Hell

Are all Wicked People Going to Hell?

This evil teaching of the Church derogates God into an alien monster, and causes believers by the hundreds of millions to live in fear and mental turmoil and emotional anguish over presumed lost loved ones who are thought to be suffering day and night in this fabled hellhole of eternal torture.

But since this doctrine is bogus; a damnable heresy; an invention of depraved minds; a theological lie; a Christian hoax; it thus becomes, THE ULTIMATE BLASPHEMY by those who revel in and teach this spiritual nonsense.

Hell has NOTHING to do with fire. "Hell fire" mentioned in the KJV is from the Greek word "Gehenna."  It is a valley south of Jerusalem. It used to be the city garbage dump. As such it was on fire.

The word "hell" in the KJV is translated from the Greek word "Hades" which means the UNSEEN or etymologically, UN=PERCEIVE or IMPERCEPTIBLE. 

There can NOT be feelings, torture, pain, etc., in a place that by its very name means to have NO PERCEPTION OF ANYTHING! People must first be resurrected from Hades before they will have perception again. 

The Greeks did not invent the idea of a hell of pain, misery, and punishment at death  the Egyptians did.

The Greek hell of hades was plagiarized from the Egyptian hell of amenti. And so when you read the English word "hell" in a King James Bible where it was translated from the Greek word for hell, hades, you are really reading about the Egyptian hell of amenti seeing that the Greeks plagiarized their hell from Egypt.

Both hells are the same in many ways, plus we have the admission of historians that the Greeks borrowed (plagiarized) the Egyptian hell of amenti and fashioned it to suit their religion and government."

"The Amenti of the Egyptians originated the classic fables of Hades and Tartarus [the 'hell' of the Greeks]." (From: Doctrine of Eternal Punishment, Chapt. 3, P. 7).

Israel knew of the teachings, doctrines, and practices of the pagan Egyptians after living there for four centuries, otherwise, there would have been no reason at all for God to instruct them to not be doing those things which they saw and heard in Egypt. (Where do you suppose they came up with the idea of making a golden calf to worship at Mt. Sinai?) [2] They learned the teachings regarding hell from the pagans (Canaanites) when they possessed the land.

They not only learned pagan religion, but actually practiced the rituals of the pagans in such places as Tophet in the Valley of Hinnom. [3]

They learned these pagan doctrines pertaining to an eternal hell from their Assyrian and the Babylonian captors during their long years of captivity.

By examining scripture more closely and using scripture against scripture we can prove that Hell is not a real place and we can show you further contradicitons in the Bible which you should now be aware of after studying chapter 1. 

Here is one example: 

"And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." Revelations 20:14  King James Bible.

Ask yourself if the lake of fire is often referred to as hell, how can hell be thrown into hell?

Question: Is God a monster and a torturer or is He a God of Love?

The Immortal Soul - Heaven and Hell 

Traditional beliefs about heaven and hell are based on an underlying teaching—that everyone has an immortal soul that must go somewhere when physical life ends. 



This belief isn’t unique to traditional Christianity. “All religions affirm that there is an aspect of the human person that lives on after the physical life has ended” (World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts, Andrew Wilson, editor, 1995, p. 225).

In other words, in general, all religions believe in some kind of immortal essence, a spirit that lives on separately after the physical body dies. Most professing Christians call this the immortal soul.

The typical views of heaven and hell have as their foundation the belief in the immortal soul that leaves the body at death.

Many are surprised to learn that the words “immortal” and “soul” appear together nowhere in the Bible.

“Theologians frankly admit that the expression ‘immortal soul’ is not in the Bible but confidently state that Scripture assumes the immortality of every soul” (Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes, 1994, p. 22, emphasis added throughout).




Considering how confidently theologians hold to this doctrine, it’s quite surprising that such an important assumption is not spelled out in the Bible. If it isn’t found in the Bible, where did the idea originate?

Not from the Bible but from Greek philosophy

The New Bible Dictionary offers this background on the nonbiblical nature of the immortal-soul doctrine:

“The Greeks thought of the body as a hindrance to true life and they looked for the time when the soul would
be free from its shackles. They conceived of life after death in terms of the immortality of the soul”

Soul in the Hebrew Scriptures

The Hebrew word most often translated into English as “soul” in the Bible is nephesh. When used in the
Bible, nephesh does not mean a spirit entity or the spirit within a person. Rather, it usually means a physical, living, breathing creature. Occasionally it conveys a related meaning such as breath, life or person. 



