If you teach that people can only choose heaven when God enables them to, and it is God Himself who makes the decision not to enable the doomed to go to heaven, then in fact He does choose some people
for Gehenna.
Not exact matches
The valley of Hinnom (
Gehenna) was outside the walls of Jerusalem,
for a time thesite of idolatrous worship, including child sarcrifice, In the first century
Gehenna was being used as the incinerator
for the filth of Jerusalem.
In fact, it's so mistranslated somehow they believe a «hell» exists when there is only sheol and
gehenna and
for the pagan audience of its time, hades, places NOT spoken of being eternal.
Jesus Christ — By the time of Jesus,
Gehenna was a name used
for the place of final punishment.
I don't see how one can see the reference to
Gehenna (commonly translated by hellfire) literally in Mat 5:22 unless they also take the coucil (which is the Sanhedrin) literally
for the insult.
I don't think our contemporary regime of lite reading
for college students is a one - way ticket to
Gehenna, but colleges could do better and parents could help them by including some little lit among the bedtime stories.
In the NT the word
gehenna is presented as the place in which the unrighteous will be thrown after the last judgment — a place of matyrdom
for both body and soul as declared in Matt 5:29 - 30.
Gehenna was thus always associated with a place of bodily and spiritual punishment, not only
for the Jews, but
for all evil people.
His word
for it,
Gehenna, «the Valley of Hinnom,» is familiar in the writings of the later Judaism.
On the one side, Christians were to exercise undiscourageable goodwill toward evil men, even praying
for those who slew them when no other manner of expressing goodwill remained; but, on the other side, the new faith retained the hopeless torture chamber of
Gehenna, where punishment was supposed to go on in endless agony long after moral purpose in the torture had been lost.
«Now I will continue expressly pointing out to (indicating and even underlining
for) you people [him] of whom you folks should be made fearful: Be made to fear (be wary of; have respect
for) the person [who], after the killing off, continues possessing (having and holding) the right (or: authority) to throw you into the Valley of Hinnom (Greek:
Gehenna; = the City Dump outside of Jerusalem; [= to dishonor you by giving no burial; to treat you as a criminal]-RRB-.
2017 UPDATE: After further study and discussion with people in the RedeemingGod.com discipleship group, it is interesting to note that the word
for «hell» is
Gehenna, which is the smoking trash valley outside of Jerusalem, and the word
for «destroy» is appolumi, which is used in Matthew 10:6 in reference to the «lost» sheep of Israel, and then also in 10:39 (cf. 16:25) when Jesus says if you «lose» your life
for his sake, you will find it.
We reject, as ideas not rooted in Judaism, the beliefs both in bodily resurrection and in
Gehenna and Eden as abodes
for everlasting punishments and rewards.»
«Jesus often speaks of «
Gehenna» of «the unquenchable fire» reserved
for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost.
Here's the first official trailer (+ poster art)
for Hiroshi Katagiri's
Gehenna, direct from YouTube:
Gehenna is directed by Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Katagiri, an FX legend working
for years at Spectral Motion and Stan Winston Studios, now making his feature directorial debut after a few short films previously.
Ahead of its release next month, a trailer, poster and batch of images have arrived online
for the upcoming supernatural horror
Gehenna: Where Death Lives.
Uncork'd Entertainment has released the first official trailer
for a super creepy horror thriller titled
Gehenna, or
Gehenna: Where Death Lives in full, from Japanese director and SFX veteran Hiroshi Katagiri.
Enter then Road to
Gehenna, an expansion pack
for The Talos Principle which proves that last year's game was no fluke, Road to
Gehenna once more brings those same philosophical musings and brutally clever puzzles to the forefront and does so with the levels of flair and visual flourish that were so evident in its parent title.
Enter then Road to
Gehenna, an expansion pack
for The Talos Principle which proves that last year's game was no fluke, Road to
Gehenna once more brings those same philosophical musings and brutally clever puzzles to the forefront, doing so with the levels of flair and visual flourish that were so evident in its parent title.