can anyone describe hell?

Question

ok v all have a little idea about hell from books and tv
so give me all d answer possible
d most realistic answer wins

Answer 1

"HELL HAS ITS ADVANTAGES"

Yes, hell has its advantages for some people. There will be no:

1. PREACHING
2. PRAYING
3. PAYING
4. PROGRAMS
5. PERFECT PEOPLE
6. PROPHESYING
7. PRIDE

PREACHING -- Many people hate preachers and preaching. They say preachers are nosey and meddlers.

Although there will be no preaching, there will be plenty of preachers in Hell -- lots of them. There will be plenty of men who stood behind a pulpit in a church and said "There is no Hell!"

The false prophet was cast into the lake of fire. A false prophet is a preacher who doesn't know or, at least, doesn't tell the truth.

PRAYING -- Some churches have one or two prayer meetings a week. Others pray all night. This practice is despised by thousands. There won't be any prayer meetings in hell. That ought to be a relief for some, although everyone there will be begging for relief. (Hmm, maybe there will be prayer in Hell).

PAYING - A number of pastors are just plain beggars. They are always, always taking an offering. They want more money, so they can erect larger buildings, etc. What do they mean begging for money for churches in other countries when we have people starving in our own country, That preacher sure collects a lot of money -- guess he wants to buy a Cadillac or something!

All that will stop in hell. No offering plates down there, and no collections taken.

PROGRAMS -- Churches seem to compete with one another for the best program. The committees sit up until late at night, putting together some program that is repulsive to many.

What are the doing wasting all that gas for those big clunky busses. What are they doing going to good peoples' houses and trying to steal their children away to their church so they can turn the kids away from their parents religion. What are all those noisy kids doing in my neighbor's back yard! What is all that singing, it is keeping me from my nap!

There will be no programs in hell. What an advantage to those who are irritated by these things.

PERFECT PEOPLE -- Some folk leave the impression they think they are perfect. How presumptuous. Whoever heard of a perfect person. That crowd won't be in hell -- another good thing about the hot spot.

PROPHESYING -- A host of traveling evangelists are always stirring up people to a frenzy by their predictions. They assert that an unbelievable calamity, yes, a catastrophe, will probably take place at any time.

Those guys have scared some people and made plenty of folk mad with their fear-based dogmas. All such lecturing will be missing in hell.

PRIDE -- Those poor souls who go around bragging about themselves are full of pride. But you'll never be able to detect pride in any form after entering the place where fire is not quenched.

PROBLEM -- One big problem I see about going to hell is that all the hypocrites will be there -- not just a few like there are in the churches, today. How folk rant and rave about these religious imposters. They can't stand them. Jesus couldn't either. He denounced them sternly and consigned them to hell.

PARDON OR PUNISHMENT -- HELL is a place for eternal punishment with everlasting destruction from the glory of the presence of God to all those that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ -- all those unsaved, including unregenerated professors of religious creeds - but lacking Christ's pardon. If a person is not pardoned, he must be punished.

A thrice holy God prefers to pardon. Will you let him do this for you? "Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). Who wants to go to hell in spite of its advantages? Not I. Surely not you! Just pray: "Lord, I am a sinner. Save me for Jesus' sake. I invite Thee into my life as my Saviourr." "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name" (John 1:12).

-- A. Woods

Answer 2

Which one?

The bible decsribes 4.

Gehenna, Sheol, Hades and the Grave.

Gehenna is the "Lake of fire that burns night and day." This WAS A DUMP OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM in the Old Testament, and was used throughout the Bible as a symbol of Eternal Destruction. WHY? Because, as most Cities of that Time, Jersualem was a walled city and when a crook or homeless person died, they simply tossed the corpse into Gehenna, the garbage dump, tossed on a bunch of "sulphur or lime" to keep the flies from blowing on it and kept the dump burning 24/7, 365 days a year. This fire WAS NEVER ALLOWED TO GO OUT. If you read the Torah, you see Yahweh/Jehovah had instructed the Israelites on the causes of disease and how to prevent them, some 3,000 years before modern hygiene. So they new in order to keep disease from spreading into the city, all refuse must be destroyed completely. So basically they had a "never ending lake of fire outside their city." This grew into legend over the years as you would think it would.

Sheol, Hades and the Grave are usually interchangable and the Bible says in the Book of Revelation that Hades and Death will be thrown into the Lake of Fire (meaning that Death and the Common Grave of all mankind will be destroyed forever) in it. So we have a symbolic hell where Death and the Grave will be destroyed in order for God's Kingdom to return. Sounds like a nice plan. No eternal suffering in an eternal hell, just like before your birth, if you don't accept you just won't "be." God would get "nothing" out of an eternal punishment, would he? It wouldn't be to His Glory in any way and show instead a hate filled and petty God, which he is not.