A BREATHING CREATURE (nephesh) is a person or an animal in a solid form. It is not a solid form which has a spirit in it. 

Notice the account of the creation of sea life: “And God created great whales, and every living creature (NEPHESH) that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:21, King James Version).










Question: Traditional beliefs about heaven and hell are based on an underlying teaching—that everyone has an immortal soul that must go somewhere when physical life ends. True or False?

Lets look at what Jesus meant when he reffered to hell in the Bible.

Do Some Bible Verses Teach  We Have an Immortal Soul?

Some believe that various scriptures support belief in an immortal soul. Let’s consider some of these passages and understand what they really say.

Matthew 10:28: Destroying soul and body in hell?

“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is
able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).

Is Jesus teaching in this verse that the soul lives on after death and is immortal?

Not at all. If you look at this scripture closely, you see that Jesus is actually saying that the soul can
be destroyed.

Jesus is here warning about the judgment of God.

He says not to fear those who can destroy only the physical human body (soma in the Greek), but fear Him (God) who is also able to destroy the soul (psuche)—here denoting the person’s physical being with its consciousness (awareness).

Simply stated, Christ was showing that when one man kills another the resulting death is only temporary; God can raise anyone to conscious life again either soon after death (see Matthew 9:23-25; 27:52; John 11:43-44; Acts 9:40-41; 20:9-11) or in the age to come after Christ returns to the earth.

The person who has died is not ultimately gone forever. We must have a proper fear of God, who alone can remove one’s physical life and all possibility of any later resurrection to life. When God destroys one in “hell,” (The Grave) He allows that person to remain in the grave. In doing this that person’s destruction is permanent.

What is the “hell” spoken of in this verse? We covered this already in Chapter 2. But here is a reminder:

The Greek word used here is gehenna, which comes from the combination of two Hebrew words, gai and hinnom, meaning “Valley of Hinnom.”



The term originally referred to a valley on the south side of Jerusalem in which pagan deities were worshipped.

Because of its reputation as an abominable place, it later became a garbage dump where refuse was burned.

Gehenna became synonymous with “a place of burning”—a site used to dispose of useless things.
Only God can utterly destroy human existence and eliminate any hope of a resurrection. 

The Scriptures teach that God will in the future burn up the incorrigibly wicked in an all consuming fire, turning them to ashes (Malachi 4:3)—annihilating them forever. There is no mention of ongoing torture.







1 Thessalonians 5:23: Spirit, soul and body?

Many are confused by an expression the apostle Paul uses in one of his letters to the Thessalonians:

“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”

What does Paul mean by the phrase “spirit, soul, and body”?

By “spirit” (pneuma), Paul means the nonmaterial component that is joined to the physical human brain to form the human mind. This spirit is not conscious of itself. Rather, it gives the brain the ability to reason, create and analyze our existence (see also Job 32:8; 1 Corinthians 2:11).



By “soul” (psuche), Paul means the person’s physical being with its consciousness. By “body” (soma), Paul means a physical body of flesh. In short, Paul wished for the whole person, including the mind, vitality of conscious life and physical body, to be sanctified and blameless.

Revelation 6:9-10: Souls of slain crying out?

“When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?’” (Revelation 6:9-10).

To understand this scripture, we must remember the context. John was witnessing a vision while he was “in the Spirit” (Revelation 4:2). Under inspiration he was seeing future events depicted in symbolism. The fifth seal is figurative of the Great Tribulation, a time of world turmoil preceding Christ’s return. In this vision, John sees under the altar the martyred believers who sacrificed their lives for their faith in God.

These souls figuratively cry out, “Avenge our blood!” This can be compared to Abel’s blood metaphorically crying out to God from the ground (Genesis 4:10).

Though neither dead souls nor blood can actually speak,

These phrases figuratively demonstrate that a God of justice will not forget the evil deeds of mankind perpetrated against His righteous followers.

This verse does not describe living souls that have gone to heaven. The Bible confirms that “no one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven [Jesus Christ]” (John 3:13).

Even righteous King David, a man after God’s own heart (Acts 13:22), was described by Peter as being
“dead and buried” (Acts 2:29), not alive in heaven or some other state or location (verse 34).









Question: Is Jesus teaching in Matthew 10:28 that the soul goes to hell after death?

If you have enjoyed the eye opener study on Hell, please have a look at our brief study on heaven.