Where is hell?

Question

If hell is located in the center of the earth, then it must be a tangible fire. How, therefore, is it possible to affect non-tangible things such as a spirit for example?

Answer 1

because people create hellish condidtions

look at Darfur

Answer 2

Your first question is: WHERE IS HELL? I'll come back to that question a bit later on. You are also asking something like: WOULD SPIRIT BE AFFECTED BY THE TANGIBLE FIRE OF HELL? It seems that the answers has to be YES and NO at the same time. YES, in order for the soul (let's assume that soul = spirit) in order for the soul to suffer in Hell. NO, because if the tangible fire of Hell was to 'evaporate' the soul (that is, the spirit) then there would be a way to escape the said suffering. All of it is deliciously complicated, and I am intending to write a book about it. It will be called: PHYSICS OF HELL.

Now, where is Hell?

If you have colon cancer, hell is up your b***. I read that in an answer up there (or down below, if my answer is chosen as the best one), and I believe that all answers are divine. But really, where is Hell? If it was in the center of the earth, like you suggest, then there should be a way for us to heat our homes with it, and make hotbaths, and that would be cool when you meet with the ladies, if you know what I mean. I've heard that HELL IS IN THE DETAILS.

But really, really, I believe that hell is that little hole, that very very very little little little holy hole located at the center of a string. A superstring. That, my asker-friend, is where Hell is located. IN THE VOID, AND WHERE THERE AREN'T ANY CONNECTION.

Answer 3

Hell is described in scripture as many things, like pain, suffering, fire, and so on. It's impossible to know where it is, but its doubtful that it exsists as a physical element or place in our physical world. Remember, Jesus told us that if His kingdom were here, His people would fight, but His kingdom is not here. This is the same concept that so confounded the Priests of that time. They expected for Jesus to reign here, in the physical world.
As for the ability to affect non tangible things...well, from our limited human perception, who is to say that our spirit is not tangible? Or that the creator of that same spirit cannot make a fire that can effect whatever He desires it to effect.
We see only the surface of what God created, and very little of that...

Answer 4

hell is the common grave of all mankind

nothing more nothing less

the common grave of all mankind




"How is it possible to affect non tangible things such as a spirit for example?"

It depends on the condition of your spirit and as to whether you are afraid of a burning hell and in turn this will affect the condition of your spirit.............what you believe..........what you think..........and especially what you have faith in will affect the very core of your being...........it seems: multitudes of people who have more faith in the existence of a burning hell than in any thing else

maybe i chose the wrong word.....instead of faith in hell, i should have said FEAR OF HELL


fear of hell this will definitely affect the spirit in not only non tangible ways but in tangible ways as well


once again: hell is the common grave of all mankind

Answer 5

The concept of Hell as we know it now, comes from the old testament. The Jerusalem of the Old Testament is described as having a place outside the city where they burned the bodies of the dead. It was not however, called Hell. The name was in old Hebrew.

Answer 6

It's over there. I believe that hell is the lack of the presence of God. Fire is just a representation of the horrible-ness of hell for primitive people who knew just how bad fire could be.

Answer 7

My, my... we spiritual humans are not even solid... hold a flashlight to the palm of your hand... does not the light shine right through? Hell or heaven is where you believe / feel you are at, at any given moment... probably some of both most of the time.

RICHARD

Answer 8

Ohio

Answer 9

I believe...
Hell is existence on Earth itself. When we reconnect with God, whoever he, she, it is, we leave hell and don't come back but enter another level of existence where the next set of questions and problems await us for further training. Hell is basically existence outside the presence of "God". Biblical hell? That's just stupid.

Answer 10

yes hell is in the center of the earth theres even documented proff and can hear hell on the web seight www.soundsfromhell.com the deval is on earth trying to get as many soals he can to follow him into hell i for one read my bible and pray

Answer 11

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; also the Greek ge´en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction.

Concerning this use of “HELL” to translate these original words from the Hebrew and Greek, Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (1981, Vol. 2, p. 187) says: “HADES . . . It corresponds to ‘Sheol’ in the O.T. [Old Testament]. In the A.V. of the O.T. [Old Testament] and N.T. [New Testament], it has been unhappily rendered ‘Hell.’”

Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, unabridged, under “Hell” says: “fr[om] . . . helan to conceal.” The word “hell” thus originally conveyed no thought of heat or torment but simply of a ‘covered over or concealed place.’

“Hellfire” has been a basic teaching in Christendom for many centuries. It is understandable why The Encyclopedia Americana (1956, Vol. XIV, p. 81) said: “Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception.”

Translators have allowed their personal beliefs to color their work instead of being consistent in their rendering of the original-language words. For example:
(1) The King James Version rendered she’ohl´ as “hell,” “the grave,” and “the pit”; hai´des is therein rendered both “hell” and “grave”; ge´en·na is also translated “hell.”
(2) Today’s English Version transliterates hai´des as “Hades” and also renders it as “hell” and “the world of the dead.” But besides rendering “hell” from hai´des it uses that same translation for ge´en·na.
(3) The Jerusalem Bible transliterates hai´des six times, but in other passages it translates it as “hell” and as “the underworld.” It also translates ge´en·na as “hell,” as it does hai´des in two instances. Thus the exact meanings of the original-language words have been obscured.

What is the origin of the teaching of hellfire?

In ancient Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs the “nether world . . . is pictured as a place full of horrors, and is presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.” (The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Boston, 1898, Morris Jastrow, Jr., p. 581)
Early evidence of the fiery aspect of Christendom’s hell is found in the religion of ancient Egypt. (The Book of the Dead, New Hyde Park, N.Y., 1960, with introduction by E. A. Wallis Budge, pp. 144, 149, 151, 153, 161)

Buddhism, which dates back to the 6th century B.C.E., in time came to feature both hot and cold hells. (The Encyclopedia Americana, 1977, Vol. 14, p. 68)
Depictions of hell portrayed in Catholic churches in Italy have been traced to Etruscan roots.—La civiltà etrusca (Milan, 1979), Werner Keller, p. 389.

But the real roots of this God-dishonoring doctrine go much deeper. The fiendish concepts associated with a hell of torment slander God and originate with the chief slanderer of God (the Devil, which name means “Slanderer”), the one whom Jesus Christ called “the father of the lie.”—John 8:44.