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Hell Fire

A Personal Testimony

Shemeka, an Amazing Facts worker, shares

how she discovered the Bible truth about hell.

I remember HellTruth.com
as a kid watching a docudrama

about the Son of Sam, the name serial killer David Berkowitz A Trusted Bible Website Just Got Better

used while terrorizing New York City in the mid-1970s during Amazing Facts has recently redesigned and updated our
his killing spree.
website dealing with this topic, and it is now accessible on your

That night, thinking about what I had seen, I couldn’t phone and other devices. If you want to know the truth of what

sleep. Berkowitz was a sinner, and so was I. No, my sins were Scripture teaches about hell, please visit HellTruth.com.
not of the same variety, but I was still a sinner. How many This comprehensive site contains historical perspectives

times had I disobeyed my parents? Fought with my sister? on hell and its sister doctrine of the immortal soul; a library

Lied? I was terriied of being lost and burning in the lames of articles and audio and video messages on the topic; real

of hell forever.
questions and real answers that explain misunderstood Bible
Yousee,Ihadbeenraisedinachurchthattaughtthat passages,suchastherichmanandLazarus;andevenaway

God was going to send sinners to hell after they died to burn for you to get a personal answer to your question about hellire

them throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity.
and the afterlife.
HellTruth.com.
I remember praying that night, with more earnestness Bookmark it, like it, tweet it, post it, share
than I had ever prayed before, that God would save me from it far and wide! People need to know Bible truth about this

hellire. With this picture of God in my mind, He was not subject, because people need to know who God really is!

someone who I loved. I just thought that I needed to be good—
and do more good deeds than bad ones so that I might escape

hell. The eternal ires of hell made God someone to be feared,

and certainly not someone I could truly love.

Set Free

Fast-forward several years. I was sitting in a church next

to my father listening to a minister preach from the book of

Revelation about hellire. He was saying that hellire does not
burn eternally, that it will simply cleanse the earth and go

out. I was astounded. Could the beliefs that I had held all those

years have been wrong? This new information was too clear

from Scripture to brush aside as nonsense.
Today I can truly say that my heavenly Father is my best

and dearest friend. I love the God whom years ago I had no real

desire to love! The Scriptures say it so well: “You shall know the *Did you know Son of Sam is now known as Son of Hope?
truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). Where in Berkowitz reportedly accepted Jesus as his personal Savior in

all of Scripture does such a teaching, burning alive for endless 1987 and is running an outreach ministry to other prisoners.

eons, correspond with the character of a loving God?

God will indeed deal with sin, but He will do it justly.

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