Hell

1.0 Prolog

This web article examines the topic of Hell ...

2.0 Notes

Our first stop in our exploration of 'Hell' is, as usual, with Wikipedia, the free online and user-editable encyclopedia — which gives us the following ...

Hell

In many religious traditions, Hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife, often in the underworld. Religions with a linear divine history often depict Hell as endless (for example ... Hell in Christian beliefs). Religions with a cyclic history often depict Hell as an intermediary period between incarnations (for example ... Chinese Diyu).

Punishment in Hell typically corresponds to sins committed in life. Sometimes these distinctions are specific, with damned souls suffering for each wrong committed (... for example Plato's myth of Er or Dante's The Divine Comedy), and sometimes they are general, with sinners being relegated to one or more chamber of Hell or level of suffering. In Islam and Christianity, however, faith and repentance play a larger role than actions in determining a soul's afterlife destiny.

In Christianity and Islam, Hell is traditionally depicted as fiery and painful, inflicting guilt and suffering. Some other traditions, however, portray Hell as cold and gloomy. Despite the common depictions of Hell as a fire, Dante's Inferno portrays the innermost (9th) circle of Hell as a frozen lake of blood and guilt. Hell is often portrayed as populated with demons, who torment the damned. Many are ruled by a death god, such as Nergal, the Hindu Yama, or the Christian Satan.

In contrast to Hell, other types of afterlives are abodes of the dead and paradises. Abodes of the dead are neutral places for all the dead (for example ... sheol) rather than prisons of punishment for sinners. A paradise is a happy afterlife for some or all the dead (... heaven). Modern understandings of Hell often depict it abstractly, as a state of loss rather than as fiery torture literally under the ground.

hell_vladimir_gelesnoff.jpg - for www.mysteries-of-the-world.com

Tags: Vladimir Gelesnoff, Hell, Hades, Tartarus, Gehenna, Sheol

Hell in Christian beliefs
Here is what Wikipedia says (slightly adapted) about "Hell in Christian beliefs" ...
Hell in Christian beliefs
Hell, in Christian beliefs, is a place or a state in which the souls of the unsaved will suffer the consequences of sin.
The Christian doctrine of Hell derives from the teaching of the New Testament, where Hell is typically described using the Greek words Gehenna or Tartarus [see the above notes from Vladimir Gelesnoff]. Unlike Hades, Sheol, or [that non-Scriptural and silly Catholic idea of] "purgatory", Hell is eternal, and those damned to Hell are without hope.
In the New Testament, Hell is described as the place or state of punishment after death or last judgment for those who have rejected Jesus.
In many classical and popular depictions, Hell is also the abode of the devil and of evil spirits.
Hell is generally defined as the eternal fate of unrepentant sinners after this life. Hell's character is inferred from biblical teaching, which has often been understood literally. Souls are said to pass into hell by God's irrevocable judgment, either immediately after death (particular judgment) or in the general judgment.
Modern theologians generally describe hell as the logical consequence of the soul using its free will to reject the will of God. This is considered compatible with God's justice and mercy because God will not interfere with the soul's free choice.
In some older English translations of the Bible (such as the KJV), the word "Hell" is used to translate certain words such as Sheol (Hebrew) and Hades (Greek) [thus, causing some confusion because] ... words [such as Sheol and Hades] do not typically refer to the place of eternal punishment, but to the underworld or temporary abode of the dead.

3.0 YouTube Videos

3.1 Video Clips

The popular video hosting site, YouTube, carries several videos about Hell ...

Hell - from the History Channel

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3.1.1 Video Summaries

Here are the YouTube video summaries:

Title: Hell: The Devil's Domain (Part 1/10 to Part 10/10)
        [What is Hell? Is Hell Real? Is the Devil Real? - Part 1 / 10 to Part 10 / 10]
From: skullzyer
        [wewillflysomeday]
Added: November 28, 2007
        [April 12, 2008]
Info-Description: History Channel documentary Part 1 to Part 10.
        [
         HELL IS REAL AND IT IS FOR ETERNITY !!!
         http://thewaythetruth.com
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         Open your mind...
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         Part 1:
         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkYE_c6tE48

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVe9TXluB1M

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8l3PliBQS4

Part 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8be9EGnxo

Part 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6tAyj0EL0U

Part 6:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAqAaRO-co

Part 7:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txeqSJ5Cu4g

Part 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWx33iRWQ1I

Part 9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWNkxoVY6R8

Part 10:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyxQrABLLWI

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3.2 Additional Video Clips

Here are more video clips about Hell and related stuff ...

