Why do you believe in a place called hell?

Question

Why do you believe a just God would put his creation in a place filled with fire and brimstone to torment them for the rest of eternity?

Answer 1

hell is the grave. hell fire was where they burned the dead. man kind may suffer a 2nd death but we wont be tormented for eternity only Satan hand his demons will be because unlike us they can not die

there is some info on hell through out this page
http://dwprince.com/study1.aspx

Answer 2

Maybe there is no fire and brimstone.

Maybe its just a place where non-believers will be gathered and they can entertain each other without any trace of God in sight. It would be a place where only humans who do not know, do not acknowledge, and do not even ponder such a thing inhabit together.

That's hell. It doesn't sound all that bad, does it? But wait til you get there.

Answer 3

I don't believe in it at all. God is unconditionally all-loving and does not condemn us. That's what we do to each other. The only hell there is is separation from God, which is simply a state of mind. Not eternal ever-lasting torture in some physical place within the pit of the earth.

Answer 4

The answer to your main question is simple: because God said so in His Word, and He would know better than we.

However, your secondary question has been well-answered by many in this forum already, so why ask again? God, being the creator of moral law has a variety of rewards and penalties for obedience and disobedience respectively. I love my children, but I punish and discipline them consistent with our family's own moral law. I never stop loving them. What kind of parent would I be if I never punished them.

This is the goofy state toward which our society's evolving: all punishment is bad, and the ultimate punishment is ultimately bad. Self-destructive reasoning if you ask me.

Answer 5

Swedenborg states "a perception of the sphere of falsity from evil that flows forth from hell has often been granted me. It was like a perpetual effort to destroy all that is good and true, combined with anger and a kind of fury at not being able to do so, especially an effort to annihilate and destroy the Divine of the Lord, and this because all good and truth are from Him. But out of heaven a sphere of truth and good was perceived, whereby the fury of the effort ascending from hell was restrained. The result of this was an equilibrium. This sphere from heaven was perceived to come from the Lord alone, although it appeared to come from the angels in heaven. It is from the Lord alone, and not from the angels, because every angel in heaven acknowledges that nothing of good and truth is from himself, but all is from the Lord" (Heaven and Hell n. 538).

Answer 6

Because I believe every word of the bible is the word of God,and every word in it is true. And the bible plainly speaks of a place called hell,and says that anyone who is not born again will go to hell,and the only way to escape hell is to repent of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.

Answer 7

interesting, this is a topic many feel strongly about but no one is truly comfortable with what they believe. Everything we know about this world tells us that if God exists, and he is as the Bible says, there must be a hell. 'a loving God would never do this' philosophy feels nicest but does not jive with how anything we see in this world or in the Bible. What hell is like exactly one can take some liberty in how exactly you interpret the few passages on it in the bible. but if God exists so does hell

Answer 8

I don't. I think Hell is a human made concept.

I believe we create our own hell. And the only person who can free you from your hell, is your self.

Your need to accept what ever the situation is and surrender it, let it go. Then and only then when you be free of you hell here on earth.

Answer 9

I do not. I read that Hell or sheol is the common grave of mankind. English word "hell" comes from the Teutonic "hel", which originally meant "to cover

Answer 10

Hell, Michigan.