Didn’t realize I was focusing on just that, well may be, huh? Well when I tell people to be careful of going down Smith St because they have cops running radar, I’m not trying to make them fear the police it’s just that I don’t want them to get a ticket and lose money. It’s the same with salivation; I don’t want anyone to perish. And hell to me really isn’t the hot place where demons poke you with pitch forks. Hell for me is losing sight of God the father, the son and the Holy Spirit, and him from me. That’s the worst kind of hell I can imagine.
I was using iron gloves and you are using velvet gloves. Not having God, especially after death for eternity is scary and is hell. Love is good and created by god but without the iron rod, there is no love. Without truth, there is no love. The devil wants to deceive us into believing he does not exist or there is no hell and that love can lead you to heaven but without the truth, love is nothing.
I don’t want anyone to be without God because God did say love conquers all. But love without god or the light of truth to shine out all that is wrong, unclean, sinful and things that contradicts the word of god will do no good. It will become a deception to lead people away from god. For example, if you love your child, you will not spare him/her the rod, or spare from correcting him/her when he/she does wrong, but correct him/her and tell him/her the facts of life. Not hide it and hope that your love will make him/her grow up right and responsible. I see it today, even within my family where the parents want to be friends, pals ect with their kids, because they want them to like/love them, but they don’t respect them at all. They need to be parents 1st and friends 2nd...Anyway getting off the main subject but I hope you can see the point.
I also did some studying on the subject “Hell & valley of Hinnom” below is what I’ve found.
Valley Of Hinnom
by Wayne Blank
The Hinnom Valley is a deep, narrow ravine located in Jerusalem, running south from the Jaffa Gate on the west side of the Old City, then eastward along the south side of Mount Zion (seen in the top of the photograph with the Hinnom Valley below it) until it meets the Kidron Valley which separates the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives on the east side of the city. It is named from a certain "son of Hinnom" who apparently owned or had some significant association with the valley at a time prior to Joshua 15:8.
The Valley of Hinnom had a very horrendous history in ancient times. It was used as a place where the pagan worshipers did all sorts of vile and wicked things - including burning children alive as sacrifices to the idols Moloch and Baal. One section of the valley was called Tophet, or the "fire-stove," where the children were slaughtered (2 Kings 23:10). It was a place of tremendous evil for many years.
After their return from the Babylonian exile (see Why Babylon?), the Jews turned the Hinnom Valley into the city dump where garbage and anything deemed unclean (including the bodies of executed criminals) was incinerated. For that purpose, a fire was kept constantly burning there. Even though it was no longer used for evil worship, with all the filth and thick smoke it remained a very dark and dreary place.
The Hebrew name Hinnom when translated into Greek is gehenna, from which the word and concept of hell originated. By the time of Jesus Christ, the deep, constantly-burning Valley of Hinnom was also known as the Valley of Gehenna, or Hell, and had taken on a popular image as the place "down there" where the wicked would eventually be cast into the flames for destruction.
Fact Finder: Did Jesus Christ also refer to the fire of Gehenna?
Matthew 10:28
Note: Jesus used the original word Gehenna, which is translated hell, in the above Scripture, but He obviously wasn't referring to the fires of the Valley of Hinnom - He was talking about the future lake of fire that will be used to destroy the enemies of God (Revelation 19:20, 20:13-15).
Re: Loving the Dark
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