If we say Jesus is God, and hell is an "absence of God" but in the creed it says "he descended into hell"... Either hell was destroyed when Jesus showed up there or Jesus ceased to be God and there were just two in the Trinity at that time. I don't expect The Truth in your answers as it is all part of a mystery, but has anyone else ever thought about it?
2006-07-23 07:12:06 · 11 answers · asked by Josephine 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not really sure where the Jesus decending into hell bit came from. It isn't in the Bible. Hell makes sense though. If you don't want God, you spend forever without him. You are just getting what you want.
I saw the jellyfish man speaking in church a few years ago and I recently dug out his DVD and really enjoyed it. he saw hell and heaven when he died.
http://www.aglimpseofeternity.org/
2006-07-24 09:14:19 · answer #1 · answered by monkeywoman 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many Christians don't think in an eternal hell. they suspect in hell until eventually the end of the international, at which era devil, the demons, and folk in hell will be solid into the "lake of hearth" the position they're going to conflict through a '2d lack of existence' and afterwards be in actuality nonexistent. while the human beings in heaven will rule with God on a sparkling earth. equivalent to they don't believe in an eternal hell, they don't believe in an eternal heaven. They view it as a waiting position until eventually the hot earth. (it truly is possibly the position particular offshoots of Christianity were given their techniques of turning into gods of their own worlds once they die) it truly is more effective in preserving with the historic Jewish ideals about Sheol (no longer the finest bit about being their own gods, yet some thing else). The eventual divide of Sheol into Gehenna and Abraham's Bosom are the position Christianity receives it is recommendations of Heaven and Hell variety. the total aspect is irrelevant however, because human beings can believe even with the certainty that they prefer however it would not make it actual. All you should do is seem on the origins of the theory to work out why it is incorrect.
2016-11-25 19:59:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't. It's just another misconstruction of the Scriptures by ancient leaders of the roman catholic church that shouldn't be given serious consideration. Notice what the free booklet "Heaven & Hell: What Does The Bible Really Teach?", says:
"The traditional view of hell as a fiery cauldron of punishment has been taught for centuries. Perhaps the first to expound this view among Christians was Tertullian, who lived around A.D. 160-225. In the third century Cyprian of Carthage also wrote: "The damned will burn for ever in hell. Devouring flames will be their eternal portion. Their torments will never have diminution or end" (Peter Toon, Heaven and Hell: A Biblical and Theological Overview, 1986, p. 163).
This view has been officially reiterated over the centuries. An edict from the Council of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 543 states: "... Whoever says that the punishment of demons and the wicked will not be eternal ... let him be anathema" (D.P. Walker, The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment, 1964, p. 21).
The Lateran church council in 1215 reaffirmed belief in everlasting punishment in these words: "The damned will go into everlasting punishment with the devil ..." (Toon, p. 164). The Augsburg Confession of 1530 reads: "Christ will return ... to give eternal life and everlasting joy to believers and the elect, but to condemn ungodly men and the devils to hell and eternal punishment" (Toon, p. 131).
Teachings on the subject of hell have by no means been consistent through the centuries. Beliefs about hell have varied widely, depending on which theologian's or church historian's ideas one reads. Generally speaking, the most common belief has been that hell is a place in which people are tortured, but never consumed, by ever-burning flames.
Hell's location has been a subject of much discussion. Some have held the idea that it was in the sun. For centuries the common view was that hell is inside the earth in a vast subterranean chamber.
The most comprehensive description of hell as a place, as man commonly views it, is found not in the Bible but in the 14th-century work Divine Comedy, written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Dante described an imaginary journey through hell replete with its fiery sufferings.
The popular concept of hell is a mixture of small bits of Bible truth combined with pagan ideas and human imagination. As we will see, this has produced a grossly inaccurate portrayal of what happens to the wicked after death."
2006-07-23 08:16:53 · answer #3 · answered by william 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is just the creation of a creative human mind the same as heaven. An idea to stop humans being bad as they will go to a place were they will burn or if they are good they wil go to heaven a good place. Any human can create alternatives or better ones in their minds.
2006-07-23 07:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by ADH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask Jesus into your life and be born again by the power of the Gospel (an actual real life event in your real life) if you do this in a prayer sincerely God will answer you! you have to truely seek then God will answer!
2006-07-23 08:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by truth4u 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is a place created for the devil and his angels, it will be separation from God, but its also fire and brimstone, outer darkness and full of hopelessness and despair.
2006-07-23 07:35:32 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes if u r african or muslim
cos their god lets them live in sh 1 t and its just like what you would imagine as hell.
2006-07-23 07:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out some of the missing Books of the Bible......they talk about predestination, Jesus' conversation with the devil as He was taking over hell with His angels.........that type of stuff.
2006-07-23 07:34:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.amazingfacts.org/items/study_guides.asp
Click on "Is The Devil In Charge Of Hell?"
2006-07-23 07:22:29 · answer #9 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing wrong in hell you will have a good time there party's all the time.
2006-07-24 05:16:00 · answer #10 · answered by DARKORD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