Answer 3

You are livin in it, breathin it and lookin at it all around you. I am a Gnostic Christian and we believe that there is no "hell" (like the fiery pit in the ground). We believe that the closest thing to hell is our planet. It is the only place in the entire collection of universes that has pain, suffering, murder, rape, grief and guilt,etc. Our goal as Christians is JUST TO SURVIVE THIS PLACE and go home. We believe that if you make the wrong choices in this life, you just keep coming back until you make the right choices and then you get to heaven. Now heaven is a whole other really cool place but u only ask about hell. To sum up, no hell, no crazy guy w/ a pitchfork running around ruining every ones lives, no curses, no evil spirits or ghosts. It was all made up to bring control amongst people and it has continued for thousands of years.

Answer 4

Hell is nothing. If there were a hell, people would be so sh*t faced scared that they would never commit any crimes.

We are in Hell, the bible was just written by a bunch of hacks with nothing to do, so they wrote a nice story to get people's moral up and take our minds aways from the living hell.

I think after we die, we all end up having to do the chore we hate the most, for eternity... mowing the lawn on a six hundred acre farm, with only a pair of scissors... that would be my hell...

Answer 5

People often forget they have brains when it comes to a topic such as hell. Oh, many persons will ponder on financial or other matters, but when hell is the subject they seem to prefer that someone else do the thinking. They may even push all hope of reasoning aside and declare, as one hell-fire believer did, that if he did not think the Bible taught a literal, red-hot, soul-scorching hell he would throw his Bible into the ash can. That is an extreme case. But it reflects a modern-day tendency to try to make God conform to man’s ideas of how things should be run.

Pagan religions are noted for teaching red-hot hells. The ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Persians, Grecians and Hindus taught flaming hells. The Buddhists teach a hell wherein people cook and sizzle in blazing kettles. Is the Bible hell as hot as the pagans paint theirs? The answer is NO.

This raises the question: Did Almighty God create such a place of torment? Well, what was God’s view when the Israelites, following the example of peoples who lived nearby, began to burn their children in fire? He explains in his Word: “They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.”—Jeremiah 7:31.

Think about this. If the idea of roasting people in fire had never come into God’s heart, does it seem reasonable that he created a fiery hell for those who do not serve him? The Bible says, “God is love.” (1 John 4:8) Would a loving God really torment people forever? Would you do so? Knowing of God’s love should move us to turn to his Word to find out just what hell is.

Want to know more?

www.watchtower.org

Answer 6

The best place to really find out is in the Bible. You can look in the index for hell and go to those verses.

It does mention Everlasting Torment, Fire, Seperation from God and other things. It is not a joke ......it's a real place just like Heaven. People make jokes but they are very uninformed and have shut God out.

The person that said there can be redemption after death needs to check the Bible. What scripture says that!

It says after death comes the judgement. It's too late then. God doesn't throw HIS children in Hell, it's the Devil's children that go to Hell. He gives us all the free will to choose his ways or Satan's ways.

Many just give their own opinions. To Really know.........check the scriptures.

Answer 7

I don't know for sure, but I can give you an idea.

You're in black nothingness, all you feel is pain, discomfort, and everything inbetween. For the first couple of weeks, you can't think because the pain is so overwhelming. Then after a long time you have flashbacks of your life on earth. You blame youself for not believing in God and curse everyone who had a chance to save you and did not. Your memories soon start to fade after the first year. And after 10,000 years have past, this is all remember: pain and suffering.

Against popular belief, there is no parting in hell.

Answer 8

Hell is already here for many people on the planet. Hell is what America brings to poorer countries when it drops bombs on innocent people, killing babies, children and women, and then tries to justify it with some bullshit thing about trying to protect the motherland. Hell is losing a loved one because a trigger happy moronic police officer shot your husband multiple times because he thought your driving license was a gun, now you have to support a family by yourself as well as grieve the loss of your partner. Hell is losing your children to a disease that could be cured if big pharma were not money grabbing assholes. Hell is already here.

Answer 9

Hell is what you imagine it to be. For most, it would be separation from God.

Hell would be your darkest fears, three fold with no escape. It would be loss of your own sanity and loss of ones own desire for redemption.

But see, I believe that redemption is possible even after death. God cannot be all loving and forgiving and while at the same time throw his "children" (us) into the pits of Hell without the hope of redemption.

If we go to Hell, it is because we put ourselves there. In a lot of ways, that kind of makes it worse. My own fears are far worse than anything anyone else could ever throw at me.

Answer 10

If there IS a hell im sure to go, but I'm pretty sure since it's designed to be torturous and all that hell would be different for everyone. The red goateed pitchfork weilding thing is just an image. Hell is whatever would be the worst thing possible for you personally.

Answer 11

I suppose they could if they have been introduced to the concept or maybe if they read Dante's Inferno. But my personal hell was living with a woman that took me for granted and my not being able to leave because of our son. "But, all things come to he who but waits." (Emerson). Having lived through hell, and survived (divorced), it sure is better to be in heaven, if anyone ever asks. Seriously, hell is a concept used to oppose good. Positive and negative, yin and yang. All concepts to describe pain or joy. If you are asking about the reality of fire brimstone etc. It was made clear to me that we leave the physical body on this 'plane of existence'. Physical pain is in the 'here and now'. Not the 'here after'.