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- Old Timer TooLv 79 years ago
If you accept the Bible as a valid indicator (if you don't, then it doesn't matter for most of us), then they go to a spirit prison, where they are taught the same message that Jesus taught while on the earth. They have the choice to accept or reject that message.
Again, according to the Bible, they will be raised in the last resurrection (the resurrection of the unjust) and then they will be judged according to their works, just like the rest of humanity was judged before them.
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- 9 years ago
No, but Adam and Eve were the very first disobedient ones in the Bible, and as such they are credited with the death of every human death since, right? (Genesis 3:2-3,6; Romans 5:12) Well, what did God tell them would happen to them? (Genesis 3:17,19) What makes anyone think he changed his mind? (Malachi 3:6a)
Side Note: The terms Gehenna, Sheol and Hades (the latter two simply meaning the common grave of mankind) have often been mistranslated as hell in many Bibles. Let's look at some examples at Mark 9:43, Isaiah 14:15 and Acts 2:27 in three different Bibles:
World English Bible
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,
New International Version (©1984)
But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.
New Living Translation (©2007)
For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your Holy One to rot in the grave.
English Revised Version
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.
All of these are rendered 'hell' in the King James Version and obviously it changes ppls understanding when rendered correctly. We all know what a grave is, but what about Gehenna? Here is some more info:
The valley of Hinnom lay to the west and south of ancient Jerusalem. (Jos 15:8; 18:16; Jer 19:2, 6) Under the later kings of Judah it was used for the idolatrous worship of the pagan god Molech, to which god human sacrifices were offered by fire. (2Ch 28:3; 33:6; Jer 7:31, 32; 32:35) To prevent its use again for such religious purposes, faithful King Josiah had the valley polluted, particularly the part called Topheth.—2Ki 23:10.
The Jewish commentator David Kimḥi (1160?-1235?), in his comment on Ps 27:13, gives the following historical information concerning “Gehinnom”: “And it is a place in the land adjoining Jerusalem, and it is a loathsome place, and they throw there unclean things and carcasses. Also there was a continual fire there to burn the unclean things and the bones of the carcasses. Hence, the judgment of the wicked ones is called parabolically Gehinnom.”
The valley of Hinnom became the dumping place and incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem. Bodies of dead animals were thrown in to be consumed in the fires to which sulphur, or brimstone, was added to assist the burning. Also bodies of executed criminals, who were considered undeserving of a decent burial in a memorial tomb, were thrown in. If such dead bodies landed in the fire they were consumed, but if their carcasses landed upon a ledge of the deep ravine their putrefying flesh became infested with worms, or maggots, which did not die until they had consumed the fleshy parts, leaving only the skeletons.
No living animals or human creatures were pitched into Gehenna to be burned alive or tormented. Hence, the place could never symbolize an invisible region where human souls are tormented eternally in literal fire or attacked forever by undying worms. Because the dead criminals cast there were denied a decent burial in a memorial tomb, the symbol of the hope of a resurrection, Gehenna was used by Jesus and his disciples to symbolize everlasting destruction, annihilation from God’s universe, or “second death,” an eternal punishment.
Therefore, to have one’s dead body cast into Gehenna was considered the worst kind of punishment. From the literal Gehenna and its significance, the symbol of the ‘lake burning with fire and sulphur’ was drawn.—Re 19:20; 20:10, 14, 15; 21:8.
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Source(s): Bible, insight book - ?Lv 49 years ago
They are still in God's memory for John 5:28,29 says " Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment".
They are absolved of sin Romans 6:23 " For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our lord".
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- Anonymous9 years ago
Heaven.
But look at the amount of thumbs-down I get from people who practice, "the Omniscient is too stupid to create to His Standards on Conception Day."
Worse, "The Omniscient is too stupid to know what He is creating on Conception Day, and must wait until Death Day to figure it out--then, being as ignorant a before, finds Himself still guessing."
- ?Lv 59 years ago
To a Rehab Center before going to Heaven... by then Heacen will be full of prostitutes and Fundies need to behave..
Mat 21:31
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth*
(*NO BULL CRAP!)
…the PROSTITUTES*
(*including gay and lesbian harlots)
are entering the Kingdom of God*
(*without any confession, repentance or Purgatory, even BEFORE Jesus Christ had a chance to be crucified for anybody)
ahead of you*
(*the rest!)
- 9 years ago
They go to the grave just the same as good people.