Who Tampered With The Bible?

Just thinkin...

I have been wondering about something for a while now. When giving the reason for their

belief in

Hell, a couple of folks have said that they believed there was a Hell because there was

Heaven..

Also, some have made statements like.." If you are not a believer in Christ and you die, that's

all

there is left...just Hell."

These particular people believe that the Hell of the Bible is a literal, burning, fiery, place

where

unbelievers will be punished for ever and ever...no end in sight.

What I am wondering about is why it is so easy to just blindly accept that doctrine without

questioning it. And why do people say that's all there is? What do they think? That God

created the

world as we know it out of some horrible, fiery, existence or something?

If not that, then God would have had to

purposely

create the horrible place we know of as

Hell,

sometime or other. Genesis does not give the account of Hell's creation like it does for

everything

else. If it was not in existence when God created the world,

WHEN DID HE

CREATE IT?

How would it have read if He had purposely created it? Like this?

realize some may gasp at the thought that I have tampered with the Word of God, but, is it

me that

has done the tampering,or, is it the majority of the Christians who believe in the

teaching of endless

Hell that has changed the Word of God? Is this not, in a nutshell, what

they believe?

Now, wouldn't

also have to alter some more of the Bible when God is dealing with Adam

and Eve?

Shouldn't it read like this?

Isn't that how the Bible should read if what we believe about Hell is true? Or, would God just

let

them

think

the only punishment they would experience for their disobedience was death?

I heard an atheist and a Christian go head to head the other night at Jones County Junior

College

in Ellisville, Mississippi. I couldn't believe the atheist went through the whole debate

and only

mentioned Hell, right at the last minute. He did bring up a very good point and that

was : we look

through the Old Testament and never find it. That all by itself should throw up a

red flag with a big

question mark on it...

Yes, I know the "Hell hath enlarged herself" verse is in the Old Testament, but if you knew your

"Hell" words and their meanings, you would automatically know that that particular Hell word

means

Sheol or Hades. That is not the "punishment" Hell of the BIble, unless God was

threatening them

with their life.

I also realize that Daniel 12:2 is considered by some to allude to eternal torment, but, it says

some

will be raised to shame and abhorrence, not to endless Hell. Considering Daniel was a

Hebrew

writing to Hebrew people that makes perfect sense. Those people were entrusted

with the oracles

of God, chosen to be His special people in the earth. The Bible says they will

be ashamed when

they realize what they have done concerning God and the Messiah, Jesus

Christ.

later....Debbie

Genesis 1: 27-31

27.So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;

male and female created he them.

28.And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful , and multiply , and

replenish the earth, and subdue it : and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and

over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29.And God said , Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon

the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding

seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30.And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that

creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat:

and it was so.

Then, because God knew His creation would rebel against Him when He

allowed that old serpent, the devil, to tempt them, He created a vast, ever

enlarging, pit

of fire for most of the men, women, and children, who would not accept His son as their

savior. The pit was to be enlarging itself because all of creation would be damned to go

there

even if they did not sin. The creation of God would be born Hell-bound.

31.And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good...

except, Hell. That made Him very sad.

And the evening and the morning were the sixth

day.

Genesis 2: 15-17

15.And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to

dress it and to keep it.

16.And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden

thou mayest freely eat :

17.But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in

the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely damn thy soul to everlasting Hell.

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