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Will Calling a Person a Fool Send You to Hell?

“And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of GEHINNOM.”

According to Yeshua, calling a person a fool, because one is angry, is even a more serious offense than saying he is useless, empty and of no value. We know this because the court that tries this offense is higher than the Sanhedrin. However, English translations make it impossible for readers to understand because of how they translated the underlined words – “but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.” Let’s start with the second term first. Translations, like the King James Version above, make it seem that Yeshua was saying that if anyone called another person a fool, he or she would spend eternity in Hell (for Protestants) or for a limited time (for Catholics).

Read the complete blog at -- http://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2013/09/will-calling-person-fool-send-you-to.html

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