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Hell of the Damned, also known as "Gehenna" ( Hebrew: גֵּיהִנּוֹם ), is hell strictly speaking, which the Catholic Church defines as the "state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed". [ 4] Purgatory is where just souls are cleansed from any defilement before entering Heaven. Limbo of the Fathers, also ...
The fate of the unlearned, also known as the destiny of the unevangelized, is an eschatological question about the ultimate destiny of people who have not been exposed to a particular theology or doctrine and thus have no opportunity to embrace it. The question is whether those who never hear of requirements issued through divine revelations ...
8 July 1741. " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God " is a sermon written by the American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached to his own congregation in Northampton, Massachusetts, to profound effect, [ 1] and again on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. The preaching of this sermon was the catalyst for the First Great Awakening. [ 2]
Hell in Christianity. In Christian theology, Hell is the place or state into which, by God's definitive judgment, unrepentant sinners pass in the general judgment, or, as some Christians believe, immediately after death ( particular judgment ). [ 1][ 2] Its character is inferred from teaching in the biblical texts, some of which, interpreted ...
5:30 →. The Sermon of the Beatitudes (1886-96) by James Tissot. Book. Gospel of Matthew. Christian Bible part. New Testament. Matthew 5:29 is the twenty-ninth verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. It is the third verse of the discussion of adultery .
The problem of Hell is an ethical problem in the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam, in which the existence of Hell ( Jahannam) for the punishment of souls in the afterlife is regarded as inconsistent with the notion of a just, moral, and omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient supreme being. Also regarded as inconsistent with such a ...
This was the first meaning given in the apostolic preaching to Christ's descent into Hell: that Jesus, like all men, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead." It adds: "But he descended there as Saviour, proclaiming the Good News to the spirits imprisoned there." It does not use the word Limbo. [5]
v. t. e. In Christian theology, the Harrowing of Hell ( Latin: Descensus Christi ad Inferos, "the descent of Christ into Hell " or Hades) [ a] is the period of time between the Crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection. In triumphant descent, Christ brought salvation to the souls held captive there since the beginning of the world.