Hell

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3.2.1 Video Summaries

Here are the YouTube video summaries for the above additonal video clips:

Title: Proof That Hell Is Real - To Hell And Back - Part 1 / 9 to Part 9 / 9
From: wewillflysomeday
Added: April 21, 2008
Info-Description: Please watch it all:

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJo9Bizuufw

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MAsUsm1oVs

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZ4UINyJz0

Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCThCtIeUuY

Part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrmzR82Izyo

Part 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku3eMUvoegQ

Part 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTvuaRDH6dA

Part 8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMzlU09j3qM

Part 9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87_5QDlBi7w

        What if hell is real ? What you'll do ?
         http://thewaythetruth.com
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         Open your mind...
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Title: Why Preach the Reality of Hell?
From: BereanBeacon
Added: May 06, 2008
Info-Description: Pastor John Haveman
    135 Knowles St.
    Missoula
    Montana
    406-728-5562
    http://www.odbcmissoula.com/haveman%20sermons.html
    odbc@odbcmissoula.com.

Hell
By D.L. Moody

http://www.biblebelievers.com/moody_sermons/m7.html

A Letter from Hell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZ1pt0WX5c

Hell - You Don't Have to Go There!! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFNvCvf7zXk

Ten Ways to Hell. Which One areYou Using? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBJ5hEYb5c

Religious Hell, The Broad Way vs the Narrow Way - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYWPjxMzjm4

Is There Room in Hell for You? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWtpRdkEdOU (more)

Still Image from The Light of the World - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcz25mkXl1M

    Permission to use by Chick Publications.
    To order video:
    Chick Publications
    PO Box 3500
    Ontario, Calf. 91761
    (909) 987-0071
    http://www.chick.com

I want to share the blessing of how God used a Christian broadcast in a hospital room to help prepare a woman's heart for salvation. We had been urgently trying to lead a terminal cancer patient to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Raised a Catholic., she did not believe in a literal hall, and believed the false Catholic dogma ahe had been taught about her good works taking her to heaven.

After lapsing into a semi-coma state, Gena was rushed to Cortland Memorial Hospital and administered IVs, which helped her to regain consciousness. My wife and I went to see her. Placed in a private room because of the terminal nature of her disease, she was watching a television broadcast of a sermon and chalk drawings by Peter Ruckman! We were amazed. She watched closely as he drew the three crosses, and talked about how Christ's sacrificial death and prepared the way for those who repent of their sins and place their trust in Him, to go to Heaven. He drew a portrayal of heaven, and talked about it. Then he drew a protrayal of hell, and talked about it. Although Gena did not care for his style of speaking, she was very attentive to his drawing, and her heart was finally opened to what we had been trying to tell her for so many months.

I then was able to take my Bible and go through a very thorough presentation of the Gospel once again, and she was gloriously saved. PRAISE THE LORD!! Ten days later, Gena was home with the Lord, after being unconscious almost the rest of her time with us.

I am so thankful for this wonderful media ministry. Keep up the good work!

    Pastor Dennis Grimes
    SemproniusBaptist Church
    Sempronius, NY
    (Broadcast March 7, 2002 - Time Warner Ch. 2, 10:30AM)

The Great White Throne Judgment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdfjqCAqke8

A Letter from Hell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZ1pt0WX5c

Why Preach the Reality of Hell? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUEdt40pUQ

Hell - You Don't Have to Go There!! - hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFNvCvf7zXk

Ten Ways to Hell. Which One areYou Using? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBJ5hEYb5c

Title: Hell - You Don't Have to Go There!!
From: BereanBeacon
Added: May 07, 2008
Info-Description: [As above]

Title: Is There Room in Hell for You?
From: BereanBeacon
Added: May 08, 2008
Info-Description: By Dr.Ed DeVries (evangelist)
http://www.bibleschool.edu/Dr.DeVries

The Good Test - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JiESHIYIJg
[... As above]

Title: Welcome to Hell [Rowan Atkinson]
From: chrisofduke
Added: June 22, 2006
Info-Description: Rowan Atkinson's sketch about the Devil Welcoming People to Hell..

Title: Rowan Atkinson in Hell - WITH SUBTITLES
From: eroncoelho
Added: March 03, 2007
Info-Description: A very funny monologue...Rowan Atkinson is the devil, and he�s greeting some new souls in Hell.

