...is it just me or does this sound a wee bit like Earth?
2006-09-23 14:39:40 · 13 answers · asked by WhyAskWhy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There was a minster I was watching on tv one night and his services used to be on TV. One night he was sitting at home and passed by a feed the children channel and said that he asked God how these people could go through this on earth and then go to hell because they arent christians. And he said that God spoke to him and if i remember right he was told that this is hell and that everyone will be forgiven when to they go to heaven and be able to enter into heaven!
2006-09-23 14:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by pingme03 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The reason this sounds like earth is because when Jesus sat down on the right hand of God in heaven, he threw Satan and all the demons down to the earth. Revelations says, "Woe to the earth and to the sea for the devil has come down to you having great anger knowing he has only a short period of time." (paraphrased, but you get the idea.) Hell as a place that Satan rules over and human souls are burned and tormented forever and ever is a human teaching and IS NOT BIBLICAL. "The wages of sin is death" and Adam was told if he ate of the forbidden fruit, he would DIE, not FRY.
2006-09-24 00:21:56 · answer #2 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by eternal fire, they are no longer burning. Hell is not eternal, it lasts untill the fire has completely run its course and devoured completely all the wicked.
Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
after the second resurrection, God will destroy the wicked on earth, after judging them. The wicked will realise their wicked ways and bow the knee to Jesus and say just and true are thy ways O lord.
God bless!!
2006-09-23 22:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by Sky_blue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds a lot like earth, however I am sure the absence of God altogether would be decidedly more pronounced. At least on earth you can talk to Him and Feel His presence. And compared to many, my suffering is a cakewalk. I am not sure I would wish for anymore suffering than I already deal with day to day though.
2006-09-23 21:43:47 · answer #4 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Look at it this way. There are good things that happen, aren't there? A child is cured of cancer, or even just that you survived a day at work without getting yelled at. In Hell, absolutely NOTHING good would EVER happen. Plus....everything that we believe is "bad" or "terrible" right now will pale in comparison to the suffering, anguish, and pain down in Hell.
2006-09-23 22:04:21 · answer #5 · answered by mobob 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL. Well some believe that Earth is the lowest in hell you can go. The dead are the spiritual dead, etc. EVen those who assert that there is separation from God when God is All are mistaken. Then again there are those who assert that God is an empty abstraction.
2006-09-23 21:41:58 · answer #6 · answered by pc93 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
9. Will the fire eventually go out?
"Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it." Isaiah 47:14. "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth." "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Revelation 21:1, 4. God will recreate a new world where no trace of the former evils of this world will be seen.
Answer: Yes, indeed, the Bible specifically teaches that hellfire will go out and that there will not be left "a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it." The Bible also teaches that in God's new kingdom all "former things" will be passed away. Hell, being one of the former things, is included, so we have God's promise that it will be abolished.
Is God a Torturer?
If God tortured His enemies in a fiery horror chamber throughout eternity, He would be more vicious and heartless than men have ever been in the worst of war atrocities. An eternal hell of torment would be hell for God also, who loves even the vilest sinner.
10. What will be left when the fire goes out?
The fires will burn until only ashes are left. Even the bones will be completely gone.
"For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." "And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts." Malachi 4:1, 3.
Answer: Notice the verse does not say the wicked will burn like asbestos, as many today believe, but rather like stubble, which will be burned up. The little word "up" denotes completion. Nothing but ashes will be left when the fire goes out. In Psalms 37:10, 20, the Bible says the wicked will go up in smoke and be completely destroyed.
11. Will the wicked enter hell in bodily form and be destroyed both soul and body?
The fire from heaven will fall upon the wicked and destroy them, both body and soul.
"It is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." Matthew 5:30. "Rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Ezekiel 18:20.
Answer: Yes. Real, live people enter hell in bodily form and are destroyed both soul and body. The fire from God out of heaven will fall upon real people and blot them out of existence.
2006-09-23 22:06:07 · answer #7 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good point. A family in the US middle class is a rarity. Look at all the awful suffering and poverty and exploitation all over the world. Look at the awful abuse of children in some countries, raping children and putting pictures on the internet, murder, torture, beheading, maybe we are in hell. Hang in there.
2006-09-23 21:42:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If your life is constant suffering, you have my condolences.
Mine is not the greatest, but I do have the odd moment of pleasure. And I beleive that most people here on Earth, even the most pitiable and miserable have -some- tiny bit of happiness.
As for God's absence. No, I have never personally felt his presence, but it has never pained me not to.
2006-09-23 21:44:14 · answer #9 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's nothing like earth. Here we have food, Air conditioning, Ice Cream, cold drinks, we can pray to God, talk to Him, God lives inside of us here on earth, he wont be inside of the people in hell.
2006-09-23 21:44:24 · answer #10 · answered by creeklops 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