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Is Hell a real place or a metaphor to deter evil-doers?

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Hell is as real as you are! If you want to you can call it a metaphor, but you would only be deceiving yourself. Hell is not a representation of another place to be presented as something like doing time out for being bad. No, it is a place to spend your eternity in. Each and everyone of us is going to spend eternity somewhere. We are all destined to eternity.

Whether you believe in GOD or not does not matter, the bible strictly says "None believers will go into the judgment seat of GOD"; there the books will be open to them and their life will be flashed before their eyes. One question will be asked of them; "What did you do with MY SON, Jesus Christ? As their life is running in fast pace in front of them the reel will stop at every opportunity that was given to that person to accept Jesus Christ into their life. From the time of understanding to their last breath, all the opportunities will be rerun and when they are found wanting, judgment will be issued; Guilty as charged and the condemned person will be ushered into Hell.

When I was a teenager, I had a friend who loved to put bumper stickers on his car. One I remember most said, "Heaven does not want me and Hell is afraid I'll take over". Well nothing could be further from the truth. That statement claims that there will be chaos or lack of order in Hell. Not so, my heathen friends, not so. Jesus Christ himself will be the warden. No one will be allowed to make a move in hell. Why because is it hell. There is no freedom in hell. Once the devil is taken out of the world, he will also be there, but no one will know exactly where because he will fall in just like everybody else. There is a space designated for everyone who WANTS to go there. GOD does not send anybody to hell, YOU send you to hell. GOD wants no one to go to hell, that is why he sent his only begotten son, to die on the cross for mine and your sins. He took upon himself ALL the sins of the world, already committed and those that were to be committed. The only thing that will keep you out of hell will be to accept Jesus Christ into your life. Buddha will not keep you out of hell, Islam will not keep you out of hell, Scientology will not clear you enough to keep you out of hell, Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness and all the other ism's will only condemn you to hell. The only way to get out of going to hell is by having a "RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR". Nothing else will do, non believers will say that there is


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