Expert: Brenda Martin - 1/24/2005

Question
HI:

    Thakyou for taking my question. In Exodus 19:12 when God says that anyone who touches the Holy Mountain must die. He says something similar about the the Holy of Holies. My question is: Do those who have died from touching the Holy object go to heaven? Or Do they Go to hell? Thankyou for you answer.

  Pete

Answer
"DO THOSE WHO HAVE DIED FROM TOUCHING THE HOLY OBJECT GO TO HEAVEN? OR DO THEY GO TO HELL? "

That raises the question---If Adam had not sinned, would he eventually have gone to heaven?

Gen. 1:26: “God went on to say: ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.'” (So, God's purpose for Adam was that he be caretaker of the earth and of the animal life there. Nothing is said about his going to heaven.)

Gen. 2:16, 17: “God also laid this command upon the man: ‘From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.'” (It was not God's original purpose for man someday to die. God's command here quoted shows that he warned against the course that would lead to death. Death was to be punishment for disobedience, not the doorway to a better life in heaven. Obedience would have been rewarded by continued life, eternal life, in the Paradise that God had given to man. See also Isaiah 45:18.)

HELL--Definition: The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the GRAVE” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she'ohl' and its Greek equivalent hai'des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the COMMON GRAVE OF DEAD MANKIND;

However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished, this has no basis in scripture.

The bible shows that mankind die and sleep in their grave awaiting a resurrection, so the answer to your question is; these people went to the grave, whether they receive a resurrection to life on earth in the future, rests with God.

There is only ONE sin that is unforgivable and that is "sinning against the holy spirit" only God knows if this has taken place.

All the best
Brenda