The Bible says the wages of sin is death, and that we’ll perish and no longer “be” unless we receive the gift of eternal life.
■ “God . . . gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”
■ ”For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be . . .”
However most churches teach salvation is about where you’ll spend eternity —heaven or hell. As if we won’t really die but will always be alive somehow, somewhere.
This “where you’ll spend eternity” narrative comes from pagan Greek immortal soul doctrine, adopted by churches over the centuries. “Hell” was also adopted, to explain where the unsaved spend eternity. Translators then wrote “hell” into most Bibles by mistranslating. For example:
■ “And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire”
"Hell" is from the Greek word γεέννῃ: the dump outside Jerusalem. Jesus was only saying the unsaved would be destroyed, as surely as trash thrown into that burning dump would be destroyed.
