fact that the earth's core is molten is indeed associated with the destruction in the lake of fire with Deuteronomy 32:22 , but that is merely an illustration of its destructiveness. (See DOES DEUTERONOMY 32:22 BURNING ALIVE IN HELLFIRE? below.) However, unlike the Trinity, or inherent immortality of the soul, it is understandable how hellfire could be read into the Scriptures given all the references to souls being tossed into the fire and certain entities being "tormented". In fact, Luke 16:19-31 and Revelation 14:9-11 understandably seem to provide a very clear representation of such. (You can look u

The Trinity/Binity, Part 15: Definitive Proof That Holy Spirit Is Not a Distinct Personage

Missing Where It Would Be Expected The holy spirit lacks any significant mention in relationship with Jesus' and the Father. At Matthew 24:36 [ pa | in ] Jesus said, "Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the Son, but only the Father." Where is the mention of the holy spirit here? Nobody else knows the day and hour, but "only the Father", and it mentions the Son, but why did Jesus not specify the holy spirit? Does it know or does it not? Well, nobody knows but the Father. Thus, only the Father is God. Holy spirit does not appear as a personage on or near the throne of God along with the lamb in heaven in the Revelation. ( Revelation 5:6 , 13 [ pa | in ] ; 6:16 [ pa | in ] ; 7:9, 10 [ pa | in ] , 17 [ pa | in ] ; 22:1 [ pa | in ] ) In fact, at Acts 7:55-56 [ pa | in ] , Stephen also observed Jesus at God's right hand, but again, no third figure. All he saw was Jesus sitting at the right hand of

The Trinity/Binity, Part 2: A Brief History of the Trinity and Binity

The first one to ever propose a polytheistic doctrine was none other than Satan himself in the garden of Eden. There, after Eve recited God's command prohibiting eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, Satan countered the woman, saying that by eating it, "you will be like God, knowing good and bad." ( Ge 3:1-4 [ pa | in ] ) Since then, polytheism has abounded, including triune gods and their humanoid avatars, incarnations and bodily appearances, even declaring humans to be equal to God or ascending to become part of God or godlike in "theosis". The teaching on triune Gods comes out of the nations, and originates with the Babylonian trinity of Astarte (Ashtoreth/Ishtar; Mother of God), Dagon (Chemosh; The All Father), and Tammuz (Milcom; The Sun God), whose symbol happened to be the cross. (It is also interesting to note that the Greek sun god, Adonis, whom Constantine worshiped, was also part of his own triune set of gods, and even h

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