Title: HELLFIRE
From: mesogamer
Added: June 03, 2007
Info-Description: The Hellfire that most of the people are going to face

Title: Hellfire's description in Islam
From: omairah
Added: January 30, 2008
Info-Description: Hellfire's description in Islam

4.0 Epilog

This web article comprises some notes and YouTube video clips, on Hell ...

Cheers!

This website is predicated on the basis of the following categorization of the Sciences ...

Four Categories of Science

By Stanton T. Friedman (Former Nuclear Physicist)

Some people have insisted that if I can't provide a piece of a [flying] saucer or an alien body, there is nothing to support my claims. I was quite surprised during my last visit with Carl Sagan in December 1992, when he claimed that the essence of the scientific method was reproducibility. In actuality, as I wrote Sagan later on, there are at least four different kinds of science:

[Category-1 Science] Yes, there is a lot of excellent science done by people who set up an experiment in which they can control all the variables and equipment. They make measurements and then publish their results, after peer review, and describe their equipment, instruments, and activity in detail so that others can duplicate the work and, presumably, come to the same conclusions. Such science can be very satisfying, and certainly can contribute to the advancement of knowledge. However, it is not the only kind of science.
[Category-2 Science] A second kind of science involves situations in which one cannot control all the variables, but can predict some. For example, I cannot prove that on occasion the moon comes directly between the sun and the Earth and casts a shadow of darkness on the Earth, because I cannot control the positions of the Earth, moon, or sun. What can be done is predicting the times when such eclipses will happen and being ready to make observations when they occur. Hopefully the weather where I have my instruments will allow me to make lots of measurements.
[Category-3 Science] A third kind of science involves events that can neither be predicted nor controlled, but one can be ready to make measurements if something does happen. For example, an array of seismographs can be established to allow measurements to be made at several locations in the event of an earthquake. When I was at the University of Chicago, a block of nuclear emulsion was attached to a large balloon that would be released when a radiation detector indicated that a solar storm had occurred (something we could neither produce nor predict). Somebody would rush to Stagg Field and release the balloon. When the balloon was retrieved, the emulsion would be carefully examined to measure the number, direction, velocity, and mass characteristics of particles unleashed by the sun.
[Category-4 Science] Finally, there is a fourth kind of science, still using the rules to attack difficult problems. These are the events that involve intelligence, such as airplane crashes, murders, rapes, and automobile accidents. We do not know when or where they will occur, but we do know they will. In a typical year more than 40,000 Americans will be killed in automobile accidents. We don't know where or when, so rarely are TV cameras whirling when these events take place. But we can, after the fact, collect and evaluate evidence. We can determine if the driver had high levels of alcohol in his or her blood, whether the brakes failed, whether the visibility was poor, where a skid started, and so on. Observations of strange phenomena in the sky come under this last category.

In all the category-4 events, we must obtain as much testimony from witnesses as possible. Some testimony is worth more than other testimony, perhaps because of the duration of observation, the nearness of the witnesses to the event, the specialized training of the observer, the availability of corroborative evidence such as videos and still photos, or the consistency of evidence when there is testimony from more than one witness. Our entire legal system is based on testimony — rarely is there conclusive proof such as DNA matching. Judges and juries must decide, with appropriate cross-examination, who is telling the truth. In some states, testimony from one witness can lead to the death penalty for the accused.

We should take note of the fact that even instrument data is dependent on testimony from the observer of the instruments, and on appropriate calibration and validation under standardized circumstances. Also, our courts place limits on requirements for testimony, such as that against one spouse by the other. Furthermore, there are rules about hearsay testimony, and rules regarding legal evidence are complex and detailed.

When it comes to flying saucers, we must remember that the reason most sightings can be determined to be relatively conventional phenomena, often seen under unusual circumstances, is that most people are relatively good observers. The problem comes with the interpretation of what was observed. People watching the sky late at night may get excited about a very bright light that moved very slowly. Checking on the position of the planets at that time may reveal that that light was Venus, because we have good information as to the angle of observation, the direction of the light from the observer, the relatively slow rate of motion, the location of Venus at that time, and so on. On three occasions, when living in Southern California, I was called by people who described an unusual object moving rapidly. I tried to make sure that I analyzed their observations, such as, what time was it? In what direction were you looking? In what direction did it seem to be moving? Was there any sound? What was its apparent size, say, as compared to the moon (just covered by an aspirin held at arm's length)?

