God's justice and judgment in Abrahamic religions

**~~LoLeL~~** · 07-01-2018, 06:31 AM

Judaism: All non-Jewish => Hell
Christianity: All non-Christians => Hell
Islam: All non-Muslims => Hell

According to Abrahamic religions, a good non-believer deserves burning in hell while a believer (even the bad ones) will earn an eternal life in heaven. Am I wrong about Abrahamism and the God in ARs?

idioteque · 07-04-2018, 07:28 PM

http://www.religionfacts.com/charts/...-islam-judaism

**Dragoon** · 07-05-2018, 06:54 PM

Christianity

The Christian doctrine of hell derives from passages in the New Testament. The word hell does not appear in the Greek New Testament; instead one of three words is used: the Greek words Tartarus or Hades, or the Hebrew word Gehinnom.

In the Septuagint and New Testament the authors used the Greek term Hades for the Hebrew Sheol, but often with Jewish rather than Greek concepts in mind. In the Jewish concept of Sheol, such as expressed in Ecclesiastes,[36] Sheol or Hades is a place where there is no activity. However, since Augustine, Christians have believed that the souls of those who die either rest peacefully, in the case of Christians, or are afflicted, in the case of the damned, after death until the resurrection.[37]

While these three terms are translated in the KJV as "hell" these three terms have three very different meanings.

Hades has similarities to the Old Testament term, Sheol as "the place of the dead" or "grave". Thus, it is used in reference to both the righteous and the wicked, since both wind up there eventually.[48]
Gehenna refers to the "Valley of Hinnom", which was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem. It was a place where people burned their garbage and thus there was always a fire burning there. Bodies of those deemed to have died in sin without hope of salvation (such as people who committed suicide) were thrown there to be destroyed.[49] Gehenna is used in the New Testament as a metaphor for the final place of punishment for the wicked after the resurrection.[50]
Tartaróō (the verb "throw to Tartarus", used of the fall of the Titans in Illiad 14.296) occurs only once in the New Testament in II Peter 2:4, where it is parallel to the use of the noun form in 1 Enoch as the place of incarceration of the fallen angels. It mentions nothing about human souls being sent there in the afterlife.

The Roman Catholic Church defines Hell as "a state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed." One finds oneself in Hell as the result of dying in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love, becoming eternally separated from him by one's own free choice[51] immediately after death.[52] In the Roman Catholic Church, many other Christian churches, such as the Baptists and Episcopalians, and some Greek Orthodox churches,[53] Hell is taught as the final destiny of those who have not been found worthy after the general resurrection and last judgment,[54][55][56] where they will be eternally punished for sin and permanently separated from God.

The nature of this judgment is inconsistent with many Protestant churches teaching the saving comes from accepting Jesus Christ as their savior, while the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Churches teach that the judgment hinges on both faith and works. However, many Liberal Christians throughout Liberal Protestant and Anglican churches believe in universal reconciliation (see below) even though it might contradict more evangelical views in their denomination.[57]

Christian mortalism is the doctrine that all men and women, including Christians, must die, and do not continue and are not conscious after death. Therefore, annihilationism includes the doctrine that "the wicked" are also destroyed rather than tormented forever in traditional "Hell" or the lake of fire. Christian mortalism and annihilationism are directly related to the doctrine of conditional immortality, the idea that a human soul is not immortal unless it is given eternal life at the second coming of Christ and resurrection of the dead.

It is not Roman Catholic dogma that anyone is in Hell.[65] Also, the 1993 Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) seems to allow room for new understanding. In 1033 it states: 'This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell”’. Then in 1035 its use of quotation marks can imply the metaphorical nature of the description, and the words that follow are certainly open to interpretation: "… they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire." The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God" (CCC 1035). During an Audience in 1999, Pope John Paul II commented: "images of hell that Sacred Scripture presents to us must be correctly interpreted. They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy." [66]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell#Christianity

**~~LoLeL~~** · 07-06-2018, 06:21 AM

^Summarize it

**Dragoon** · 07-06-2018, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by LoLeL

^Summarize it

There are different "versions" of hell. The English language like King James Bible puts those meanings under one heading.
Various factions of Christianity see hell differently.
Something like that?

**Larali** · 07-06-2018, 05:38 PM

Wow, when I read the Bible I thought I remembered a bunch of verses about having no fear. But maybe I was just drunk.

**Loki** · 07-06-2018, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by LoLeL

Judaism: All non-Jewish => Hell
Christianity: All non-Christians => Hell
Islam: All non-Muslims => Hell

According to Abrahamic religions, a good non-believer deserves burning in hell while a believer (even the bad ones) will earn an eternal life in heaven. Am I wrong about Abrahamism and the God in ARs?

Well, religions aside... it is true that there is a HELL... I'm afraid to crack the truth to you... but it is reality. If you do not know the saving grace of Jesus Christ, that is what your destiny is. I don't know what else to tell you.