According to religious beliefs, can anyone one tell me what's between heaven and hell?

Question

I know that good people who are religious go to heaven. According to religious beliefs, is there anything between heaven and hell in the afterlife? If not, explain why.

Answer 1

Earth. Earth is a combo of heaven and Hell. It IS puratory. A classroom where you're always being tested before you move on ... and up, or on ... and down.

Answer 2

In christian beliefs there is a place called purgatory, and it is a place where you can basically work off your sins. Say you were a really good person, very christian, always went to church, etc, but just before you died you committed a sin, which you weren't able to confess before you died, instead of going straight to hell, you would go to purgatory to work off the sin and then go to heaven. Purgatory is not in the bible but was invented later to solve those sorts of problems. The most well-known account of purgatory occurs in Dante's poems (A series of 3 long poems, hell, purgatory, and heaven) In Dante's poems, purgatory is seen as a mountain which you must walk up in a spiral around the mountain until you are worthy to go to heaven. There are other beliefs relating to purgatory (Which is sometimes called limbo) such as the thai belief that every grain of rice left on your plate after a meal "buys" you a year in purgatory, before you can go to heaven. Geographically speaking mount purgatory is between heaven and hell. If you are interested in purgatory, I strongly reccommend reading Dante's works, called the Divine Comedies (in the old meaning of the word, they're not comedies like something that makes you laugh, it sort of just means a story). To be honest that's the only religion with a concept of heaven and hell that I know the details of. I'm not sure about Jewish or Muslim beliefs, and the other religions I know about don't have heaven and hell, sorry about that. I hope this is useful

Answer 3

No, there is nothing between heaven and hell in the afterlife. As for why-because there is not.

As to why I believe this, the Bible does not allow for such a place. When you study the Bible and see where people go after death, they either go to heaven (Paradise as in Luke 23:24; Abraham's bosom as in Luke 16:22, etc) or to hell. There is no mention of an in between holding place.

Some religions hold to such a belief, but I do not.

Answer 4

In the Hebrew concept of Sheol there were many levels of the afterlife. Those on the higher levels were more similar to our understanding of heaven. St. Paul uses this concept when he refers to a vision of the 3rd heaven (2 Cor), and the familiar term we use of the "seventh heaven".

Theologically speaking heaven and hell are not actual geographic locations. There is no place in the universe where heaven or hell exists. More correctly, they are states of being, and a reflection of our condition before God.

For example: Imagine God's perfect love revealed as a consuming fire. The Seraphims (flaming ones) surround the throne of God. God does not deny his love to anyone - when you die there is God's love. Those with a clean soul can enter the present of God and feel comfortable. Those with unprepared souls seek to hide from God's love, but no place is far enough.. That is what heaven and hell are like.

Answer 5

Nothing!
Why do people not understand the Bible? We're all going to be in the grave(hell).

Actually when people die; they're asleep in the grave. Death is called a sleep (Matt.9:24; John 11:11; 1Cor.15:51; 1Thess.5:10).
The spirit goes back to God that gave it!(Eccles.12:7; Psalm 146:4)


The Bible describes three hells.

SHEOL OR HADES, THE FIRST HELL
The first term in Greek and Hebrew means the grave. It's the grave where the dead await the resurrection.
GENESIS 37:35---I SHALL GO DOWN INTO THE GRAVE.
PROVERBS 15:11--HELL & DESTRUCTION ARE BEFORE THE LORD.
ECCLES.9:10---NO WORK...OR KNOWLEDGE...IN THE GRAVE,
MATT.11:23---WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HADES
1COR.15:55---O HADES, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY

GEHENNA, THE SECOND HELL
The second term in New Testament means the place of fiery destruction of the wicked.
MATT.5:22--...BE IN DANGER OF HELL FIRE
MATT.10:28--TO DESTROY BOTH BODY AND SOUL IN HELL

TARTAROO, THE THIRD HELL
This third term is only used once and refers to the place of restraint where the demon spirits were placed following the rebellion against God.
2PETER 2:4---BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL.

