Why do so many Christians say hell is not in the Bible when Jesus himself said:?

Nobody warned more about the need to avoid the horrors of hell than did Jesus Christ, in the Bible!

List of scriptures where Jesus warned of hell – Matthew 5:21-30; 10:26-28; 13:40-43; 18:7-9; 23:33; 25:41

Mark 9:43-48 Luke 12:4-6; 16:19-31

No way was Jesus just speaking of 'soul sleep' in the grave!

Go to these links to get clued us as to why there is a hell to shun and a heaven to gain. AiH

Here's why, Jehovah witnesses are not Christians sorry about that, they use a modern bible version which changed the word "hell" for "grave" I'm not pretty sure all I know, is missing things and instead of Jesus has Jehovah, which is the father instead of Jesus.

So yeah they show you that the bible doesn't say "hell" and is true tell them to show you a KJV bible version where the word hell is everywhere.

This Christian has known two individuals that Jesus took and showed them Hell.....one took into the fire and a man came begging for a drop of water and she said Jesus without remorse told him, "He made the choice" the second he took to the entrance where Satan has his thrown and he said Satan pointed his finger at him and said "I want you." and I had a vision where there was swirling what I thought was Lava but it was position like a door and wife's dad and his brother held hands as they enter the swirling whatever and was no more.....I asked myself why is Hell and Fire needed and the answer I trust is the knowledge everybody born has been given a measure of God's Holy Spirit and it takes fire to remove it that we can die....

The Christians don't say that. However, the atheists constantly ramble about Hell being an eternal place of punishment where demons torture humans forever with fire. What Christians argue is the cartoonish version of Hell which is always thrown at us is not Biblical.

I think your Bible passage just proved this. Hell is a furnace that destroys the body and soul.

Hell, as your cult describes it, is not in the Bible in the language that Jesus spoke. Your Bible translates "Gehenna" and "hades" eisegetically. Unless your Bible is KJV, it has changed the wording of Revelation 20:13-15:

"13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."

The leaders of your cult know very well that the Gehenna of Matthew 10:28, (the valley outside the walls of Jerusalem where corpses of executed criminals were incinerated along with the rest of their garbage), is the parallel of the lake of fire, not of hell or hades, in Revelation 20. They know that, as it says, hell or hades is only cast into the lake of fire when hell delivers up the dead in it, so there are no dead in hell when it is cast into the lake of fire. They know that the dead are only judged when they are delivered from hell, and those who are then sentenced aren't cast into the lake of fire until they are judged.

However, don't expect your cult leaders to tell you that. If you no longer fear "hellfire", they will no longer have mind-control over you.

When you say Jesus himself said do you realize that none of his followers wrote any of his sayings down. Long after the alleged death someone who never met him started writing stories of him. So you are arguing with someone about what a man who died with no written record of his sayings said about where he went after he died, just before he came back to life? A guy who was not inspirational enough to have his says written down but anyone who says "Jesus says" can be trusted?

From the outside this looks like two crazy people arguing about what there invisible friends are talking about. Clearly you are both showing your nuts.

Was it originally hell? What was the original word used? Also, if the body and soul are destroyed, it means there is no eternal hellfire because the body and soul are destroyed. If you no longer have a body or soul, then just what the heck do you think is burning forever and ever? There is nothing left to burn, is there?

Who knows? Jesus warned more on Hell than He ever talked about Heaven.

I do not know.

Jesus frequently speaks of hell, although he does not use that word. One example:

Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.’

Then they will answer and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?’

He will answer them, ‘Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’ And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” (Matthew 25:4146)

Today most mainstream, mature Christians believe hell is permanent separation from God, not literal torture. We define hell as the state of complete and final self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed, reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives. In other words, if you do not want to be with God forever then God will respect your free will decision. 

No one really knows what hell is like. It has been described by people who have not been there as everything from flames to a frozen lake (Dante). 

"You can check out any time you like but you can never leave." 

-- Hotel California, Don Felder, Don Henley, and Glenn Lewis Frey 

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 1023 through 1029. 

With love in Christ. 

The Greek says Gehenna. All of the different words and concepts got warped into one consistent "Hell" in the KJV. It's inaccurate, and reading "Hell" as the concept of "eternal Hell" is a total anachronism.