2006-09-21 15:33:03 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dante's Inferno has your answer:
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/inferno/
2006-09-21 15:36:01 · answer #1 · answered by MB_Bailey 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hell is not what most people think it is. I've read all the other answers and I think it's time you got a serious one.
Hell is a state of mind, mostly. The hell an heaven spoken about in the buble don't actually exist in the way that people think they do. They "are" real places, but no one is there yet.
All those that have died are in a place more like pergatory. No one will be admitted into the ultimate heaven or hell that is alluded to in the scriptures untill after the one thousdand year kinkdom of peace prophesied by Christ and other prophets.
The place where a person will go when they pass from this life is determined by how they lived, and what spirits they serve in this one. For example:
If a person is addicted to alcohol,drugs, food, sex, or whatever, when they die, the cravings for these things are still as strong, but they no longer have a physical vessel, (a body), to indulge in these cravings. In this purgatory realm you go to you will be tempted and tormented by these cravings with no way to satisfy them. That certainly qualifies as hell, wouldn't you think.
On the other hand, if you can live your life here on this plain of existance peacefully, and learn to ignore the offerings of this world to indulge in anything and everything offered, you have will have the opposite reward. You will enter eternity free of guilt, doubt, hatred, corruption, pettiness, or any negitive emotions or scars, and therefore be at peace and in a serene state of being. This is why it is called heaven. It is a place where there are no worries, problems or any negitivity. It is also a place where you will have access to the knowledge of the entire universe. No question will go unanswered. It is our nature, however, to be just the opposite and that is why it is such a struggle for us in our daily lives to both do and be good to ourselves and others.
Becoming Godlike is the quest we inherit when we are born. We decide by every action or lack of action we take in this life what reward we will inherit. A peaceful place, or one of tourment.
2006-09-21 16:18:38 · answer #2 · answered by janet g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The correct term is grave. The New Testament describes the grave like a pit full of garbage. To be distanced from God is the torment.In the old days garbage was burned. Burned items usually are reduced to the basic element of carbon. Mans imagination has distorted the Biblical truths.
2006-09-21 15:41:28 · answer #3 · answered by timex846 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having the pain of childbirth/migraine/broken bones while taking an unending Algebra pop quiz with "small world" sung by Barry Manilow on an endless loop in the background while you have a hangover that makes you cramp when you breathe
2006-09-21 15:40:26 · answer #4 · answered by Buffy Summers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most horrible utter blackness yet burning, unending torture with no hope of release - ever!
Make sure you make the wise decisions necessary to keep yourself from going there!
John 3:16 God loved the earth so much He sent His son. Whoever believes in Him will not die [or go to hell] but will experience everlasting life.
2006-09-21 15:37:43 · answer #5 · answered by LL 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
depends more on your beliefs, following the traditional bible, it's supposed to be a place of fire and brimstone. Personal beleifs, are that where we are in society today is a pretty good place that would substitute for hell.
2006-09-21 15:38:39 · answer #6 · answered by thugtwin1@sbcglobal.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is the hots place you will ever go if you deside to go there but I know I aint going! its very hot, miserable, you get tormented for eterinty, misery beyond imagination, but forever on fire burning!! and if you really didnt like someone here on earth satan will put you right beside them!! but its just beyond your wildest dreams the hots place you will ever go!! and you dont really want to be there? and are you saved and go to church some where? im just wondering? i dont ask many people questions like that lol but i just wanted to know? cause if not u need to find u a good christain church that will teach you about the Holy Bible and about God and Jesus Christ!!
2006-09-21 15:49:16 · answer #7 · answered by beautiful_angels16 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you're in antarctica, you might say hell is like an enless sea of freezing waters. it depends on how humans invent it...
there was also crazy xtian woman wo said in her bestelling book: hell is in the shape of a human. it also has a heart. and some places is cold and uncomfortable... i say brainwashing.
2006-09-21 15:46:50 · answer #8 · answered by lnfrared Loaf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is a horrible place. It's a place of pain and suffering, and torment. Matthew 8:12 says it will be a place of darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Revelation 19:20 calls Hell a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Revelation 21:8 says that the fearful, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, whoremongers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will be there and it will be called the second death. Hell will be a place filled with weeping and wailing and pain and suffering. It's literally a lake of fire where whoever goes there will burn forever and ever and ever with an unquenchable fire. The pain will never stop, it will never end, there will never be any relief, and it will never be peaceful or quiet. It will be filled with screams and cries and people will be in so much torture that they will literally gnash their teeth and bite each other. It's a place you never want to visit, and you don't have to as long as you accept Jesus as your personal savior and ask Him to save you from your sins. Jesus died for you so that you won't have to go to Hell. He paid the price for your sins so that you could live forever. Romans 6:23 says "the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Jesus paid the wage for our sin, which is death. He died for us so that we would not have to die. Now all you have to do is believe in Him and you will never have to face Hell. John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." All you have to do is believe and call upon Jesus. Romans 10:13 says "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:9,10 says "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Don't wait, my friend. Call upon the Lord today and let Him save you. You don't want to go to Hell. Let Jesus take you to Heaven. He loves you and He wants to take you with Him. Good luck, and God bless you.
2006-09-21 17:44:02 · answer #9 · answered by k-net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be a hell of a good time.
This is exactly what and where Hell is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=55275
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/06/06/publiceye/entry1686556.shtml
2006-09-25 06:30:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can buy whatever you want on your credit card, but it will never give you any satisfaction and you never get out of debt. Sounds like 21st Century America huh?
2006-09-21 15:36:50 · answer #11 · answered by changRdie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