THE THREE HEAVENS
There's 3 heavens.

First Heaven = This is also called the firmament or expanse of heaven. It is the heaven where the birds fly and where the clouds give rain. (Gen.1:26; 2:20; 8:2 & 1Kings 18:45)

Second Heaven = This refers to outerspace where the sun, moon and stars can be found. (Gen.22:17 & Exodus 32:13 & Joshua 10:13)

Third Heaven = The Apostle Paul tells us that the heaven of God's abode is the "third heaven." In the Old Testament this is often designated by the phrase "the heaven of heavens." (Joshua 2:11 & Psalms 11:4 & 2Corinthians 12:2 equated with v.4 = paradise)

THERE ARE TWO KINGDOMS: ONE ON EARTH AND THE OTHER ONE COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN.

The 1st Kingdom of Heaven =
DAN.7:27 = "AND THE KINGDOM AND DOMINION, AND THE GREATNESS OF THE KINGDOM UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN, SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH, WHOSE KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, AND ALL DOMINION SHALL SERVE AND OBEY HIM."
REV.5:10 = "AND HAST MADE US UNTO OUR GOD KINGS AND PRIESTS: AND WE SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH."

The 2nd kingdom of Heaven =
AFTER 1,000 YEARS = A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH-HOLY CITY COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN = REV.21:1-4; ISAIAH 65:17-25; 66:1,22 AND ETC.

SO HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO---
ISAIAH 66:21; ZECH.14:9-11 = "BUILD HOUSES, PLANT VINEYARDS, EAT VINEYARDS"
ISAIAH 66:23; ZECH.14:16-19 = "WORSHIP FROM ONE NEW MOON TO ANOTHER AS ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER"
JESUS WILL BE GIVING CITIES TO THE SAINTS INWHICH THEY WILL BE TEACHING OTHERS THE TRUE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE = MATT.25:14-23; EZEKIEL 36:10,33; LUKE 13:26; ISAIAH 61:4
WE WON'T MARRY OR BE GIVEN UNTO MARRIAGE = MATT.22:30
BOYS AND GIRLS WILL BE PLAYING IN THE STREETS = ZECHARIAH 8:4-5,8
MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH = PSALM 37:9-11; MATT.5:5; REV.5:10

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Answer 6

The only thing between heaven and hell is here on earth, in this life.... in the afterlife you go to one extreme or the other.

Answer 7

There are six realms of existence generally.
1. Heavens
2. Demons
3. Humans
4. Animals
5. Ghosts
6. Hells
So.. between heaven and hell there are the other four realms.

Answer 8

In the immediate 'afterlife' there was, before Christ, a gulf placed between good and wicked.
I might be wrong, but I believe that is now not as divisive as prior to Jesus Christ, as believers are now permitted to mingle amongst the heathen to continue to lead them into the virtues of the good life and its standards, and to teach them the Gospel of Christ - particularly to those that had never even heard of Him in this life.

If you are referring to the 'final' analysis of "Afterlife" - that is, after the Physical resurrection of the body from the grave [or ground] and the Judgment Day, wherein all acts, words and thoughts of history are all made known and judged and all is taken into account, there are a number of 'Kingdoms' or consignments: As Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many mansions".

There appear, however, to be 4 main, Overall consignments of glory or Kingdom: the apostle Paul spoke of bodies celestial, bodies terrestrial and bodies telestial.
One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars.
The 4th group are not even worthy of any degree of 'glory', and are, therefore, consigned to Outer Darkness to abide with Satan and His cronies Forever!
Pity them!
Their lot is unspeakable!!

Answer 9

you can consider earth as a place in between of heaven and hell where you have sorrows as well as happiness. hell represents pain and heaven represents happiness and there is nothing in between of heaven and hell afterlife. it's earth which is in between.

Answer 10

Philosophially speaking, there is nothing between heaven and hell, since one is the privation or imperfetion of the other: hell, being "evil", is the imperfetion of heaven, whih is "good", and vice versa.