What is your response, or conclusion to the following contradictions between the teachings and declarations of the holy Word of God, and those preached and taught in Christendom?

Rev. 20:14  “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.”

QUESTION: Since “the lake of fire” is a symbolic picture of the SECOND DEATH, and since “the second death” represents eternal and total destruction, how can the teachers and preachers of Christendom teach and preach: eternal damnation, eternal torment in hell?

Note: Death is the opposite to life. “Obey” and live, “disobey” and your life is taken from you. For the first, the Adamic death, God provided: a redemption, a ransom. For the second death, there is no such provision to reverse it, to be bought out of it by a ransom: it is final!

1 Cor. 15:22  “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”

QUESTION: Does this Scripture not teach: that Christ’s redemption of man is a redemption out of death, and not out of hell?

John 3:17  “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

QUESTION: If Christ’s work of redemption is applicable to the whole world, how then can man send billions of people into hell for eternal torment and punishment?

1 Tim. 2:4 (referring to God)  “Who will have all men [all people, all mankind] to be saved, and come unto the knowledge of the [true] truth.”

QUESTION: If it is God’s will to have all men to be saved — which teaches and tells us of a God who loves the creature which he created (not the billions of people of this evil world, but Adam and — because of the total Salvation in Christ during “the times of restitution of all things” — all his posterity at the end of HIS Plan of Salvation): how would he, how could he put billions of people into hell for eternal punishment and indescribable torment?

Heb. 2:9  “… that he [Jesus] by the grace of God [exemplified by his Plan of Salvation for Adam and all his posterity] should taste death for every man [for every person].”

QUESTION: If Christ died for every man (for Adam, and by extension, to each and every one of his posterity), because of his redemptive work: who is man to put billions of people into a place called hell for an eternity of punishment and torment?

1 John 4:14  “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.”

QUESTION: Since Christ is the Saviour of the world, and not just of a few, or a group, or a specific segment of mankind: how in the world can one of the main doctrines of Christianity be: the doctrine of Eternal Torment — unimaginable torture — in Hell?

1 Tim. 2:5–6  “Who [Christ] gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.”

QUESTION: If Christ’s sacifice, viz, his sacrificial death, was accepted by God’s justice to be “a ransom for all”, who is man, who are the teachers and preachers of Christendom to cut out of Christ’s world-wide Salvation: billions of people? Who are they to use a man-made doctrine and ignore and, in fact: put out of commission a divine doctrine?

1 John 2:2  “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.”

QUESTION: If Christ was the propitiation, viz, the atonement, the appeasement, also for the whole world, in that God has accepted Christ’s sacrifice to be applicable to the whole world: who is man to make their own judgmental rules and regulations and, yes, even doctrines which are contrary to those of God’s holy Word?

Rom. 5:18,21  “Therefore as by the offence of one [Adam] judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one [Christ] the free gift came upon all men [in due time] unto justification of life [as a result of His Plan of Salvation at the end of “the times of restitution of all things” – Acts 3:21] … That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness [the righteousness of Christ] unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”

QUESTION: If all men — all people — shall receive eternal life by the grace of God, and by the righteousness of Christ, then: no human creed, no mighty one, either human or spiritual, can change that!

Gen. 22:18; 12:3  The LORD God gives this assurance to Abraham: “… In thy seed shall all the nations [families, people] of the earth be blessed.” To this the Apostle adds:

Gal. 3:16  “Now to Abraham and his seed was the promise made [viz, to bless all the nations of the world]. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”

QUESTION: If Christ is that seed which shall bless “all the families of the earth” (Gen. 12:3), then, again, who is man to say: "No, he is not going to do that, because according to our doctrine, billions have to go to hell for all eternity to be punished and tortured, because they did not, or do not belong to any of our Christian(?) Churches"?

Whom do you want to believe: the Apostle Paul, or those who teach and preach the man-made doctrine of ETERNAL TORMENT IN HELL? As far as I am concerned, I go by what the Apostle Paul says in Rom. 3:4 — “Let God be true, but every man a liar”!

Since all the foregoing examples declare the teachings and preachings of the teachers and preachers - and especially of the televangelists - to be contrary to the teachings of the holy Scriptures, one must ask the QUESTION: Why are they doing so, since they surely cannot claim to be unaware, to be ignorant of these clear and straightforward Scriptures? To what conclusion do you come?

Another QUESTION arises: If Christendom is misrepresenting — misconstruing — the Word of God and its doctrines in such a bold manner: what other wrong teachings and preachings are coming out of their mouths? What other doctrines of God are they ignoring, or applying a different meaning to, invented by man, by the human mind?

Well, without going into elaborate details anymore at this time, here are some examples, beginning with a couple of quotes related to the foregoing:

Eccl. 9:5  “… the dead know not any thing.” Therefore:

Eccl. 9:10  “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest.”

With regard to Christianity’s doctrine of The Immortality of the Soul (viz, that man has a soul, and therefore his soul has to go somewhere if it does not or cannot go to heaven, for which reason the doctrine of Eternal Torment in Hell was invented), this is what the Scriptures say:

Gen. 2:7  “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

1 Cor. 15:45  “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul …”

1 Cor. 15:47  “The first man [Adam] is of the earth, earthy …”

Ezek. 18:4, 20  “… the soul that sinneth, it shall die.”

Comment: Did you notice how the Apostle Paul referred to the creation of man? He did not say: Adam received, or was given a soul. He clearly said: “Adam was made a living soul”, which, of course, is exactly what Gen. 2:7 says: “… and man became a living soul” — by providing the two elements necessary for a living being: the formed body from “the dust of the earth”, and initiating the process of breathing.

By the way, animals live on the same principle, for which reason the Scriptures refer to them also as souls, as beings. For instance:

Eccl. 3:19–20  “For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity [all ends in nothing — death is the opposite of life: non-existence]. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again [into nothing].”

This is what God says of himself to the Prophet:

Is. 42:1  “Behold my servant [Christ], whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.”

Comment: “… in whom my soul delighteth” — Does that mean that God, the Creator of all: has a soul, or does it not rather tell us that: all of God, his whole being, is delighted about his “Only Begotten”? “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand” (John 3:35). “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (2 Pet. 1:17).

Acts 3:20–21  “And he [God] shall send Jesus Christ [at his first Advent], which before was preached unto you [to the people of Israel]: whom the heaven must receive [up from the time of his resurrection] until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began [Adam’s world].”

QUESTION: If God has provided in his Plan of Salvation for Adam and all his posterity: a period of time in which all things will be restored (which is exactly what Jesus declared in Matth. 18:11 — “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost”), then: Why is not this most wonderful declaration of the Scriptures taught and loudly preached by all teachers and preachers in Christendom? If all God’s holy Prophets have spoken of this “since the world began”, why is it not taught and preached throughout the Gospel age? why not in this so-called enlightened age? Imagine: Adam lost perfection, he lost life, and he lost the harmony and love of God: and all of that, God assures us: shall be restored by Christ during “the times of restitution of all things”!