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What About the Fire of Gehenna?Is This Life All There Is?
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The term “Gehenna” is found twelve times in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Once it is used by the disciple James, and eleven times it appears in statements attributed to Jesus Christ and relates to a condemnatory judgment. These texts read:
“I say to you that everyone who continues wrathful with his brother will be accountable to the court of justice; but whoever addresses his brother with an unspeakable word of contempt will be accountable to the Supreme Court; whereas whoever says, ‘You despicable fool!’ [thereby wrongly judging and condemning his brother as morally worthless] will be liable to the fiery Gehenna.”—Matthew 5:22.
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What About the Fire of Gehenna?Is This Life All There Is?
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Note that, while these texts associate fire with Gehenna, none of them speak of any conscious existence, any suffering, after death.
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