Prologue:
AV Dt 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
AV Ps 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
For those who don't know, I'm an Orthodox Jew (you can check it out on my profile). Many a member here has informed me over the last two years that I will be going to hell. It has occurred to me that as Christians do not agree on many matters (as they say, "two Christians, thirty-thousand opinions"), perhaps they also do not agree on why exactly I will be going to hell.
AV Re 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
"
why exactly I will be going to hell.", I believe you are confused on the definition of "
hell", even as "
an Orthodox Jew", and it's applications.
The first death("
the shadow of death") as "
hell" and second death as "
hell" are distinct and different.
AV 2Sa 7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
AV Ac 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
If the Messiah's advent is delayed, "
thou shalt sleep with thy fathers", as the first death as sleep in "
hell", will be fulfilled as it did for David.
So are they referring to the death of your body of flesh, first death as "
hell" ???
AV Mal 3:18-4:3
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts
, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this], saith the LORD of hosts.
AV Mt 10:28 And fear not them
which kill the body,
but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him
which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Or second death as "
hell" of "
both soul and body" ???
Yours in Christ, Michael