Every Muslim must be convinced that, truly, Heaven is the truth, and hell is also the truth, as this is established by the Koran and Sunnah. Most scholars say that Paradise is located under Arsh and above the seventh heaven, and hell is located under the seventh earth. Ibn al-Arabi says that the fire that is in this world is taken from the fire of hell, and that this fire was dipped twice into the sea, for if this had not been done, then no one would be able to use this fire due to its strong heat.
This is how the fire we use in this world is obtained. They stoked hellfire for a thousand years until it turned white, then another thousand years until it turned red, and another thousand years until it turned black. Anyone who enters hell will be punished with different types of punishment. May the Almighty save us from hellfire. Amine!
As for sinful believers, they will enter Paradise after the Almighty punishes them for their sins. Denying hell means that the unbeliever is contradicting the infinite power of Allah. Proof that Paradise and Hell exist is the story of the prophet Adam (peace be upon him) and Chava and their lives in Paradise. Paradise is prepared for those people who believe and fear Allah. Hell is prepared for those who do not believe in Allah and who disobey Him.
Description of Paradise.
Abu Hurayrah reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “In Paradise they will cry: “O inhabitants of Paradise! It's time for you to be healthy and never get sick! It's time for you to live forever and never die! Now you will always be young and never grow old! Now you will only enjoy and never know sorrow! This is what the words of the Almighty mean: “It will be announced to them: “This is Paradise, which you have inherited for what you did!” (al-Araf, verse 43).
It is useful for you to learn more about the description of Paradise. The Almighty says in the Koran: “For those who were afraid to appear before their Creator, two Paradises were prepared (i.e. Paradise for fear of God and Paradise for renouncing passions, ar-Rahman, 46) - until the end of Surah “The Merciful.”
Abu Hurayrah reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Whoever, for the sake of Allah, supported a married couple with his own money will be called from behind all the gates of Paradise, and Paradise has eight gates. Those who prayed will be called from behind the gate of prayer, those who fasted will be called from behind the gate of fasting, those who gave donations will be called from behind the gate of donation, those who fought in the path of Allah will be called from behind the gate of jihad.” Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “I swear by Allah, for a person it will not matter from which gate he is called, but will there be someone who will be called from all the gates of Paradise at the same time?” He said, “Yes. And I ask Allah that you be one of those people.”
From Asim ibn Damrat, from Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) it was reported that one day the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) began to talk about hell, and described in great detail all its horrors. Then he said: “And those who feared their Creator are led into Paradise in crowds” (al-Zumr, verse 73). They will reach one of the gates of heaven, where they will see a tree under which two springs will flow. They will go to one of them, drink from it, and this water will cleanse their insides of everything unclean. Then they will go to another spring and bathe in it, after which the brilliance of prosperity will descend on them. After this, their hair will never be replaced by others and will never be disheveled, but will remain as if it had been oiled. And when they reach Paradise, its guardians will tell them: “Peace be with you! You were good (you did good deeds), so enter Paradise forever!” (al-Zumr, verse 73).
Then the young men will meet them, just as in this world people meet a loved one returning from a long journey with the words: “Rejoice! Allah has prepared for you such and such from His bounties!” He continued: “Then one of those young men will go to one of the spouses of these people - the heavenly houris, and will say to her: “So-and-so has come,” calling him by the name by which he was called in earthly life. She will ask: “Have you seen him?” He will answer: “I saw him, and he is following me.” Joy will overwhelm her, and she will stand at the threshold to meet her husband. And he, having reached his home, will look at its base and see that it is made of pearls, and on it will stand a palace shimmering with yellow, red, green and other colors. Then he will raise his head, look at his roof and see that it shines brightly, like lightning, and if not for the ability given to him by the Almighty, he would have lost his sight. Then he will lower his eyes and see his wives: “There are boxes erected, bowls are placed, pillows are laid out and carpets are spread out” (al-Gashiyat, verses 13-16).
The Quran says: “They will say: praise be to Allah, who guided us on this path, and we would not be on the right path if Allah had not guided us” (al-Araf, verse 43). Then they will cry: “You will live forever and never die! You will always be here and will never leave this place! You will always be healthy and never get sick!”
