2006-09-09 10:26:33 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is the idea that we are separate from God.
We can't ever actually be separate but we can imagine that we are.
The fire and brimstone is just religious nonsense invented to try to scare people into following the wishes of the one making the threat.
God judges nothing and will never allow anyone to go to a place like hell.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-09 10:34:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell is fire and brimstone if you interpret the Bible literally. If you interpret it allegorically, the fire and brimstone is symbolic of the loss of joy due to seperation from God. Fundamentalists often say that Hell is both fire and brimstone, and eternal seperation from God.
2006-09-09 11:05:13 · answer #2 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fire and brimstone are only metaphors, the thing is being seperated from God which is good and going somewhere that is bad, you might as well be burning, when you cannot say, do, think, or have anything good for eternity it is like being on fire, because all people are born wanting to be good.
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2006-09-09 10:33:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is a place of total darkness, it's a place where sinners will go. If you don't except Christ as your savior some time in your life you will remain a sinner and be separated from God because God hates sin and cant' be around it.
2006-09-09 10:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both. Hell only lasts as long as it takes to burn out. Then it is over. Separation will be eternal because a sinner in hell once burned up ceases to exist in any form never to exist for all eternity.
2006-09-09 10:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hell is seperation from god the brimstone and fire is to scare you into not wanting to be there when you're young and just sort of sticks for the rest of your life.
2006-09-09 10:33:03 · answer #6 · answered by K C 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is probably not hellfire brimstone, because no one nows. No one has been there and come back and said that this is what Hell lokes like. It just sounds scary, so it is accepted.
2006-09-09 10:30:46 · answer #7 · answered by Clay_Hockeydude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're already separated from God till you settle for Jesus. Jesus is the the bridge to God, in case you do no longer settle for him, you're separated from God. Hell is the basically precise result for people who rebellion against God. "i'm no longer a Christian, in spite of the fact that the belief of a loving God does not look properly matched with the belief of eternal" God loves you very lots, and nonetheless he's keen to forgive the masses, he will circulate away no sin unpunished. that's what he has declared. 1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, would be STUBBLE: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall circulate away THEM NEITHER ROOT NOR branch." Jesus himself stated dry branches could be amassed up, and thrown right into a fire. while he stated this, he replaced into speaking approximately his return. Branches that don't undergo fruit, would be thrown right into a fire the place they are going to be burned. If it replaced into speaking approximately basically comprehensive separation from God, it may of stated sheol, that's what you're speaking approximately. Hades additionally skill "place of ineffective," Lake of hearth, is an truthfully place. i don't comprehend why it is so stressful to comprehend hell, you people prefer to p.c.. and decide. that may not precise.
2016-11-07 00:04:23 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both ideas are clumsy. The soul is said to be unable to burn, so fire is meaningless. God is said to be the "all in all" so seperation from God would mean non-existence. Just more ill conceived spiritual ideas.
2006-09-09 11:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm that's a good one. I think it's both, because in hell there is a TOTAL absence of God, unlike on earth. And also there are people on earth now who are seperated from God but it isn't as bad as hell. The demons and evil aren't exactly BOOM right there in your face.
2006-09-09 10:32:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