Heaven and Hell for your soul, not for your body? How does a soul "burn" in hell?

Question

Many on here talk about how its not your body that goes to heaven and lives forever, its your soul. So things like aging, bodily functions, etc (even human emotions some have said) would not exist. Well then, how come Hell is associated with physical torture and pain? How do you burn a soul?

Answer 1

You know how you feel happy/sad right? It will be like that in heaven/hell, but times a billion

Answer 2

If you will JUST READ YOUR BIBLE you will find out that ADAM was not created a Body but a SOUL. So, as the Bible says, "the soul that is sinning, it itself shall die." YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL, YOU ARE A SOUL. When you die, you're dead. No, burning in hell, sorry! This is a myth that pagandom and then "christianty borrowed" from pagans. The only time its mentioned in the Bible is the "parable of the Rich man and Lazarus" and in Chapter 20:14 of the Book of Revelation where its MENTIONED as THE 2ND DEATH, THE LAKE OF FIRE, where death and hell are thrown into "the lake of fire" and this means there will BE NO MORE DEATH, EVER! Death is destroyed for the final time by God and Christ!

Also, Ananais and Sapphira in Acts 5 sin against the Holy Spirit and die the 2nd death, going into the Lake of Fire where they will never come out of. Think of it much like "before you were born." You don't remember it, and you won't remember your "punishment" of eternal death. It is eternal and you will never be restored. Punishment ENOUGH.

God is not so unjust as to burn someone forever. This is cruel and false. Only Humans hate so much!

Answer 3

Good point. It supports the fact that the immortality of the soul is a false teaching and is not Biblical. Ecclesiastes 9:5,6 says, "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun." Also vs. 10 "All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She´ol, the place to which you are going. " Sheol means the common grave of mankind. Psalm 146:4 says, "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish." Ezekiel 18:4 says, "The soul that is sinning-it itself will die." All of these scriptures disprove the doctrine of the immortal soul. If there is no such thing as an immortal soul, then a fiery place of torment where these souls go to burn eternally also doesn't exist.

Answer 4

your soul is your life, that includes your body. The belief that some invisible form of you will exit your body at death is a pagan belief. In the same way the idea of hell is purely pagan in origin and simply a mistranslation of 2 Hebrew and 2 Greek words in the bible. The resurrection of man will be on this Earth and not in Heaven. In order to understand the truths of of God in full I would suggest you learn to study and understand for yourself instead of seeking opinions from others. Start from the beginning, good luck.

Answer 5

From my understanding the soul dies when the body dies. The spirit of the person, that life which God gave when He breathed life into you, returns to Him. The body is buried. It may decay. When, according to the Bible, the Day of Judgment comes, at Jesus' return in the clouds of heaven, those faithful who were 'asleep' in the Lord (i.e., those faithful who died before this) will be raised from the dead to join Him and proceed with Him to the Father in heaven for eternity. Their bodies will be glorified bodies, transformed, and not the same as when they were human beings. Their bodies will be incorruptible. Those unfaithful to God, living and dead, will also be raised in a second resurrection, but these will be cast into the Lake of FIre to burn for eternity (i.e., HELL).

Answer 6

It doesn't. The law of karma dictates that an individual soul will be reborn in a situation conducive to furthering it's spiritual progress. Now, this might be a 'good' situation, or this might be a 'bad' situation. But that's as close to 'heaven' or 'hell' as it gets.

As God loves us, He wants us to grow and learn. That's the purpose behind karma. He's not into 'eternal damnation'. That's a human invention.

Answer 7

You are a smart one. I asked myself that question for years. Its not the soul that will burn its the body. its cleraly written. Hell is for real. No where does the bible say that your soul will burn.... remember that. I guess that answers your question and you now know that its not your soul but your body.

read the book of luke chapter 16 verse 19-27

feel free to ask me bible questions they are so interesting.

Like the one about where Cain and able got their wives from...How naieve can we be? Or the other stupid one about who made God...sheeesh!

Answer 8

Heaven and Hell happen here on Earth. They are a result of your actions. It is cause and effect. Heaven and Hell that you experience is instant.

As far as burning, torture, physical pain stuff. I honestly think it is symbolic, not literal. Christ spoke in parables.

Answer 9

Who told you that heaven is for your soul, its for your body, didn't God create you once? So is it impossible to put your body back when you die? Its actually physical pain, and in Islam, each time your body burns it regenerates, and your body in hell is like between illinois and ohio, (dang thats long) so your going to burn for a long time, i suggest you be a good girl and join Islam

Answer 10

Here is the reasoning. You are right. Your physical body will not be burning in hell (or enjoying it in paradise). It will be your soul. In answer to your question, your soul itself will be tortured (or pleasured) but it is beyond our comprehension how that will be done but it will be done. If you believe God, and if you believe He is all-powerful and He created you and your soul, and if you believe that He can easily inflict pain to our bodies, than what is stopping him from inflicting pain to our souls. The analogy is like trying to convince someone 2000 years ago that the world is round or trying to explain the politics of Washington D.C. to a sparrow. I can drop dead from lecturing but it will not happen. There are just too many gaps in between and it is beyond our comprehension.

The only God describes it in physical terms is becaue this is all we know, all we understand, and this is all we are familiar with. Asking God to tell us how he plans to inflict pain to our souls is just like asking me to go to a farmer in rural Mongolia and trying to prove to him mathematically that e=mc^2.

Answer 11

I don;t believe in that but i assume for those that do that it's a metaphoric "burn". It means just that the soul is damned to an enternity of suffering in hell not that it is literally scorched in an inferno.