"I Don't Want To Die a Virgin!"

Remember when I said in an earlier blog post that a person's sexuality is their own and that everyone should keep out of everyone else bedrooms? Well, I meant it and still uphold that. However, every once in a while I'll think about things like this.

What is Hell?

This is something that I've been (for lack of a better term) "wrestling" with for the past year or so. Why are there 4 or 5 words in the Bible (Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus) translated as "Hell," yet they are not identical? Sometimes they are not even similar! Sheol was the place of the dead, and was the word used in the Old Testament. Gehenna was used only in the Gospels 12 times and referred to the town dump, not an eternal lake of fire. Hades was the equivalent of the word Sheol (we know this from the Greek Septuagint which is the OT written in Greek), yet Hades is translated as "Hell" more often than not in the NT, rather than "the grave." Not too mention, this concept of a eternal hell would have been foreign to the Jews at that time. No one questioned Him on this? Not even the Pharisees who were trying to discredit Him? Not too long ago, I wrote a post on Facebook (which interestingly got no responses), and it follows:

Confessions of a confession addict

I answered a question on Yahoo! Answers and decided it was a topic that I needed to address further. The asker was scared that if he didn't confess his sins enough, then he might die with unconfessed sin and end up in Hell. For some reason, a lot of people (including myself at one point in time), think that if you don't confess your sins, then they are still "on" you and they will drag you down into the eternal pit of fire. Here's my response: