Who here believes that there is a hell?

Question

If god could create the MULTIVERSE so much beauty then how could he create a hell. Or is the God of the New Testament a DIFFERENT GOD than the one of the Old Testament and the One of the old Testament is not worth worshipping? Now my opinion is that there is no hell and Christians worship a completely different God than the one of the old testament for Jesus taught a message of tolerance and peace. Now what do you think?

Now what I was wondering is how God could and would create a place where his creations whom he loves burn for eternity.

Answer in detail.

More importantly I do NOT WANT a LITERALIST interpretation of the bible. I could go to the Catholic Church down the street and asked a priest if I want to be considered I was going to hell because I want a better interpretation.

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF does not just apply to christians therefore christ taught a message of tolerance. Again I'm not getting the answer I look for and do not copy my description it is called read between the lines Methodists as myself do that.

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF does not just apply to christians therefore christ taught a message of tolerance. Again I'm not getting the answer I look for and do not copy my description it is called read between the lines Methodists as myself do that.

Answer 1

Without a shadow of doubt!....I believe everything the Bible says because everything it says....Comes To Pass!

Answer 2

I'm not sure what you mean by "MULTIVERSE", but yes I believe in hell, and no I do not believe that there is a different god in the Old and New Testaments.

On hell: Human beings have God-given free will (the option to follow or not to follow God's will). Choices which go against God's will are sin. God cannot be in the presence of sin. God offers forgiveness through Jesus Christ. People have the choice whether to accept this forgiveness or to refuse it. If it can be refused there must be an alternative to accepting it. That alternative is eternal separation from God: hell.
The soul is eternal and will either dwell in the presence of God or out of it. It's your choice.

On different gods: First, where are you getting that Jesus taught "tolerance and peace"?
Matthew 10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword."
Peace was not his goal; salvation of humanity was.
Love is not synonymous with tolerance. Christians are called to love everybody, they are not called to accept everything about anybody. Sin is unacceptable to God, why should it be accepted by His people? That doesn't mean hating the person, it means calling the action into question.
Second, Jesus acknowledged the God the Hebrews had been worshiping from the beginning as "Father". He never claimed to be some "new god" sent to turn people away from the old bad god. He claimed coexistance with the absolute one true God that had first initiated a covenant with Abraham, that had created the world, that had been God all throughout the Old Testament.
Third, the God of the Old Testament was not some evil, destroying monster. He was as invested in forgiveness and reconciliation with humanity as Jesus.
Ezekiel 18:21-23 "But if the wicked turn away from all their sins that they have committed and keep all my statutes and do what is lawful and right, they shall surely live; they shall not die. None of the transgressions that they have committed shall be remembered against them; for the righteousness they have done they shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?"
And Ezekiel 18: 32 "For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, says the Lord God. Turn, then, and live."
The shift in our understanding of God from the Old to the New Testament is not one of an old, evil god to one who loves and forgives; but from the desire for reconciliation to the means of reconciliation: God dying the death that should have been ours.

I hope this was helpful, let me know if I need to clarify anything.

Answer 3

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have the same G-d. The only main differences are that Christianity has Jesus as Son of God and Islam has Muhammed and Judaism doesnt believe in either Jesus or Muhammed.

I don't believe there is a hell at all. When translations of the Bible were being done, there were a lot of mistakes made in translations. One major one being hell and satan. In the Tanakh(OT) Satan is just an angel doing G-d's will. Early Christians misconscrued it and came up with the devil and hell.

Answer 4

Jesus believed in the Old Testament God, shouldn't that be enough for you all? After all, he was Jewish, and what do Jews follow? The Torrah perhaps? That's their fancy way of saying the Old Testament by the way. Anyway, I think that if God exists, Hell probably does too, but I think what qualifies you to get in or not can and probably would be drastically different. What we have so far is Man's attempt at God's judgement. Two very (or at least somewhat) different senses of "just" probably.

Answer 5

What would our good Judicial system be without prisons?
Our Judges are very kind and loving people WHO ARE JUST.
There must be a place to punish sinners.

The Bible says in the new testament, "all liars will have their part in the lake of fire". Is this lake of fire not mentioned here?

The Bible also says God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He has always been the very same God.

Answer 6

I do!

"Christians worship a completely different God than the one of the old testament for Jesus taught a message of tolerance and peace"?????????

LOL! what Bible are you reading?

lets see, tolerance?..um..

lets look at John the Baptist, he stood in front of Herod to preach that it was wrong for him to marry his brother's wife. yet the Bible counts him as being one of the greatest preacher's for the cause of Christ.

God was so loving and tolerant of sin that he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and then there is that whole flood thing that took out everyone except Noah and his family.

it's true that God didn't create hell for humans, it was for Satan and his demons, and it's wrong to think that God sends us there, if you go to hell, you sent yourself.

Answer 7

First of all we'll never understand God. Sinners who don't repent don't get to stay in heaven with God. Since I'm a Christian and have lost friends who weren't, I really hope we've missunderstood what hell is like. That's also why Christians are trying to tell everyone about Jesus. We don't want you to go to hell.

Answer 8

I think you are wrong. I believe there is and only will be one true god. He has created hell so that his creations will be punished for their sins if they commited too many sins and did not seek forgiveness. Think of it this way: Your parents love you but when you do something wrong, you must be punished. When you lie to your parents it's like refusing forgiveness from god. It justs make things worse for you. God is like everyone's parent. Thus, he is commonly called "the father". See the connection?

Answer 9

HELL IN KJV
One Hebrew word “sheol” is rendered hell. Definition; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranian retreat), grave, hell, pit. Three Greek words are rendered hell; geenna, hades, and tartaroo. Definition of geenna; a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment: - hell. Definition of hades; properly unseen, that is, “Hades” or the place (state) of departed souls: - grave, hell. Definition of tartaroo; (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment: - cast down to hell. Tartaroo is used only one place II Pet.2:4.
Christ teaching the Pharisees in Luke 16:19-31 shows us a separation from God is truly what hell is. The “water” is symbolic for God’s Spirit and love. The word “tormented” means distressed in the Greek, not torture. The “fire” is symbolic for the shame and desire not to be separated from God.
So all who die the first death of the flesh return to God Ecc.12:6-7, but on which side of the gulf do they end up?
Hell is not eternal but is done away with in Rev.20:14-15, called both the second death and lake of fire. This second death is non-existence, for death and hell and those not written in the book of life. This second death or lake of fire is like fat drippings that fall into the fire. Just a poof of smoke into non-existence.
Psa.37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
In my mind what’s worse yet is no memory of you, no tears will be shed for you like you never existed.
Rev.21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
So hell is a separation from God and is not eternal torture or burning. Eventually hell will be done away with or passed away and also some souls. Like fat drippings in the fire, a poof of smoke into non-existence, the second death.

Answer 10

muslims believe in Hell. and it has been speaking in more details in the Quran.
and Hell is really a scary place by the way. that no human can handel.