“The Scripture cannot be broken” - A case against “Hell”

Dear in Christ,


If rejecting Jesus were one reason that anyone should end up in Christianity's HELL, then Jews who opposed and rejected him and attempted and plotted to kill him several times and finally got him killed, should be the very first bunch of people who should end up there.

What did Moses say about the punishment for those who reject the prophet that God would raise up from among their brethren?

Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Deu 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I WILL REQUIRE IT OF HIM.

Peter, in his address to his contemporary Jews, clarified this further and said:

Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Act 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, SHALL BE DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE.

Usages like “to be destroyed off from among the people” or “to be cut off from among the people” is the Old Testament usage for killing / executing someone. Consider this passage:

2Ch 24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him (Joash): and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and DESTROYED ALL THE PRINCES OF THE PEOPLE FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.

Does it even remotely mean that the army of Syria sent all the princes of Judah to HELL? Not at all! They were killed. That’s all.

[Those who desecrates the Sabbath, engage in incestuous relations, eat unclean food, butcher animals outside the camp and so on were punished with ‘cutting off from among the people’, implying, that they were killed or executed. Exo 31:14; Lev 17:4, 9; 18:29; 19:8; 20:18; 23:29; Num 9:13; 15:30; 19:20.]

Having announced in advance that those who reject their Messiah would be destroyed from among the people, did God amend the punishment to suit Christianity’s hellish doctrine?

So, the punishment that Jews received for rejecting Jesus and getting him killed was to be destroyed from among the people, being massacred in the destruction of Jerusalem and being persecuted in various parts of the Roman Empire. Does that even imply that their spirits are annihilated / extinguished / culled once and for all? Far be it from truth!

We do remember with absolute clarity the occasion where Jesus called the Jewish leaders as the children of the Devil (Joh 8:44), but, do we remember, with equal amount of clarity, Jesus telling the Jewish leaders - who were about to stone him to death - that they are gods?

Joh 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, I said, YE ARE GODS?
Joh 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
Joh 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?”

IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER THEY KILLED HIM OR NOT, THE SCRIPTURE WHICH SAYS THAT THEY ARE GODS CAN’T BE BROKEN.

If an irate Jewish mob, which was about to stone to death the Son of God would remain gods, how much more the man on the street?

Yes, yes, I am aware of the clause “unto whom the word of God came” are gods. Didn’t the word of God (Christ) come in to this world, to save the human race?

In Christ,

Tomsan Kattackal