Christians: Is heaven truly heaven if your loved ones are in hell?

Question

Thanks Ned. That's one good question.

Answer 1

We're all planning a big reunion there. Hell 3000.

Answer 2

The answer to you question is a definate YES!!! Christians are "sinbearers" in that they're sufferings are offered up for those "loved ones" who offend God. God is infinately merciful and at the same time infinately just.

To answer your question, yes! Heaven means being in God's presence, not perceiving it the way you have put it. God is infinately Good and being in his presence gives such happiness to the soul of the faithful that everyone else is forgotten. When you are with the person who makes you happy do you remember those people who bring misery into your life? No, you relish in the presence of the person who makes you happy. This is what it is like in heaven being in the presence of God but infinately more joy. HELL is the absence of God's presence.

Answer 3

Oh yes! Here's why: once we are in Heaven we see things differently than here on earth. When a loved one goes to hell we are not glad, but rather we desire that only persons who have desired God be in Heaven. It will seem a pity that our loved ones are in Hell, but we are more horrified that they did not choose God and so we see the Divine Justice in things. We see and understand that they deserve eternal punishment. The way we think about relationships between mother/daughter/dad/cousin, etc. is different after death. After death we are all brothers and sisters in Christ or with the devil. We will only desire to see those in heaven who truly loved God.

Answer 4

Behold salvation is Individual. Joy in heaven will be through God. We will be just like the angels, ex we will not be given into marriage. God will wipe away our tears and there will be no more mourning, sin , and pain. I tell you this if you standing infront of the living god right now and faced with hell and heaven then you would realize why salvation is individual. God gave his son as a sacrifice for our sin and you think you will have an escuse when face to face with God. Think about this what if there is a God and an place called hell, where will you go, God is knocking at the door now so awake. Feel your heart beating, cant you see that a divine power is sustaining your life. your life is like grass it's short. if there is no god life would be worthless, tommorrow would be gloomy. I will prove to you that god is real. I want you to pray to god and say lord jesus i must know if you are real, please touch my heart and make me feel warm and then you will see. be sincere in speech. When you feel the hand of god you will have peace and clarity. Sometimes god shows himself through his goodness so you should be patient and wait for the visitation of jesus.

Answer 5

No it wouldn't, therefore when we do go to Heaven and if a loved one is in Hell their memory is swiped from our brains because it can't be Heaven when you are grieving about your loved ones in Hell. At least thats what I believe...it is a scary thought though.

Answer 6

God loves us. Jesus loves us. There is no need for marriage in heaven. We may not even recognize loved ones. I don't know. I'm not God and I have obviously never been to heaven. I know eternal life with God has to be better than eternal life in hell.

Answer 7

There's a way that looks straight and good in the eyes of a man and it leads to death, and there's another that leads to life. You chose whatever you want/believe in, doesn't matter if we related or not. If you are walking in rightousness, you are not doing it for anybody but yourself. You can't go to church for someone elses soul but you can pray for them.

Your visa or passport doesn't give anyone in your family a right to use it as their travelling documents, only you can use it. If you want to pee, you can't ask your brother to actually pee for you, would you? If you are hungry, you can't ask your dad to eat for you

Answer 8

I was just thinking that a week ago. I don't know. I sure would miss them deeply. If there is such a thing as missing them deeply in heaven. I have full faith that in God's right time He will bring them to Him. I have prayed on it.

Answer 9

When you die, you die, i.e., Jesus Christ died and went to Hell for 3 days and was resurrected, however he was DEAD and knew nothing, he was not burning in eternal fires. Christ Jesus also promised his followers a resurrection, and this is ALSO WHERE everyone who DIED BEFORE CHRIST is resting, waiting for their resurrections. Read below: For one thing, the scriptures speak of 4 hells, plus the “Lake of Fire” in Rev. 20:14.

NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE IS HELL DEFINED AS THE "ABSENCE OF GOD." Please!!

#1. Hades
#2. Gehenna
#3. Sheol
#4. Tartarus
#5. The Lake of Fire

#1 HADES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades

The unseen world, translated hell in A.V., Matt. 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27,31; Rev. 1:18; 6:8; 20:13,14. See Hell. Eventually, came to designate the abode of the dead.

#2 GEHENNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Gehenna' is a word tracing to Greek, ultimately from Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm (also Gei ben-Hinnom (Hebrew: גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom. The valley, which forms the southern border of ancient Jerusalem, is first mentioned in Joshua 15:8. Originally it referred to a garbage dump in a deep narrow valley right outside the walls of Jerusalem (in modern-day Israel) where fires were kept burning to consume the refuse and keep down the stench. It is also the location where bodies of executed criminals, or individuals denied a proper burial, would be dumped. Today, "Gehenna" is often used as a synonym for Hell.

#3. SHEOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol

Sheol (שאול) is the Hebrew language word denoting the "abode of the dead"; the "underworld", "the common grave of mankind" or "pit". It is also transliterated Sheh-ole, in Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries and Strong's Concordances. In the Hebrew Bible it is portrayed as a comfortless place beneath the earth, beyond gates, where both the bad and the good, slave and king, pious and wicked must go after death to sleep in silence and oblivion in the dust. In some sources, for example in Deuteronomy 32:22, Sheol seems to be synonymous with the "depths of the earth". Sheol is sometimes compared to the gloomy, twilight afterlife of Hades or Tartarus from Greek mythology. Sheol is the common destination of both the righteous and the unrighteous dead; the righteous Job sees it as his destination (Job 3). In the Book of Job, while Satan is portrayed as tormenting and testing the living, he does not appear to have any particular presidency over Sheol, or to dwell in Sheol.

#4 TARTARUS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus

Christianity's Tartarus: In the Bible, 2 Peter 2:4, Tartarus is designated as a section of Hades that the fallen angels who had produced the Nephilim of Genesis 6 were cast into to await judgment by God. It does not figure promeninently into the doctrines of Christianity; many translations of the Bible insert Hell in the place of Tartarus. No other specific use of the word Tartarus is in the Bible, however, Jude 6 describes the abode of the same fallen angels mentioned in 2 Peter as 'total darkness'.

#5 THE LAKE OF FIRE (which means the 2nd death, the lake of fire)

See (The Book of Revelation 20:14) and also Acts Ch. 5, the story of Ananias & Sapphira sinning against the Holy Spirit.

Here we see in The Book of Revelation Ch. 20:14 where "Death & Hades" or both DEATH AND HELL are thrown into the Lake of Fire, THE 2ND DEATH, to be destroyed eternally it says HERE! So, we see that the Lake of Fire is Symbolic for ETERNAL DESTRUCTION. Much the same way Gehenna was for the destruction it caused! Nothing that goes in comes out. Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 are both eternally destroyed for sinning against the "holy ghost/spirit" for lying to it. So, much like before they were born, they are now, neither knowing anything nor suffering.

Answer 10

I suspect they would be truly unlovable if they were headed for hell. Read "The Great Divorce" it addresses this question very eloquently.