What The Bible Teaches About Retribution (Divine Justice)
The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).
Those who sleep in the dust...shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame, and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12.2).
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27).
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.... And the dead were judged out of those things...written in the books, according to their works (Revelation 20:12).
The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven...in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel...who shall be punished with everlasting destruction (2 These. 1:7-10).
If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is to enter heaven with only one foot than to be thrown into Hell with two feet. (Mark 9:45).
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What Other Religions Teach About Retribution (Divine Justice)
Hell is "Mortal belief, error, lust, remorse, hatred, revenge, sin, sickness, death ... that which worketh abomination or maketh a lie" (SH 588:1-4).
No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment day of wisdom comes hourly and continually (SH, 291:28-29).
Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven (SH, 196:18-19).
Death is an illusion, the lie of life in matter; the unreal and untrue (SH, 584:910).
The body cannot die, because matter has no life to surrender (SH, 426:3031).
Universal salvation rests on progression and probation (SH, 291:12).
If man should not progress after death, but should remain in error, he would be inevitably self-annihilated (Misc. Writings p. 2).
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Hell does not exist and never will.
All spirit people of wisdom, knowledge, and love know that is no hell and no devil.
No resurrection--No judgment.
When you believe in spiritual manifestations, you will feel far happier than you do now. You will not fear the threats of damnation and hell . . . such doctrine is wrong (Doyle, The New Revelation, 1918, p. 68).
We do not believe in such places as Purgatory and Hell. Communicating spirits have merely graduated from this form of life into another. That life can be heaven or hell like, just as each spirit chooses to make it; the same applies to our life here (SM, p. 183).
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The doctrine of a burning hell where the wicked are tortured eternally after death cannot be true (LC, p.99).
A dead person is unconscious, inactive. The soul (entire being) itself is DEAD (MS, p. 143).
The millennial judgment day (the 1,000 year judgment day) will take place after Armageddon (LG, p. 284 286).
The final test will come by the loosing of satan out of his restraint (at the end of the Millennium) (LC, p. 293).
Those supporting satan (at the end of Millennium) will, with the devil himself, be cast into the "lake of fire and sulphur." They are drowned in everlasting destruction (annihilated) and for them there is no resurrection (LG, p. 270)
All who reject the Kingdom message will be destroyed (LG,p. 190; YM, p. 341).
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Most of the adult people who have lived since Adam (having rejected Christ and lived wickedly) will go to the "Telestial Kingdom" (MD, p. 778).
Perdition is for satan, and the Sons of Perdition, angels who rebelled with him. Also for men who commit the unpardonable sin (Talmage, DC, p. 410).
"Endless Punishment" is "God's punishment" and may endure for "one hour, one week, or one year, or an age" (Morgan, The Plan of Salvation).
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Heaven and hell are not accepted concepts.
Karma, the "law of the deed" of sowing and reaping, is allied with Transmigration (Reincarnation) in defining the results of sin and the rewards of good.
Suffering (on earth) is the result of some wrong doing in the past, one's own repayment of deeds.
One who has attained union with God, or "God-consciousness," has reached the end of reincarnation. As the Buddha is reported to have said, "There is no rebirth for me."
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