Throwing Fishhooks into Hell (Pencils & Prayer Ropes) 

Can you post the kind of prayers you did?

God bless you father!

How do you know that wasnt a demon, tempting you to the sin of idolatry? Scripture repeatedly warns against communicating with the dead. “And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?” Isaiah 8:19

​​@@thesheep6248we Orthodox already pray for the dead. Even if it was a demon, what possible end game was in mind? Reminding a priest to pray for certain people more? We should all be so blessed with such a demon, helping with our prayer life in such a way. Edited: just realized your not Orthodox and your opinion doesn't matter in matters of the faith. Also, you should attend to your own sins more than trying to get us Orthodox to change our ways. Seems to me that one you might struggle with is pride, thinking that you need to save us poor Orthodox from our own teachings given to us by Christ and His saints. God bless you and grant you many years. Christ is Risen! ☦️ PS. I'm glad you enjoy the Holy Scriptures canonized by our one holy, catholic, and apostolic church!

Maybe they hope to meet me in person?

Sometimes you have to march into hell, for a heavenly cause.

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Well, I don't disagree with what you wrote about hell. :D Thing is, there is a difference in terminology in the Orthodox Church: ''Hades'' is the abode of all the dead until the Resurrection where they await for their punishment and reward; the state of these souls can be improved via prayer. However, that ends with the Last Judgement when hell (and the Kingdom, in its full, open, manifest glory) appears. I plan to make a 'Wrath of God' series, where I will, among other things, comment on the eternity of hell and its nature.

I wonder if you'll make a different video for Purgatory vs. Aerial Toll Houses, or if it will fit somehow into the distinction between Hell and Hades?

I plan on making a video on the tollhouses, no plans for Purgatory as of yet. :-)

@@BibleIllustrated You are a legend Bojan, thank you for showing me so much. Хвала ти Бојане, надам се да ћемо се виђети у блиској будућности.

Its time for you to become Orthodox.

Glad it did, that is why I made the video :-)

“And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this comes judgment” Heb 9:27

Precisely! Varus' story is one of my favorites. No one is beyond salvation!

@@BibleIllustrated thank you for sharing, God bless!

I enjoy your videos and I always appreciate when you include Catholic Saints as I am a Catholic myself who attends an Eastern Catholic parish even though I'm Latin Rite. When the Eastern Orthodox speak about Hell do they distinguish between the Hell of an eternal damnation and the Hell of purification what Westerners would call purgatory? I have heard it said by Eastern Catholics that they believe in the same thing as Purgatory only they don't call it Purgatory they call it Hades and it's a place of darkness, gloom, and waiting. If so I would love to see a video about that subject because quite frankly there really isn't a lot of information on the internet about the eastern concept of a place of purification.

There is no need to be sorry we all should thank you instead, for you time and effort, of creating this for us for free.

Ecclesiastes 9:4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Do you consider yourself an Orthodox Christian? If not, you should check out some other Orthodox resources online and see what Orthodoxy is about. I recently just found about it and I am still learning but I must say it is a beautiful faith.

Thank you so so much Sammy! I need all the prayer I can get! :-)

@@BibleIllustrated one day we must talk to eachother I'll need your help, danger and signs are in my life, it's along story but I'll figure it out how to explain...... 👼😈✝️✝️✝️🛐🛐🛐

Glad you liked it, Abraham! :-)

Thank you sir, I sure did. I’ll ckeck out your toll booth video too.

Amen!

On my channel, in the playlists tab, there's a special Pencils & Prayer Ropes playlist, so check it out to see if you missed out any of the episodes! :-)

You're welcome! :-)

Thank you so much! :-)

He's too busy. Idle hands...

The quote probably wouldn't occur to me, but it is neatly carved into one of my coffee mugs. :D

that would be lovely. it would be nice to meet all the people i've lost again if i make it.