Two of the people wanted to tell me that the object was just over the next hill. I stressed that this was an interpretation, because even huge objects far away can seem to be small objects nearby. In all three cases, I felt that what was being described sounded similar to a rocket launched down the California Coast when the sun had gone down, but while the object was high enough to still be in sunlight. I had seen such a spectacular case once myself. I checked, in all three cases, with Vandenberg Air Force Base, which launches many rockets down the U.S. West Coast. Indeed, there had been a launch at the right time in each case. One case was especially intriguing, because several witnesses were looking out across the ocean from a beach area and described the thing they saw as similar to a string of popcorn. It turned out to be the launch of a special weather satellite with extra solid boosters being dropped off multiple times.

The people were good observers. To say the least, it would be irrational to say that people are good observers when their input allows us to identify the object being observed, and yet poor observers if we can't identify the UFO as something conventional.

   — Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist)
        Flying Saucers and Science
        Subtitle — A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes,
           and Government Cover-Ups
        (Chapter 1 - "The Case for the ET Origin of Flying Saucers")
        (Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2008)

Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist) - Flying Saucers and Science - for www.mysteries-of-the-world.com

Source: Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist)
Flying Saucers and Science
Subtitle — A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups

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SEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT

Accept the statement of Eminent Authority with�out basis, without question.
Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general contrariness.
Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it isn't? How then to account for the phenomenon?
How much of the statement rationalizes to suit man's purpose that he and his shall be ascendant at the centre of things?
What if the minor should become major, the recessive dominant, the obscure prevalent?
What if the statement were reversible, that which is considered effect is really cause?
What if the natural law perceived in one field also operates unperceived in all other phases of science? What if there be only one natural law manifesting itself, as yet, to us in many facets because we cannot apperceive the whole, of which we have gained only the most elementary glimpses, with which we can cope only at the crudest level?

And are those still other doors, yet undefined, on down the corridor?

— Mark Clifton
Eight Keys to Eden
(London, UK: Pan Books, 1962)

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This website — Mysteries of the World Website — aims for simplicity when examining the Mysteries ... Here is a TED talk about the topic of Simplicity (note:- TED = Technology, Entertainment, Design -- check this out: The Future We Will Create: Inside the World of TED) ...

Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in the form of textual notes, pictures/stills, and audio and video clips) — as well as many advertisements, some by me and some automatically by Google Adsense and Amazon — on this website, it does not mean that I am in agreement with or that I believe in the views and/or ads offered-proferred ... That would be displaying such a parochial and provincial attitude, towards this website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading, viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course.
Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies, competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe in. In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to speak — we have to remove our humongous ego! — else we will never ever really have gotten started in our journey of exploration and discovery of the Mysteries of the World.
Furthermore, similarly and additionally, as a "Charismatic Christian", there are lots of stuff presented in this website that I do not believe in ... which had even led some to label me as "Fundamentalist"!
... Whatever!
Matthew 7
¹Judge not, that ye be not judged.
²For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
³And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
⁴Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
⁵Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
   — Jesus the Christ
        (Yahoshua ha Mashiach; Yeshua/Yesua; Ieosus; Joshua),
        "Sermon on the Mount"
If you want to hear the NIV — specifically, from The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993) — please click the audio player below:

In short, in this website, I present many things that, I am hopeful, would be of interest to a student, explorer and investigator of the Mysteries of the World ... but this doesn't mean that I believe in any of the stuff presented.
... Got it?
... Right!

Here is a purpose that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
[Mysteries, Monsters, Mutants, Myths, Miracles & Much More ...]
Our purpose ... is to describe the rich variety of anomalous, unexplained, sometimes totally bizarre phenomena that people have experienced in all times and places and that are still occurring today. ... the nature of the world and of our existence are quite different from that which we were taught at school. The reality is far more interesting, humorous and expansive than any religious or rational, scientific world-view can possibly accommodate.
It is not our intention here to dispute anyone's beliefs or theories — but we should like to point out their limitations. There are things that happen in this world - and have occurred throughout the whole of human experience - for which there has never been a lasting explanation. Explanations are temporary products, coming and going in response to fashions. Meanwhile, the happenings they are supposed to explain carry on as mysteriously as ever.
   — John Michell and Bob Rickard
        The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena (Rough Guide Reference)
         (New York, NY: Rough Guides Ltd, 2007)
Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize, here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden."
Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules as the center of the universe.
So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations beyond.
[...]
   — Katya Walter, Tao of Chaos
        Sub-title: Merging East and West
        (1994, 1996)

Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course]. Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of accumulated knowledge.
The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which, in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms.
This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
[...]
— Christian von Nidda, Our Secret Planet
(2005)

