Post by Lee on Jan 21, 2014 1:53:04 GMT
The following is a passage from a central article from the 1995 Christadelphian:
"One of the piercing observations in Matthew 23 seems to be a reference back to the inglorious history of Tophet where the ever-burning rubbish heap which had such powerful historical associations was used by the Lord Jesus as a picture of eternal punishment, the Gehenna fire: “Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell (Gehenna) than yourselves” (verse 15).
The children of the valley of Hinnom were those that were offered in sacrifice to Molech! The willing proselytes whom the Pharisees bound with zeal to the impossible burden of their tradition were doomed, and those who sacrificed them would suffer the judgements of which Jeremiah spoke, the unquenchable fire of Jerusalem’s destruction, at the hand of the Romans—“ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell (Gehenna)” (verse 33).
1995 Christadelphian p140
I had never heard this before in relation to the "child of hell"...do you think it was a reference back to the act of burning children?
"One of the piercing observations in Matthew 23 seems to be a reference back to the inglorious history of Tophet where the ever-burning rubbish heap which had such powerful historical associations was used by the Lord Jesus as a picture of eternal punishment, the Gehenna fire: “Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell (Gehenna) than yourselves” (verse 15).
The children of the valley of Hinnom were those that were offered in sacrifice to Molech! The willing proselytes whom the Pharisees bound with zeal to the impossible burden of their tradition were doomed, and those who sacrificed them would suffer the judgements of which Jeremiah spoke, the unquenchable fire of Jerusalem’s destruction, at the hand of the Romans—“ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell (Gehenna)” (verse 33).
1995 Christadelphian p140
I had never heard this before in relation to the "child of hell"...do you think it was a reference back to the act of burning children?