For they will be comforted
Heaven is a place of consolation; Lazarus, who suffered greatly in earthly life, is consoled in paradise; The Lord promises comfort to those who mourn, and the Revelation of John says that God will wipe away every tear from their eyes (Rev 21 :4). This teaching was (and remains) the subject of particularly fierce attacks: some say that people simply invented heaven in order to somehow console themselves in the face of pain, hunger, cold and the unbearable cruelty of the world around them; others - that this invention was a completely conscious attempt to distract working people from the struggle to improve their situation on earth.
Both of these objections suffer from the same obvious logical fallacy - the fact that a certain teaching brings consolation does not in any way entail its falsity, just as the fact that a certain teaching brings despair does not in any way entail its truth. We can assume that people who live in hope are fools, but a sober approach to life consists of hopelessness. It can be assumed that a martyr who gives his life in the hope of eternal life is in captivity of illusions, but a suicide looks at life realistically, but there are no logical reasons to believe so. Another objection is more serious: there are things after which consolation is impossible. A child who has lost a toy will be consoled if he receives another one; an adult who has lost a child will never be consoled - he will learn to live on, but grief will remain with him forever. You can compensate for material damage, such as a broken laptop, but you cannot compensate for genuine grief. As the prophet says - and the Evangelist quotes him, talking about the beating of infants by Herod - A voice is heard in Rama, weeping and sobbing and a great cry; Rachel cries for her children and does not want to be consoled, for they are not there (Matthew 2:18 ). There is pain that leaves ulcers in the human soul too deep for anything to fill them. This world has nothing to offer as consolation - and the very attempts to offer it look almost blasphemous. But heaven is not this world.
In the prophecy of Isaiah, which tells about the suffering of the Savior, there are amazing words: He will look at the struggle of His soul with contentment (Isa. 53:11 ). Usually, when people experience something truly terrible - like torture - they then do not remember it “with contentment” at all. Consciousness tries to repress unbearable memories, but they still remain a source of pain that poisons the rest of one’s life. Crucifixion is an unspeakably terrible and painful death, the details of which are terrible to even read about; but Scripture says that Christ, having entered into glory, looks upon it “with contentment.” Something similar is said about the suffering of Christians, which produces eternal glory in immeasurable abundance (2 Cor 4:17 ).
The Holy Apostle Peter says that as you participate in Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory is revealed you will rejoice and triumph (1 Peter 4:13). Suffering will not only remain in the past - it will turn into glory and triumph. The terrible wounds covering the bodies of the martyrs will be transformed into signs of heavenly glory; unbearable sorrow will turn into eternal joy, families will be reunited in one great family, whose Father is God. Looking back at their earthly path, the saved will see all - including the most difficult and painful - days of their lives, and especially them, flooded with that heavenly light that will reveal to them the true meaning of everything. God will turn the shadow of death into the clear morning (Amos 5 :8) of the general resurrection and into the everlasting day of eternal life.
Description of hell.
At-Tirmidhi reported: “Wayl is the abyss in hell, into which the unbeliever will fall for seventy autumns (i.e. years) before reaching its bottom.”
Ibn Majah and at-Tirmidhi reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Seek protection from Allah from the pit of Sorrow.” He was asked: “O Messenger of Allah! What is the Pit of Sorrow?” He replied: “The valley is in Gehenna, from which she herself asks for protection four hundred times a day.” He was asked: “O Messenger of Allah! Who is it prepared for? He replied: “For scientists who show off their deeds. And most of all Allah hates those scholars who attend meetings of unjust rulers.”
At-Tabarani said: “Truly, there is a valley in hell from which Gehenna itself asks for protection four hundred times a day, it is prepared for those from the community of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) who display their deeds in public.”
Al-Bukhari in his “Tarikh” reported: “Verily, in Gehenna there are seventy thousand valleys, in every valley there are seventy thousand gorges, in every gorge there are seventy thousand courtyards, in every courtyard there are seventy thousand houses, in every house there are seventy thousand wells.” , in every well there are seventy thousand snakes, next to every snake there are seventy thousand scorpions, and every unbeliever and hypocrite will certainly go through all this.”
Ahmad, at-Tabarani, ibn Hibban in Sahih and al-Hakim said: “Verily, in hell there are snakes the size of a camel’s neck. And if one of them stings, then the pain from its bite will be felt for seventy autumns (i.e. years). And truly, in hell there are scorpions the size of mules. If one of them stings, the pain from its bite will be felt for forty years.”
