From: "H Dickmann" 


"old man joe"  wrote in message
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>   that any pope ever opened a real Bible is questionable...


That you have any brains is questionable.




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> someone claiming to be the exact representation of Jesus Christ and
> fall down in front of plaster idols and pray to them is certainly not
> of God, but of Satan.
>
>  what the pope is really saying is that everyone who is not a
> Catholic is going to hell.  their writings all say that.  they think
> they have exclusive rights to heaven. Catholics dying in sins burn in
> Purgatory for a while, then they go to heaven. they can't loose.
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>  very few will ever study the Bible deeply enough to know what hell
> is all about.  they're not curious enough to know enough to separate
> the worldly concepts of hell from the Biblical doctrine of hell.  that
> place called hell is not as the world perceives it, paints pictures of
> it, or sells books about it.
>
>   no one at this time is in hell because Judgement Day has not yet
> come. ( Ro. 2:16; Acts 17:31; Rev. 20:11-15; et al )  there is only
> one ' hell ' and that is referred to in the Bible as The Lake of Fire.
> this is where the unbeliever will go after he is judged, not before.
> he is judged on Judgement Day.
>
>  and this is because God will be vindicated on that Day.  Ps. 51:4;
> Isa. 11:4; Ez. 24:14, et al
>
>  the elect who have physically passed away are with Christ in
> heaven... the non-elect are physically dead and out of the realm of
> this earth... that is to say... the rising and setting of the sun
> which marks days have ceased for them... they have no cognisance of
> time or reality... they are simply awaiting Judgement Day.
>
>  they are not burning in hell with ugly and powerful demons eating
> them and poking them with pitchforks while flames of fire are burning
> them.  when their physical body dies the next time they are cognizant
> is when they are raised from the dead to face Jesus Christ God Eternal
> on Judgement Day.
>
>  because these have found no mercy in life, they will find themselves
> cast into the Lake of Fire for all eternity.  it can not be that these
> will have a flesh and bones type of body when cast into the Lake of
> Fire since the human body will quickly vaporize in fire.  these will
> have some sort of spiritual body so as to endure that place forever.
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>  it would take a book devoted to the subject of what hell really is
> to illustrate all the verses which speak to the subject of what God
> means when using such words as;  ' hell, Sheol, grave, pit, Hades,
> death, the depths, the Lake of Fire, torment, etc. etc.
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> " and as many as had been appointed to eternal life, believed."
> Acts 13:48

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