What is the Orthodox View on Hell? | Greek Orthodox Sermon (7/25/21) 

Another one, I've been running across what going on if I may ask, right now I'm with them for 8 years, Let me explain, first I grew up going to different churches events minus uh um, and never felt uncomfortable like I do now, I've been doing the Orthodox thing for over 20 years without anyone's help, what I meant by another one it seems like they're leaving in droves that I've have run across just in the last few years here.

@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 Yeah, I’m also a history nerd though. 😆

@@elijahc.brooks3493 same here.

did any of you saw being burned in hell

@@local.albanian.6967 There is fire in hell. It’s not a parable. It’s real. Unlike the western church, we believe God has his presence in heaven and hell because it’s an eternity. That makes sense because Satan’s gonna be thrown to the Lake of Fire for all of eternity. It’s hard to understand that because a lot people just ask “Why doesn’t God just wipe him out of existence?” God only knows...

Yes, the view of hell as “a place one creates for oneself” makes a lot more sense than an angry and sadistic God casting sinners into a lake of fire, although that did conveniently work well as a tool of social control by the Western church for centuries. Universal salvation also does not make sense because it in effect denies the role of human free will. If the human being was created to have free will then he also will need to experience the consequences of his choices (both good and bad).

Father will be addressing this in tonight's Orthodoxy Questions Answered live show!

I think it’s possible! St. Peter writes that when Christ descended, he preached to the spirits in prison who were formerly disobedient (1 Pet 3:18-20)

@@internetuser777 That was for those who died under the old Covenants.

@@internetuser777 That was a one time thing for those for whom grace was not yet fully revealed in Christ. The church is clear: first death, and then the judgement. Our time for repentance is now, do not delay!

No, it's not. ( see Luke 16:26)

I don't see why not. "Every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" Also, God resurrects those who are not in heaven from the grave, to Judge them based off their works and to see who's name is in the book of life. It says hell is cast into the lake of fire, but then proceeds after to say that all who were not found in the Book of life were cast in afterwards. It doesn't say that everyone who was in hell was subsequently not in the book of life, so I think it's possible that some people will have repented post mortem and be in the Book of Life. Now, whether or not this includes those who are not, to get a 3rd chance to repent in the lake of fire, or if they're destroyed. Well that I don't know. But God will reconcile to him all things. So that could mean all things that remain, or even that he could remake those who were destroyed in the lake of fire. Either way, I think the concept of "By then it will be too late" in reference to all tounges confessing is a man made assumption. Because the Bible says that nobody can Say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit. So can I say for certain that people can repent post mortem? Technically no, but I think there's enough Biblical evidence to suggest it's possible.

Origen's theory was rejected by the Orthodox Church. That is supposed to be consequential? Remember, the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles were also rejected by religious authorities. I'm not trying to equate universalism with the teachings of Jesus. I'm just pointing out that religious leaders have CERTAINLY been wrong before.

Thank you for sharing this!!

Nope

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Yes, absolutely.

@@rabbirubiel4932 OP asked Orthodox Christians.

Not all them.

It refers to ben hinnom valley ... Where the waste of temple were burned and the dead bodies burnt( after crucification)

Christ is God.. I gather you're not Orthodox.

Sara, i agree with you, God will clean every human being with his loving fire.

@@bizungo2929 But not everyone will be happy about it, hence why not everyone is saved in the end.

Sara, sin is not part of human nature, it's a proclivity that we get from Adam. Repentance from sin is cohesive with human nature: sin itself isn't. Sin has no ontological existence at all.

@@CHURCHISAWESUM It most definitely is, we are born inherently sinful, attracted to and plagued by sin. From the earliest days of our lives, we have a sinful nature, and we will sin every single day, whether the sin is unintentional, or done so deliberately, as we cannot help it.

Very good. Nowhere in scripture will you find God creating a place where He is not.

It hasn't. It has preserved and defended the full deposit of the Apostolic Faith since Pentecost AD 33. All else is a departure to one degree or another.

@@Southlander1000 not true I'm Orthodox baptized and chrsimated. They reject for example predestination and election taught by St.Paul and others writers I could go on

@@richardanthony8297 If you believe that, then you have abandoned Orthodoxy for something counterfeit.

@@Southlander1000 why don't orthodox believe new testament writings

@@richardanthony8297 The Orthodox Church canonized Scripture. Kinda hard to promote what one doesn't believe. Protestants make arguments like this because they're separated from the Church and it's teachings. Scripture is not something you get to pick and choose what you believe in. It's part of a package that includes ALL of Sacred Tradition: Scripture, the liturgy and prayers of the Church, the writings of the Fathers, the Councils, etc. You don't get to isolate Scripture out. That is the fruit of disbelief.