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The Evangelical Church “Christian Choice” is part of the international association “Church of God” and one of the local churches in Belarus. At the end of 2012, the Lord God blessed us to open the website of our church. On it we posted a brief history of our church, the “Church of God” movement, doctrine, some sermons and spiritual articles revealing the Teaching of the Church and other issues of life and ministry. This is only a small part of the spiritual material that we intend to post on the site. We hope in the Lord, in His blessing and anointing that we have from Him, that we will continue to post and consider many interesting and important thoughts and truths of the Word of God, as well as highlight events in the life of our church. We invite all readers, ministers, preachers and pastors of the “Church of God” and other denominations and confessions to cooperation, dialogue and discussion in the spirit of brotherly love in the work of our site. We are ready to have fellowship with everyone who is with us in the unity of spirit and the union of peace, with everyone who belongs to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who considers themselves a Christian in deed, and not just in words. Given the existing differences of opinion and diversity of views and understandings of the Word of God and issues of the life of the church that we have, we believe that our Lord Jesus Christ will enrich us through sincere communication and discussion of various issues of life and faith. We hope that on our website you can always find a lot of interesting and useful spiritual material for yourself. God's blessing to all readers of our site!
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Unforgiven grievances
There are also “evil worms” that eat people - these are unforgiven grievances.
We ourselves are imperfect and live in an imperfect world. And in this imperfection there are always some mistakes that you can catch on and for which you can blame someone. But why blame others? The Lord says through Ecclesiastes: “Do not pay attention to every word that they say” (Eccl. 7:21). Descend to a person, forgive him and cover him with love, because love covers a multitude of sins. “Forbearing with one another and forgiving each other, if anyone has a complaint against anyone, just as Christ forgave you, so do you” (Col. 3:13). Rebuilding relationships is painful, it hurts. I would like not to return to the wounds inflicted by someone at all. But we need to make up our minds and heal the relationship. Then a completely different life will begin with a healed heart and soul.
In addition to all of the above, there are many more areas that are robbed by Satan. These are health, wealth, work, etc. Many people suffer because they lived a sinful life and reap what they sow.
Children are brought to Molech
Next comes what is a scourge for the entire earth - the murder of unborn children - abortion. During the Old Testament, the pagan peoples - the Canaanites - had terrible copper idols with outstretched arms, hollow inside. They were heated with wood so that they became completely hot. And they sacrificed children to this terrible red-hot idol, killing them and placing them right there, in the womb. These children were completely burned out. But God in the Bible says: “Whoever gives his children to Molech shall be put to death” (Lev.20:2). This is an abomination, a terrible crime before the Lord.
However, those pagans never dreamed of how many children their mothers kill today, not in the womb of Moloch, but in their own wombs! This has never happened before. A mother's womb, which is meant to be a garden of life where new life grows, suddenly turns into a place of torture and murder of her own child, where its little body is torn apart, its head crushed with medical instruments. Tens of millions of children are killed in this way.
Once, in the eighties, someone came to our house to check on a denunciation that we were supposedly sectarians and were sacrificing children. They started asking questions. I brought out all my children, and I have nine of them, and said: “Here they are, our children.” Then I asked: “How many children do you have?” One has one, another has one, the third has one. "Where are the others? So which of us kills children? – I asked them. They had nothing to answer, because everyone probably had more than one abortion under their belt.
When this murder occurs, then, naturally, the spirit of death leaves an imprint on the mother for the rest of her life (if she does not repent of what she has done before God). It starts with health, which is destroyed. In attempts to drown out the pain in the soul, an addiction to alcohol or drugs may occur. And only the blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, cleanses from all sin, from an evil conscience.
Alcohol, drugs
Today, many people cannot imagine life without alcohol. How is it a holiday without wine?! People need to create joy in themselves with artificial doping. If alcohol does not work, they use drugs to produce this joy in themselves. Artificial life, artificial happiness, artificial peace for a while. And then I came to my senses, and the problems became not less, but more. “Who's howling? who's moaning? who has quarrels? Who's in grief? who has wounds for no reason? who has purple eyes? Those who sit for a long time drinking wine, who come to look for [wine] seasoned. Don’t look at the wine, how it turns red, how it sparkles in the cup, how it flows smoothly: later, like a snake, it will bite, and sting like an asp; Your eyes will look at other people's wives, and your heart will speak debauchery, and you will be like one sleeping in the middle of the sea and like one sleeping on the top of a mast. [And you will say]: “They beat me, it didn’t hurt me; They pushed me, I didn’t feel it. When I wake up, I will seek the same things again” (Prov. 23:29-35).
