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Thread #124273   Message #2743881
Posted By: Little Hawk
11-Oct-09 - 11:12 PM
Thread Name: Bible prophecy
Subject: RE: Bible prophecy
Oh, here's another belief held by the JV's. They do not believe that "Hell" is anything but "the grave". Why? Well, the Hebrew word "sheol" is used in the Bible to mean "hell", and the JV's scholars say that that word simply means "the grave".

They think that a limited number of very good people will go into heaven to be with God when the present system in the world ends...I believe it's 144,000 who will presumably do that. They think that many millions of other good people will get to live an eternal life in perfectly healthy and young physical bodies on a planet Earth which has been transformed into a paradise with no war, no poverty, no aging, no suffering, and so on.

As for those who don't make it, they will simply rest in the grave. No punishment. No consciousness at all. Just lying in their graves.

Again, the JV's are notably different from a great many other Christians in having such beliefs.

I find it all quite interesting, although I don't really share their views on any of it.