I used to go for a while to 7th Day Adventist Church, they do not believe in Hell or in Death, but they interpreted death as "sleep," because in some places of the Bible death metaphorically called as "sleep "So according to them we actually not die as we know it, but simply go to sleep until resurrection comes.
Yes of course we can twist and bend the meaning of every single word of the Bible, every single statement, and every single passage or saying, we can also rename literal words into other words and explain each and every verse according to our own point of view, desire, tradition, or a doctrine of denominational church.
I visited and experienced at least dozen different Christian denominations and each and everyone of them has their own dogmas, doctrines, and traditions that they follow and guard religiously.
Fantasies and Christian theological mythologies are very common place in all churches I ever visited, and in one particular instance when I was in "Trinity Church" a pastor once declared that Bible is one big aphorism in its context and nothing in it should be taken literally for its Word.
I see the same trend on Christian Forums as well, and I believe that this is result of false teachings of the church, and because of such false teachings the people do not take anymore Bible literally and everything for them became in axioms and a figure of speech, and "life is good."
I quit going to the church a while ago and never missed, I study Bible on my own and I can clearly see how different the teachings of the church and the Truth of the Bible.
I understand Bible literally as it written, and I understand death as it written about it in the Holy Book, and I understand resurrection and life as the Holy Scripture describes it, and I am very happy that I stop listening to all that nonsense of the church, and my perspective on life and death became much more clear and much better understood than ever before.
The Judgment Day will come to all of us, and the goats will be separated from the sheep, and someone will inherit the Kingdom of GOD, and someone will be thrown into Hell, and by this action of Christ the truth about Life and Hell, literal and figurative of the Bible, will be revealed in full.
Matthew 25.31-46
31."But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.
32.And all the nations will be gathered before Him, and
He will separate them from one another as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,
33.
and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. (Zechariah 10.3)
34.Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come you, who are blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35.
I was hungry and you gave Me to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you invited Me in,
36.
naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.'
37.Then the righteous will answer saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?
38.And when did we see You a stranger and invite You in, or naked and clothe You?
39.And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?'
40.And the King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'
41.
Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me accursed ones into the Eternal Fire, which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels. (Matthew 13.49-50)
42.
I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
43.
I was a stranger and you did not invite Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison, and you did not visit Me.'
44.Then they themselves also will answer saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?'
45.Then He will answer them saying,
'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'
46.And these will go away into
Eternal punishment, but the righteous into Eternal Life."
