Fear of going to hell ?

Well you can stop being afraid of going to hell, because there is no such thing.

Hell in English is translated from the Hebrew language (Sheol) which means the grave.

Sheol is an unfamiliar term to many. It is a Hebrew word of uncertain derivation. Many religions teach that the dead are still alive, but as the inspired Word of God shows, those in Sheol are dead, without consciousness. Sheol is the common grave of mankind.

Collier’s Encyclopedia says concerning Hell: First it stands for the Hebrew Sheol of the Old Testament and the Greek Hades of the Septuagint and New Testament.

Since Sheol in Old Testament times referred simply to the abode of the dead and suggested no moral distinctions, the word hell, as understood today, is not a happy translation.

The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth.

It is neither normal nor healthy to obsess about a fear of going to hell. Especially if you are a Christian. That's because our faith is based on love, not fear. It is the love of God that draws us to Him. "This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins" (1 John 4:9-11).

It seems that you have not yet been made perfect in love: "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment" (1 John 4:18).

Why should you fear going to hell when Christ died to save you from the consequences of your sins? Don't you believe God and the Bible when it says Jesus will never loose any who have been given to Him? Don't you understand that Jesus has overcome death through his resurrection? Your fears reflect your doubts and lack of faith. All you need to do is go back to that place where you lost your faith, approach the throne of Grace and ask God to help you to overcome. He will.

Read the account of the father who asked Jesus if he could heal his son in Mark 9:14-27. "If you can? said Jesus. Everything is possible for him who believes." Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!"

Its because you are part of a fear based religion.

you need not fear going to hell a fiery hell of torture forever does not exist nor could it burn you forever, first such a concept is totally wrong and used as a method of controlling you for according to the Bibleyou cannot be tortured when you die:

(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.

(Ecclesiastes 9:10) All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going. so if you cannot know feel or be aware of anything how could torture work on you? then think about burning forever and ever when someone is cremated how long does it take to get them to Ashes? Forever? otherwise the loved ones would not ever get their ashes to do anything with as a keepsake would they? Think about it

Jesus has conquered hell

You are in my prayers

Hi,

Two points here....firstly Hell is not a place where God torments you forever, as Hell in the Bible is symbolic of everlasting destruction , but having said that everlasting destruction is something to be concerned about !!

And secondly, you are NOT saved until you are saved ! Jesus said "he who endures to the end is the one who will be saved Matthew 24:13..........so YES you can be unsaved for want of a better word as there is NO SUCH THING as once saved always saved, that is a false teaching and NOT from the Bible. So for those who say noting can take you away from Gods love that is kind of correct, however YOU that is YOU yourself can take yourself away fro Gods love !

Please see this loveley 4min video that helps us build up appreciation for Gods love in the gift of his son and all that the ransom sacrifice means for us ! (the link is in my comments box underneath)

Fear and doubt is from the devil.

If you are truly saved or Born-Again, you can be sure of going to Heaven.

2 Timothy 1:7 - "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

If you depend on your own good works or self-righteousness for your salvation, you are in danger.

No one can ever be perfect before a Holy God, without wearing Christ's Righteousness(not yours).

The Bible says, "..Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began"

How to be sure of being saved?

You believe in the One True God(Father, Spirit, Son) and accept Christ ALONE(not self-righteousness, not Mary, not Saints, not religion, not sacraments) as your personal savior.

A truly Born-Again believer is a new creation and will have the natural desire to love God and hate sin. They will be extremely sorry when they sin.

A Christian is a person who knows that what Jesus did has delivered them from hell when they put total faith in what Jesus achieved. They know the joy of sins forgiven and a cleansed conscience, with the hope of glory indwelling them by the indwelling Holy Spirit. Yet that hope is not based on any feelings. It is based on faith in the promises of God.

As this prophet exclaimed, "Heal me, and I shall be healed; save me and I shall be healed, for you are the one I praise" (Jeremiah 17:14). And, as this other prophet wrote, "Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry for ever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea." (Micah 7:18-19) Do you not believe the promises of God? Do you place more importance on your unreliable feelings than on what God has actually done?

Salvation is assured to those who put their faith in what Jesus did, on the cross, and via the resurrection. Salvation is a completed work of Christ. "It is finished!!" He exclaimed just before He died. Those who put their faith in Jesus (and not in their feelings) know the truth of this - "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" (Philippians 1:6).

But if you place more importance on your wobbly feelings than you do in the promises of God to His children, you are in real danger. Don't you know that Jesus delivers all believers in Him from hell? Did you just repeat "the sinner's prayer" and you thought that had done the trick? Then no wonder you are now in turmoil! It could be that you have yet to come to saving faith in Christ. Start studying the Bible, learn just who it was dying for your sins at Golgotha, and what His resurrection means for you. Once you grasp the immensity of who Jesus is, you will trust Him totally for salvation - which means you will never end up in hell. I fear you are trusting in a system for salvation, and not in the Person of Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity. Your security lies in Christ, not your feelings! Determine to rely utterly on Jesus' finished work on the cross and start believing the promises of God!

True religion is based on love, not fear.

What you need to do is learn what the Bible really teaches. When you do this, you will learn that the doctrine of hellfire is a false religious teaching.

The Bible teaches: Romans 6:7

For the one who has died has been acquitted from his sin.

Yeah, religion'll do that to you: scares the living shite out of you until you become dependant and compliant.