God cannot save only those who don't want to be saved. And that kind of people are those who put anything else before their relationship with God. Some do it out of pride (those who "gnash their teeth" in the Bible), some out of false belief, laziness, etc. (those who "weep"). As far as the others go, well... They can't do anything to change their state, that's unquestionable. The very least thing God does if we ask for it is to ease their pain. It's quite complicated and no one knows for sure. All I can say is that our prayers cannot redeem anything - only God can do that. Yet, a good father fulfills the wishes of his children if they are correct.

@@thewildchimp So you are saying that God isn't stronger than some human who is obviously is obstinate and ignorant. God can by his very nature do anything he wants to do. Ultimately it is up to God when and for how long someone is punished. Since what happens after death is a whole different existence I wonder what point there is to eternal damnation, if you cannot learn from the punishment and slowly come back in to God's grace . It's not like letting a murderer out into the public to go back to evil practices. God knows when an who might yet find be cleansed by "fire'' or whatever Hell really is. Sometimes I wonder if God only tells us what we are capable of grasping and that might be pretty basic...his over all plan could well be far beyond the ability of mortals to understand. Perhaps eternal damnation is the worst possible scenario,and we hear only about that, because God know just how obstinate and dense we can be. Throwing in maybes, or what ifs, or saying..well yes, eventually you'll get out of Hell, if you do the time and learn to be "good", then you won't be "grounded" from my presence any more... Knowing humans, he knows full well that people are willing to gamble, or procrastinate well past the point of safety, so he labels the consequences by severity (maybe?) to get more of his creation to not make bad choices or re evaluate their choices before there literally is 'Hell to pay", and it is going to be much harder,way more painful, messy and complicated to perhaps get back where they should have been in the first place. Now I know I am being wonky about doctrine etc., and perhaps I am indulging in wishful thinking... I just don't think we really understand very much about the bigger picture or how God does things...we only are given what we might comprehend,but what we don't know about God, towers over the highest mountains. Our understanding is a best infantile and we must have simple faith that God is going to do whatever he see fit. Humans may be lost in Time, and Spce...but that's only because we're a little thick, and a little slow ;)

lol I need to work on my diction :-)

Bible Illustrated I also started googling SS Cleopatra and Walrus 🙄

Such an honor to see his heart!

Actually, it's like this: Aquinas: Salvation is impossible without baptism. THEREFORE, St. Gregory must have resurrected Trajan and had him baptized. Me: Nah.

Ohh, I guess I misunderstood. My bad! But I'm quite certain the words of St. Thomas Aquinas are also held by the Orthodox Church as truth, as our Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation in John 3:5, so I wouldn't say it's fair to just point the finger at us, Catholics. It's a similar position both the Catholic and Orthodox profess, that there is no salvation outside the Church. But do we hold it as an absolute truth? I'm confident that we both hope for and believe in salvation of faithful Christians outside our denomination and I would say, justifiably so, for God's grace has no boundaries! Now, if St. Gregory did resurrect Trajan, we don't know. St. Thomas Aquinas saw the contradiction in the Gospel and the salvation of Trajan and expressed an alternative theory, to justify it. And if his theory is false, we shouldn't be too harsh, for even the greatest of Saints can be in such error.

Also, I discovered your channel yesterday and I must say, I really enjoy your work, despite some of our theological disagreements. Keep it up and may God bless you!

Well, baptism IS necessary for salvation, but as you said, God's grace has no boundaries, and the only reason I pointed out to Aquinas is because he commented on that event. :-) Thank you for your kind comments!

@Padraig Fournier it seams strange Bojan didn't know that doctrine, or he just wanted to mock on St. Thomas

Serbia!

his beautifully mustached mouth

@@BibleIllustrated Serbia oh I thought it was RUSSIAN!

He is slavic.serbian,croatian,or polish.

Glad you like it ;)

Thank you!

Well, the Church does not forbid all prayer for suicides, only memorial services and commemorations on the proskomede, tho a lot of bishops allow it. I recall of a priest who's had a vision of hell where the suicides are, and he narrated that the place was so oppressive that all people there needed *a lot* of prayer. So, just keep praying for them and, if you know personally someone who's ended their life, ask for a priest's permission for them to be commemorated during the Liturgy. :-) A friend of mine committed suicide in 2009 so I investigated the issue a bit.

