You know what is really funny? The Jews (of whom Jesus was one, and who the Christians took their religion from), don't have any real concept of hell or purgatory. Those 2 things are largely Christian inventions.
But then again, you can't control the people and get them to give you money unless you scare them with eternal damnation.
And by the way................shouldn't it be "damnation FOREVER" instead of "eternal damnation". I mean, if you're in an eternal state, there is no beginning or end, so therefore you are damned even before you are born. If you're in a forever state however, that is much different, because forever has a beginning point, eternal doesn't.
Besides............in John 3:16, it states "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believeth in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life".
Everlasting life, not eternal.
Nobody ever is consigned to hell (or purgatory) for eternity.
But then again, you can't control the people and get them to give you money unless you scare them with eternal damnation.
And by the way................shouldn't it be "damnation FOREVER" instead of "eternal damnation". I mean, if you're in an eternal state, there is no beginning or end, so therefore you are damned even before you are born. If you're in a forever state however, that is much different, because forever has a beginning point, eternal doesn't.
Besides............in John 3:16, it states "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believeth in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life".
Everlasting life, not eternal.
Nobody ever is consigned to hell (or purgatory) for eternity.