Some feel that Hell is right here and right now, as is Heaven...Who here has been to Hell? In what sense have you been to Hell? And have you found Heaven yet? Peace.
Examples of Hell...
WAR
Addictions of any kind
Rape
Sexual Assault
Poverty
Domestic Violence
Sexism, Racism, Ageism
Childhood Sexual Assault
Mental Illness
Incarceration
Persecution such as Homophobia
2006-09-23 05:15:34 · 23 answers · asked by -Tequila17 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is our heaven and hell. People must learn to be kinder in this life now, and we won't need a heaven, we'll already be there..
2006-09-26 22:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by Game Guy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have been through some of the things you mentioned. Also have been through Hell. And have returned. Prayer got me out//
You have to pass the Night, cross the desert, fight the sea to get to the other side, where He meets you. Christ saves, heals and then comes...Whether people believe me or not (heck Christians won't believe me), I know from experience. It is a horrible thing to go through, you will need pitbull faith.;;// Now it is almost daybreak, I know I am almost Home (have not seen heaven yet, I know it is where I am heading) It takes a lot of prayer and unchaining of the heart/ you actually feel the chains come loose.. You do get to be a true believer though...
In every story people needed to cross the sea, the river, the desert.. The night will come, the world will try to come between you and Him, they will build a wall.. you are gonna pass the night only with pitbullfaith, really believing God loves you and do not let the demons get to you..know it is not people you are fighting....do not let them throw guilt on you//Pray on. It is heavier than you can imagine and I really do not wish it on anyone..
Love
2006-09-23 14:37:51 · answer #2 · answered by Paradise Regained 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I understand the concept of Hell is a place where anything as a bad as what's in your list occurs, but never stops occuring. I don't believe in Hell though.
I can't say I've been to Hell in that sense. Have I been through bad experiences? Yes... I can't speak to the things where people are vicitims of others, but my own self-made bad situations, after getting through them, have taught me much and made me a stronger person, and more deeply aware...paradoxically, I have found happiness in my awareness and deeper understanding of life after I go through bad times.
I've actually told my "god", if he/she intervenes on occasion, that I accept the bad times that I need to become a more understanding, appreciative person who is more immediately aware of life. I don't go looking for them...but I believe in the power of adaptation and the depth of the human being.
Since I believe in a "God", I don't believe I'm ever going to go through something that I can't get through...that there is a safety valve that prevents things from being too much...In a way, I think it's important to believe this, because it changes the perspective of suicide...which I must believe is most often an escape from the urge and instinct to live.
I wish no bad things on anyone...and do not pretend to understand things I have not been through...I wish the best for anyone who has had or has gone through a bad experience. And I am humbled by those that have had worse than I.
2006-09-23 12:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by cascadingblue 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peace to you and a sweet year!
I can't say that I've visited hell in any sense that I can remember. I do feel like I have had a taste or two of heaven. The one that stands out in my mind was when visiting a 'hippie church' in 1969. As I joined in the spontaneous worship I began to wonder if I was in heaven or not.
2006-09-23 12:57:41 · answer #4 · answered by 4thwatch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, through Fear.
Yes, I have come out of it.
Hell can Rise up to Meet you if you keep on sinning and opening the Door.
I opened the Door to Hell to rise up and meet me when I kept on Drinking Alcohol and I did some other things Innocently too:
Played with Weegee Board ONCE.
Went Ghost Hunting for fun.
You can open up doors unknowingly in this world if you don't have the Knowledge of what you are doing.
Yes, I got Saved and got Delivered from all of this too.
Praise YOU JESUS!
Thanks.
2006-09-23 12:22:40 · answer #5 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THERE IS NO HEAVEN OR HELL. I GUARENTEE YOU. We are all (including bacterias and viruses) bio-chemical units and once terminated, there is no seperate existance of us as an entity, but our molecules are seperated and take the form of other things living or non-living with some other particles in this universe.
(Bihar of India is hell and FIFTY MILLION people have run away from that hell to Maharashtra and Gujarat and now they creating hell here.)
2006-09-23 12:28:53 · answer #6 · answered by Pirate of the Bassein Creek 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell is separation from God. You have to CHOOSE Hell, because the Lord has provided you with everything you need to avoid being separated from Him
Matthew 10:32
“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
2006-09-23 12:21:43 · answer #7 · answered by SETFREEBYJESUS 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've been to Hell. It's called junior high and you can find a lot of those above-listed examples taking place to some degree in every one. YECH! We all went from sweet, naive, grade-schoolers to hormone-crazed, zit-ridden, clique-driven, psychopaths. I think people should undergo PTSD treatment after several years in junior high. Ooh Lawdy, the demons be comin' back........................
2006-09-23 16:17:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell is the 2nd death. The wages of sin is death- not eternal life in hell ..... Jesus experienced Hell ( death) for us . Only the son of God has been to Hell .
The doctrine of eternal Hellfire comes from Greek mythology ____ danny U.S.A.
2006-09-23 12:25:04 · answer #9 · answered by discoverdaniel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
End stage heart and kidney failure caused by malignant hypertension, if hell is here that seemed pretty close to me especially when they told me to kiss my 5 year old goodbye because I had no chance.
Heaven? Recovery, here and now 10 years later.
2006-09-23 12:19:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