@@BibleIllustrated Are there Biblical prohibitions against prayer for the dead, suicide, or otherwise, or is this, like so many things something that was made up by humans and not a teaching from God. There's lots of times when people have claimed divine inspiration to bolster their own plans or ideas, and lots of times where people were not aware where the origins of some "laws" and traditions actually came from... i'll leave it at that, beyond not underestimating what people who find themselves in positions of power to affect change do; and not all are inspired by God, but are passed on to others as if they were. We must beware and be awrae of false teaching, and teachers, and be knowledgeable enough to recognise that which is false. it isn't always going to be recognizable straight away. It's not as if someone who is trying to pull a fast one is going to let you know their real intentions... Sataan and his many minions and those befuddled by his twisting of the truth is not only the father of Lies,but master of the bait and switch and of course the fake out... the soy latte substitution alternative "less filling' religion Lite. Buyers beware ;)

There's no 'criteria,' in my opinion. We can never know for sure. I don't know about Judas (not an optimist in that regard), and I'm fairly certain Satan cannot be saved. And yes, I think that the damned can be saved. Usually, whenever there is a story of someone being saved from hell, they had some good deed or act of charity. Trajan got out of hell because he helped out a certain widow.

@@BibleIllustrated I read about an orthodox saint who prayed for Satan, and the he appeared to him telling him to stop praying for him and that God was the one in error and not him. The saint realized that Satan was beyond salvation at that point. Constantine Zalalas mentions this saint in one of his lectures too if I recall correctly.

@@al4381 I will mention that too in the upcoming video, Can Satan Repent? :-)

@@BibleIllustrated We can never know for sure. Oh common. You can' t know of your prayers have and effects and teach that doctrine. According to that doctrine Saints can overwrite God's sentence and God is ok with that.

@@BibleIllustrated Not by works, but by Grace we are saved.

On final judgement yes

The Rich Man never asked to get into Heaven. He said "send someone into Hell with me" and "resurrect me".

Aww thank you! :-)

Serbia :-)

Bible Illustrated aw lovely. My partner is Macedonian (Orthodox christian) and I am Australian Russian (christian). You’re videos are great!

Thank you Marie! :-)

Dunno?

Yes

You have NO IDEA what I planned for that part - sadly, I was pressed for time so I had to go with a single image. :D

It was still so funny! I wouldn't mind waiting longer for even better videos tho, don't know about others :'D

The plan was initially to have St. Macarius poke the skull (as in the image), then kick it around, juggle it, play croquet with it (together with Alice and Queen of Hearts) which finally annoys the skull enough to speak. Sadly - pressed for time. :D

Consider that what is translated as “Hell” (or any variation thereof) refers to either 2 concepts in the original languages and culture the scripture was written in: the grave and the destruction of the wicked. By this measure, I’d argue that the very notion of eternal torment has no genuine basis.

Romans 14:10 says those "Under the Earth should confess" which is where Sheol is.

Only the first one and none other.

@@BibleIllustrated I really do enjoy your videos btw. Just want to state there before going further. “Each one will be presented to the Judge exactly as he was when he departed this life. Yet, there must be a cleansing fire before judgment, because of some minor faults that may remain to be purged away. Does not Christ, the Truth, say that if anyone blasphemes against the Holy Spirit he shall not be forgiven “either in this world or in the world to come” (Mt 12:32)? From this statement we learn that some sins can be forgiven in this world and some in the world to come. For, if forgiveness is refused for a particular sin, we conclude logically that it is granted for others. This must apply, as I said, to slight transgressions.” Pope Saint Gregory the Great, Dialogues, 4:39 (A.D. 594). I think he spoke more on it somewhere else but ill find it and edit it later. But to say we can cast fish hooks with our prayers to lift the dead out of hell seems wrong even in the EO church. in other videos you said, purgatory is merit based but how ist this either the same thing? Other then the fact hell is eternal and therefor prayers for the damned are useless?

