What is the point of Hell?

Question

What is the point of Hell? If an evil person were to die and go to hell for, let’s say, 10 years or even 100 years and then “rehabilitated” went to heaven with the rest I would see some logic to it. What’s the point of an endless punishment? The reason punishment exists is to prevent you from repeating the same mistake. This makes me understand that if there were a god he would be a sadistic one, not a loving.

Answer 1

To keep the simpleminded scared.

Answer 2

Do you believe in Heaven being forever? If so, that why not Hell?

If someone repents and makes it to Heaven, they have made a choice to accept God, and when they get there, they accept Him with their entire soul.

However, if someone dies and is not repentent and does not accept God, then can they go to Heaven? No. At that point, they have rejected God with their whole soul, choosing the sin on their soul instead of God. This is why they are condemned to Hell. And once you end up there, it is forever. There is no "timeout", or only spending a few years and then you get to go to Heaven. Hell is permanent.

Our time to accept God and repent is now, while we are here on earth. The reason it is so urgent that we do so is because we never know when we will die. You're reading this message right now, but you don't know that maybe tomorrow, while going to the grocery store, you could die in a car wreck. Most of us expect to live to an old age, but that isn't guaranteed. Death could come at any second. This is why God is calling us because He wants to save us.

Nothing in our imagination can conjure what Hell is really like. It is that bad. Ask yourself, is that where you want to spend eternity?

Answer 3

Excellent question! And thank you..let me try to answer that for you. 1st let me try to define the term. Lets no try to use the word "hell" as its classically used--I think what's more important is that hell is separation, ETERNAL separation from God. Someone once said " If God in essance is love, then the absence of God must be hate, the compleate absence of love. So the people that choose this get confirmed into an eternal existance to live WITHOUT his love.

"Hell", John-Paul Sarte said, "is other people".He's sorta right, So the "other ppl" get confirmed that reject that love get confirmed into union with those others.

Think about it, if it were reversed it would be something like this.... God would have to OVERRULE the freedom of the many in order to transport them into a heaven they do not want to be at. I'm absolutely convinced that rejection of God, heaven or hell, would make no difference because the choice is to be separated from Him and if you choose that path, nothing could be more tormenting then to see Him everyday. Its the CONFIRMATION OF THE SACREDNESS OF FREEWILL.

Answer 4

Well you are warned every day of your life that there IS a Hell and that is where the ungodly will go. It is up to you to chose if you want to go there or not YOU have a choice for now. Once you die there is no longer a choice. So if you live for say 90 years and every day you chose to live an ungodly life, you cannot say that God is wicked. It is YOU that are choosing to be wicked.
That would mean that for 29,200 days you have chosen to ignore God and live for yourself. Id say that was a very loving God giving you all those chances to repent. (I'm guessing that by 10 years you are old enough to decide)

Answer 5

We know that God is a holy and just god and man has an evil heart of sin due to the fall of adam therefore we were seperated from god by our sin we in other words were born in sin from birth therefore we needed a redeemer which was Jesus Christ he lived a perfect life and died on the cross to pay our penalty for that sin therefore by faith when we accept Jesus we are saved and all those who reject this way will go to hell not becuse god sent them there but because of there own free will but while we are here on this earth Gods grace and his mercy is unlimited so no matter who you are or what you have done you can have forgiveness for your sins and can be born again but after this life there are no more chances, for eternity is forever.

Answer 6

As I understand it, after man's fall into sin, God has required all men to choose between accepting or rejecting Him as sacrificial payment to wipe away our sinful nature. God is faultless and cannot be in the presence of sin. Hell is therefore the only place in existence where God's presence does not exist. That is its purpose, to separate those who have never had sin forgiven from God. This is not something He wants to do, but He gave man free will and lets them choose their own outcome. He created it only as a place of separation from His presence. That's bad enough. The other punishments associated with Hell are a result of Lucifer's dominion over that realm. He can do what he pleases because God is not there.

Answer 7

A fair question ... supposedly God wants ALL of his children to enter Heaven and be with him ... so why would he define an eternal punishment to prevent others from making penance?

But the Biblical God makes very little sense if you analyze the doctrine ... if the early Jewish people had kept their man-made laws, rules, and war doctrine out of religious texts/traditions we'd all be in a better place.

Answer 8

Yours is a very good question. I have been raised a Christian but I also believe that all the religions are legitimate. In a college psychology class we once had a speaker who claimed to have had a near death experience when he was shot in Vietnam. What he said was very compelling. He said you go through a life review and you feel every hurt that you ever caused anyone to have and you feel every pleasure you ever gave anyone. He later asked, "Can you imagine what Hitler's life review must have been like?" So perhaps hell is the process of going through your life review. Serial killers must have a hell of a time with that.(Pun intended)

Answer 9

Hell is there to punish those who did not act kind and those who did something really bad. It should incourage us to make ourselves the best kind of people we can be so we are rewarded in the after-life. Ultimate Heaven. What we do correctly while we live will pay off when we die.

Answer 10

Your question is so stupid. Do you even have a brain?

There is no rehibilitation in hell. When your there, your there.
God is not sadistic and He is loving, People are just plain disobedient to God and they choose sin and satan over Him. God does have His limits as to how much of that disobedience He is willing to put up with. He does not keep His wrath a secret from anyone.

Answer 11

theirs a interesting thing about hell,years ago hell was colder than space,then someone made it hot,and i heard a story once that a manuscript was written that said one of the disciples was asking Jesus the same type of question,how unfair hell would be to small time sinners,and Jesus said,that in the end he will go to heaven,and release most of the souls,but if he were to preach this than people would sin all the time....i did Little research and found paintings of this very act,tell me would that relay piss the devil off or what....