What is your vision/idea of hell?

Question

For me, HELL would be to live eternally with everyone I don't like!

Answer 1

Hell is the absence of God. Knowing that you could be in his presence and you're not.

Answer 2

Hell is a place outside the wall of heaven. The far side of the gulf where the damned are.
It is a dry place, where you have only your self, alone. No one hears you no one cares. Trying to figure out why you are there. No rest, no sleep, and thirst, it is manifested thirst, because you thirst for the truth, and it is not there.
How long are you there how long there is no time, a minute or a 1000 years can not tell.
Death seams to be better than this, you can not even harm your self, and you can hear the moans of others as if it comes on some windless wind. You are there and you can not move, you can not dare not move for comfort. Then the cursing is it your voice or the voice of others. Who or what do they curse, do not hear do not think, yet what eles can you do.

Answer 3

Hell (at least the way most Christians think of it) is not a Biblical concept. True, the Bible does say that the flames of Gehenna (a word in the Bible often mistranslated as Hell, but in fact referred to a valley outside Jerusalem were refuse was cast aside and burnt,) but the Bible also tells us that those cast into Gehenna will be destroyed. Hell is God's incinerator, where the wicked will be cast into and destroyed. This is a much more logical reading of the Bible than the idea of hell, an idea with numerous flaws and errors.

Answer 4

Hell is an aspect of the lake of fire in Revelation. The KJV inaccurately uses it in some places where the correct usage is hades. Hades (sheol in the OT) was the holding place of the physically and spiritual dead under the old covenant (the sea was for the Gentiles).

Back to the subject...hell was physically manifested as the destruction of Jerusalem and the old covenant temple in 70AD by the Romans. This is why Jesus uses the referrence to the burning trash heap just outside Jerusalem called Gehenna. This and the entire city burned uncontrollably in 70AD. The spiritual significance of hell was that it destroyed the old covenant and the souls (identity) of those who remained in that covenant until it's dismiss. This is further promoted by the fact that hell was never preached to the Gentiles.

Answer 5

Hell will be so horrible I cannot completely describe it. Hell is like a vast sea covered in flames,and that is only the beguinning of the pain and suffering that will happen there. It will be a place of memory and remorse, a place of thirst, a place of wailing and gnashing of teeth. I think id rather not truly find out I will stick to the path of righteosness and seek God how bout you?

Answer 6

Hell is separation from the spiritual world due to mis-use of free will, producing an incompatible situation.

Similer to a fish being out of water, any degree of external gratification, will not satisfy the fish until it is returned to its natural environment, namely, the ocean.

In the same way, we are individual spirit soul's temporarily covered by a gross material body and a subtle material identity, vainly trying to seek happiness in the material world, the flames of dis-satisfaction are certainly hellish, because everything in this world is temporary.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 7

HELL COMES FROM THE HEBREW WORD ((SHEOL )) IN THE OT AND THE GREEK WORD ((HADES )) IN THE NT BOTH SIMPLY MEAN THE (( GRAVE ))
AND THERE IS AN END TO HELL. AND THE LAKE OF FIRE IS NOT HELL BUT WHAT IS CALLED THE SECOND DEATH IN WHICH THOSE WHO DON'T ACCEPT GOD WILL BE BURNED TO ASHES INTO NONEXISTENCE.
Re 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Re 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Re 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED TO CHRIST. HE WAS NOT LEFT IN HELL BECAUSE HE WAS RESURRECTED AND HE DID NOT SEE CORRUPTION OR WHAT WE CALL DECAY BECAUSE HE WAS IN HELL OR (( THE GRAVE )) FOR ONLY 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS.
Ac 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Ac 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his FLESH did see corruption.

Answer 8

Wal-mart. Sunday afternoon, right after church got out, and near the first of the month so everyone's got their government check burning a whole in their Jordache jeans. That to me is pure hell.

Answer 9

I think it might be like this: Let me share with you a vision of hell that came from the appearance of the Mother of God to three children ages 7,9 and 12 in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. These visions were approved by the Church and was accompanied by the "Miracle of the Sun" which over 70,000 people saw, including news reporters:

At Fatima, the Blessed Virgin Mary told the three child seers that many souls go to hell because they have no one to pray or make sacrifices for them. In her Memoirs, Sister Lucy describes the vision of hell that Our Lady showed the children at Fatima:

"She opened Her hands once more, as She had done the two previous months. The rays [of light] appeared to penetrate the earth, and we saw, as it were, a vast sea of fire. Plunged in this fire, we saw the demons and the souls [of the damned]. The latter were like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, having human forms. They were floating about in that conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames which issued from within themselves, together with great clouds of smoke. Now they fell back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fright (it must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons were distinguished [from the souls of the damned] by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. That vision only lasted for a moment, thanks to our good Heavenly Mother, Who at the first apparition had promised to take us to Heaven. Without that, I think that we would have died of terror and fear."

Answer 10

I don't believe in Hell, I am Christian and it sounds like a fairy tale to me. Koresh is right, this idea of Hell that TV preachers talk about is not in the New Testament and Christ doesn't talk about it.

Answer 11

As Ernest77h said, hell comes from the Hebrew word sheol. The root of the word "sheol" is "question." Hence, they went down to the "unknown."

If you want to understand hell, study Zoroastrianism. That's where it comes from, not Judaism.