People try to run away from reality, from their problems, in order to drown them out, to forget themselves, not to think, not to think, not to think. But you are a man! Think! Look for a way out. There is a place of salvation, there is a place of meeting with God. There is a place of healing. This place is at the feet of Jesus Christ.
Don't run from problems, but look them in the eyes! Christ says: “Whoever seeks will find!”, and then adds: “I am the way and the truth and the life.” He came to save and deliver.
One day a man with a bottle came to his friend, who had become a Christian a couple of years ago. The owner of the house refused the offer of a drink, and a friend came and said: “Listen! How can you refuse this, you’re losing the delights of life!” To which the Christian replied: “I didn’t lose anything, I just found it!” “Yes, but I heard that even Jesus turned water into wine,” his friend began to convince him. “True, I don’t believe in this, but if you have already become a Christian, you believe that Jesus performed such a miracle!” “Jesus performed an even greater miracle in my life,” the Christian answered. – Jesus turned wine into furniture, a refrigerator.
Remember, my house was like an empty barn. Now he is a full cup. This is what I have now instead of wine! I, too, was like an empty barn; Jesus turned me into a blooming garden. I became a father to my children, a husband to my wife. I understood what marriage is, what a union of loving hearts is. I understood how we can live when God enters our relationships, heals hearts, grievances, and delivers us from vices.”
This is how the Lord returns what was stolen and lost.
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Birth again, when and how it happens.
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Birth again, when and how it happens.
The only way to become a child of God is to be born of God, of the good news of Christ and of the Holy Spirit (John 3:5). And only birth by the Holy Spirit makes a person a child of God, a new creation in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 5:17). This cannot be achieved either through teaching or education. As has already been said, through education, faith can be passed from parents to children. Whatever faith the parents had, the same will be passed on to the children. If the parents had a living, unfeigned, God's “faith that works through love” (Gal. 5:6), then the same faith will pass on to the children. And this faith will certainly manifest itself in personal repentance and acceptance of Jesus Christ into your heart as your personal Savior and Lord. And if the parents had a dead, nominal faith, then their children will have the same. Such nominal faith may make a person religious, but not a child of God. That is why Christ said to such not only a deeply religious person, but also a teacher of religion as Nicodemus was: “you must be born again” and “whoever is not born again cannot see the Kingdom of God” (John 3:1-10). Scripture says that God “gave power to those who received Him (Christ), to those who believed on His name, to become children of God, who were not born of blood... but of God” (John 1:12-13).
When does the new birth occur?
At the time of belief, turning to God, at the moment of repentance . Does all repentance lead to being born again? No, not everything. But only sincere, heartfelt repentance, which is accompanied, or rather generated, by a deep consciousness of one’s sinful lost state, a thirst for salvation, a deep faith that Jesus Christ died on the cross of Calvary personally for your sins and gives forgiveness and salvation to all who turn to Him with faith and repentance. True repentance is accompanied by “worthy fruits of repentance” (Luke 3:8), that is, leaving a sinful life (Eph. 5:8). In response to such repentance, the Holy Spirit produces such a change in a person’s heart, through which a person becomes a child of God and enters a period of spiritual childhood. Read completely "
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Those sins for which they go to Hell
The biggest sins for which you will have to pay terribly are the murder of a person or animal, cruelty to living creatures, and ruining someone’s life. And also black envy, which often pushes people to commit crimes against their conscience. Those who frame others and slander them, false witnesses will also suffer serious punishment.
However, one can atone for one’s guilt through sincere repentance and good deeds. You can save someone's life, do charity or humanitarian aid, become a volunteer and do other good deeds.
Who are Protestants?
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Who are Protestants?
Let's start with the fact that the word PROTESTANTISM comes from the Latin word protestatio - a solemn statement, proclamation, assurance; protest, objection, disagreement.
Among world religions, Protestantism can be briefly described as one of the three, along with Catholicism and Orthodoxy, main directions of Christianity, which is a collection of numerous and independent Churches and denominations. We need to dwell in more detail on the question: who are Protestants from a theological point of view?
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Reading the Bible in different languages
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For in-depth Bible study, the BibleQuote program is recommended. It is, in our opinion, one of the best Bible programs and is also completely free. We bring to your attention several training videos on how to use this program, as well as links to download the program itself and its modules. Read completely "
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