@@BibleIllustrated So 2/4 so nevermind lol i meant half my b

@@zeloraz8101 Thank you for your kind words :-) I answered to your question in more detail here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lUhVrMPlHes.html

Christ's sacrifice does not infringe on our free will. The Lutheran philosopher Sören Kirkegaard defined sin as an action based on anything but God. A lot of people accept Christ only to fulfill their own selves, or use him as a tool for self-realization, rather than loving him. They as such create a god in their own image. Look at all the proud people who follow Christ only fill a personality trait or feel virtuous. Or those stuck with the prosperity gospel charlatans, who pray to Christ to gain prosperity. Once they loose this world and all its mundane riches, they will be empty, and feel the devastation for ever. That is why confession is so important to any Christian who wants to receive the Eucharist. Confession forces people to humble themselves and realize that they are in fact sinful and need to repent. They will not make excuses for their sins anymore, they will simply ask Christ to cleanse them from these sins so that they can move on. According to St James in the Scriptures, what good is it if a man in good faith tells a homeless man to go in peace to a warm home and eat well? That is what faith without acts is. A man can have faith in Christ, but if that faith does not manifest in actions of love, then it is simply dead. His faith becomes a mere acknowledging of the existence of God, as if God's only importance were to exist. InspiringPhilosophy made a video on the matter of Hell recently which I can recommend to you, brother.

al4381 Thank you for your comment!

I really recommend you reading the letter of James from the Bible. Also didn't Jesus directly say not everyone who says My Lord! My Lord! will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but however accomplishes the will of My Father?

I'm Orthodox :-)

Bible Illustrated what's the difference?

@@DonutKop One looks Eastern Orthodox but recognizes the pope of Rome as the sole head of the Catholic Apostolic church and thus believes in all its doctrines established Ex Cathedra by said popes, including the doctrine of Papal suppremacy, purgatory and so on. The other one is simply part of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is united in communion and has established its doctrine through the councils and believes all patriarchs to be equal but some having a higher respected role, such as the Pentarchy and also the pope in Rome. No one of them is infallible, but they are first among equals. That is the difference.

Diego Ruiz - Exactly. Thomas Aquinas did affirm the Roman Catholic doctrine of baptism of desire.

Well, you can't know if they're in hell or if they'll be saved, but you should pray for the dead regardless :-)

@@BibleIllustrated how about people that have sold their soul to the devil? Can they be saved to?

@@godisgood5054 Well, I can imagine it would be TAD difficult, but you know, the dead belong to the Lord, not to the devil, for He made them, not Satan :-) Infernal contracts are nothing more than vanity badges for demons, nothing more

@@BibleIllustrated so if one sold his soul, it isn't permanent sold to the devil?

It is irrelevant, you'd still get damned unless you repent

Yup! :-)

They thought that they deceived people.

The devil seeks to destroy God's people. There is a spiritual battle.

Because he made a good point

Im a huge fan of him :) instagram.com/p/CDUhQ-Lpvbz/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Because they're wise.

@@BibleIllustrated Muslim wisemen like Al-Ghazzali are as wise or wiser than them. Why not feature them or quote them? My point is: It leads to ecumenistic confusion (sorry for the redundancy).

@@Isphanian I would quote them if their quote would feel in place.

Of course our prayers save souls, God gives that power. :-) Take example from exorcisms. Of course us men cannot influence demons in any way, but by love of God, we can via prayer :-) Same thing here. We don't save them personally, of course, it is still very much up to God.

"The prayers of a righteous man availeth much" James 5:16

Why so?

This ⬇️ is why.

Ecclesiastes 9:4For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Everyone let Christ know the Ecclesiastes quote, He probably missed out on it when delivering the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.

Alright 😇 I’m glad you brought up Lazarus 👍🏽 So, here ⬇️ is another Lazarus for you.

So?

The Bible teaches us that once we die then comes judgement. You cannot escape hell.

Many records in Christian history people doing that.

@@BibleIllustrated So?! If that is your oppinion than you recignize another inspired source of revelation. When did Hrist divided Himself?

@@klaskycsupo121 He didn't.

Haha no

Lols