so much has been talked about, but who has the authority to tell what's heaven and hell like? Has anyone been there and come back alive to tell us? What makes heaven a more superior place to be then hell? If everyone in heaven is so happy that would make the happiness meaningless because you don't have the contrast of agony. and if there are nothing but sufferings in hell, the sufferings would also be meaningless because everyone else in hell would be suffering as much as you do, and thats no contrast of happiness. I am confused....
2006-10-11 23:17:53 · 16 answers · asked by coffee 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus spoke many times, actually warning us, of Hell.
Since Jesus is the Son of the Creator I will pay attention.
Go study the New Testament, you won't be so confused then.
Go read what happened to the people that repelled against Gond Moses in the Old Testament. ( That should answer your question)
2006-10-11 23:31:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all there is no burning hell. Hell is a term for the grave. Remember Job wanted to go to hell? Did he want to be burning and suffering, when he was already full of painful boils? No. God is love, we would not create a literal place as such. Hell-fire is a false teaching because it supports that a person keeps on living when he dies. This would then reject the meaning and importance of Jesus and the resurrection Scarface Christians have as the basis for our hope to live forever in paradise.
The bible says the dead are conscious of nothing. Even Mary expected to see Lazarus during the resurrection. The bible mentions a resurrection of the righteousness and unrighteous.
Heaven is a place were angels and other spirit creatures live. Does not mean a place of bliss. More careful look at the bible also clearly shows that God has bought anointed Christians out of the earth. It is only a selected few that God has approved to be with Jesus in heaven.
2006-10-12 06:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by fire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're overthinking this.
Heaven = Good. How do we know this. Well, because it's described as a paradice. That isn't to say that the happiness you experience in heaven would get dull, maybe they chop and change the activities :) Or maybe earthly concepts of happiness and satisfaction are left at the door. Like you said, we don't really know.
Hell = Bad. It's described as being a feiry inferno of limitless torment. Not exactly the sort of place you'd want to spend an eternity. Again, agony could become an inherent factor to existance in hell, maybe, in the absence of a corporeal form, the human soul in hell experiences an incomprehendable type of agony far removed from the banality of fire and pitchforks.
Damn it, now I'm overthinking it. Nice going man >:(
Well, whatever the reality of things (and I use the word loosely), it'll be a huge relief to find out when you finally kick the bucket.
2006-10-12 06:25:17 · answer #3 · answered by tekn33k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I refer you to Jesus' parable in Luke 16: 19-31
The Bible gives us little to go on in describing hell and Heaven, but hell is mentioned more often, and almost always in the context of a firey pit. As for which is preferable (hell or Heaven) would you rather sit on a bed of hot coals or on a satin cushion?
Possibly, the greatest agony of those in hell will be the knowledge that those in Heaven were right and are happy, and they (in hell) will never be happy again. Forever.
2006-10-12 06:29:45 · answer #4 · answered by Mad Roy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More importantly the origen of heaven and hell is the bible. So if you beleive in a heaven and hell you must beleive the bible. The worst part about hell is that's an eternaty without Christ. While in heaven we will be able to spend all our time with God.
2006-10-12 06:28:37 · answer #5 · answered by Snap 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I trully believe that Hell is a place that was made by God's left hand Lucifer who was a fallen angel and started a war in Heaven becasue he was jealous of us humans and was kicked out after losing that war. I believe that God keeps all that want to go to heaven go to Heaven. I trully believe hell is for those who trully want to go to hell.
2006-10-12 06:22:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There has been a man to go to heaven, his name is Don Piper. He wrote a book about it called 90 Minutes in Heaven, if you want to know what it is like read that book. It is a wonderful book.
2006-10-12 06:25:30 · answer #7 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their creator have the authority to say what they look like and who they are for. You cannot believe in heaven and hell without believing in Allah.
2006-10-12 06:19:35 · answer #8 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is only one who has gone into heaven and is qualified to testify....for Jesus said to Nicodemus, "I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven--the Son of Man."
2006-10-12 06:21:14 · answer #9 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In heaven, sin will have no more dominion over us. In hell, is where everyone slanders one another, tries to kill one another, tortured by demons, and there is no longer time to ask God for forgiveness, so it will be for eternity.
2006-10-12 06:23:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