Here is an observation about UFO-Aliens cover-up or conspiracy that may be of general interest, although some readers would not agree with the observation (e.g., they may say that some whistleblowers, such as Bob Lazar on the Roswell-type flying saucers in secret Area-51 labs, have already come forward) ...
If any long-term coherent cover up of UFO information does exist, however, then it must operate at all levels of government and the media. It must encompass all the relevant written materials, from the briefest handwritten note in government files to entries in squadron log books to letters in the personal papers of members of the Establishment. Hundreds of politicians, service personnel, police officers, clerks and officials, over half a century, would be required to excise any reference to the reality of UFOs from official documents and the media. The number of people who would have taken part in this cover up would be vast, yet not one person has broken ranks to 'blow the whistle' on the greatest story ever told. Meantime, millions of dollars are being spent every day on space probes and radio telescopes that are searching for evidence of alien life. Would there be any reason for a conspiracy of silence if that evidence already existed?
— Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows
(2002)
Check this out: The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings

Even though I am a "Charismatic Christian", the views presented herewith, in this Mysteries of the World Website, will NOT be colored by this fact of being a Charismatic Christian. Rather, where and when I find it necessary (and usually, I would NOT find it necessary, since I find it tiresome to repeat myself, again and again and again ..., ad infinitum ..., but if I should find it necessary to repeat myself), I will then state what my Charismatic Christian beliefs lead me to believe in — even though I am aware that my own Charismatic Christian beliefs may or may not be the same as, or in accord with, those beliefs of others who also may want to regard themselves as Charismatic Christians (nb/note well: there appears to be so many varieties of Charismatic Christian beliefs, including from those who are simultaneously of the traditional-historical denominations — such as the Roman Catholics, with their purgatories, mortal and venial sins, and their Mother this and Mother that. Shudder! Shudder! Shudder!).
Thus, for example, I do not necessarily "believe" in "ghosts", even as I (will later) examine the entire gamut of so-called "paranormal events or phenomena", especially of those with a psychic bent (truly, these are bent!, as in less-than-straight, aka "crooked", thinking variety). Many so-called "ghosts" are probably some form of "fallen angels" or "demons" of the Biblical kind, masquerading as either gods, demons, spirits, ghosts, or even "angels of light" (when they are obviously "fallen" and are "angels of darkness", or "sons of darkness" as used in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e. The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness).
Anyway, the author of 1 John, gave us a simple test against any "spirit" to see whether that spirit is of light (God; Christ/Son of God; Holy Spirit of God/Comforter/Advocate/Paraclete/The One; Jehovah/Yahveh/Yahweh/God the Father) or of darkness (Satan, Lucifer, the Devil; the Anti-Christ; the False Prophet; the Beast):
²This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
   — First Epistle of John
        (1 John 4:2-3; New International Version/NIV)
        (Note: many Catholics like NIV and dislike KJV! Tough!)
Whatever the case may be about "ghosts" and other "apparitions", in this website, I have stated that we will be truth-based and science-based. Despite this, definitely, I will not be ashamed of being a Charismatic Christian or of God's Word:
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Luke 9:26; NIV)
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Mark 8:38; NIV)
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. (Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans; Romans 1:16; NIV)

As stated in our Mysteries Blog, the ' Mysteries of the World' Website does NOT aim to sensationalize any particular 'Mystery', although we will examine and explore all possible viewpoints pertaining to each 'Mystery' — including the fringe AND the mainstream.

We will, of course, come to a conclusion (eventually!) about each 'Mystery' ... even if that conclusion may eventually turn out to be 'as yet unresolved' or 'unexplained to our satisfaction'.

GENERAL MENU

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Prologue:

Appetisers:

Introduction:

Articles:

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Religion/Spirituality:

Warning:

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Utility:

- Notes & YouTube Videos

CONTENTS

1.0 Prolog

2.0 Notes

Hell in Christian beliefs

3.0 YouTube Videos

3.1 Video Clips

3.1.1 Video Summaries

3.2 Additional Video Clips

3.2.1 Video Summaries

4.0 Epilog

By Stanton T. Friedman (Former Nuclear Physicist)

SEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT

Matthew 7

[Mysteries, Monsters, Mutants, Myths, Miracles & Much More ...]

ARTICLES

General Mysteries

The Universe & Its Mysteries

UFOs

Aliens & Alien Autopsies

Real Aliens & Alien Abductions

Ancient Astronauts

Cryptic Creatures

Phenomenal Places

Bible Mysteries

'About'

Mainstream vs Fringe

Misc