The Bible says that Hell lasts forever but then Revelations says that Hell will be destroyed someday.
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2006-10-19 19:31:31 · 20 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible nowhere that I know of says that hell is forever, but it does state that death and hell will be cast into the lake of fire where the torments are forever. If it exists as hell then, forever, as some isolated part of the lake of fire, or is swallowed up by the lake of fire and becomes one with the lake of fire; either way I wouldn't want to wish that on anyone! I guess that's one of the reasons why Christians try to share the gospel with the message of salvation so much...
2006-10-19 19:44:50 · answer #1 · answered by skypiercer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually what the Bible says is that Satan and his demons will be imprisoned for eternity. And in Revelation says there is a place prepaired for him. But that's for him.
For those poor people who are sent to hell, its more of a holding place (Rev 21) that will be emptied along with the seas so that all the dead are judged. So basically, if someone is sent to hell, there's a wait until final judgement, but then it gets better - after judgement is the second (permanent) death.
So hell for Satan is an eternity. Hell for poor souls is like a long wait at the airport then a permanent, merciful death.
2006-10-20 02:44:52 · answer #2 · answered by Reuben Shlomo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People combine certain scriptures from what I can gather. For instance, in Matthew 25:46 it says, "'Then they will go away to eternal punishment,'" which may only mean death. It also says in Matthew 25:41 that the wicked shall go into the "eternal fire," but maybe this is just meant to mean that the death is permanent. At any rate, it's ambiguous, and if God is really fair and just, would he really let anyone burn in agony forever? I think after a while, anyone would get the point.
2006-10-20 02:42:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell will last forever and so will heaven. In the end God will kill Satan, but still the people in hell won't go to heaven and will burn in the river of fire FOREVER.
2006-10-20 02:37:40 · answer #4 · answered by Panzer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No hell and heaven both are eternal. Hell will be in the cynter of the earth. At the evey evey end of time as we know it Heaven will desend on to earth and they will be as one.
2006-10-20 02:35:53 · answer #5 · answered by ldp999000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the end of the Great Tribulation, Satan and his followers will be cast into the abyss . At the end of the 1000 year reign on earth they will be allowed free one last time before being cast into the lake of fire ,,,,, yes ,,,,,,,for ,,,,,,,ETERNITY.
2006-10-20 02:37:38 · answer #6 · answered by ckrug 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell and Heaven is eternal. Our life on earth is temporary.
2006-10-20 02:37:06 · answer #7 · answered by jemmie_2004 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heaven and Hell
Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá regard the descriptions of Heaven and Hell given in some of the older religious writings as symbolic, like the Biblical story of the Creation, and not as literally true. According to Them, Heaven is the state of perfection, and Hell that of imperfection; Heaven is harmony with God’s will and with our fellows, and Hell is the want of such 191 harmony; Heaven is the condition of spiritual life, and Hell that of spiritual death. A man may be either in Heaven or in Hell while still in the body. The joys of Heaven are spiritual joys; and the pains of Hell consist in the deprivation of these joys.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:
When they [men] are delivered through the light of faith from the darkness of these vices, and become illuminated with the radiance of the sun of reality, and ennobled with all the virtues, they esteem this the greatest reward, and they know it to be the true paradise. In the same way they consider that the spiritual punishment … is to be subjected to the world of nature, to be veiled from God, to be brutal and ignorant, to fall into carnal lusts, to be absorbed in animal frailties, to be characterized with dark qualities … these are the greatest punishments and tortures. …
… The rewards of the other world are the perfections and the peace obtained in the spiritual worlds after leaving this world … the spiritual graces, the various spiritual gifts in the Kingdom of God, the gaining of the desires of the heart and the soul, and the meeting of God in the world of eternity. In the same way the punishments of the other world … consist in being deprived of the special divine blessings and the absolute bounties, and falling into the lowest degrees of existence. He who is deprived of these divine favours, although he continues after death, is considered as dead by the people of truth.
The wealth of the other world is nearness to God. Consequently it is certain that those who are near the Divine Court are allowed to intercede, and this intercession is approved by God. …
It is even possible that the condition of those who have died in sin and unbelief may become changed; that is to say, they may become the object of pardon through the bounty of God, not through His justice; for bounty if giving without desert, and justice is giving what is deserved. As we have the power to pray for these souls here, so likewise 192 we shall possess the same power in the other world, which is the Kingdom of God. … Therefore in that world also they can make progress. As here they can receive light by their supplications, there also they can plead for forgiveness, and receive light through entreaties and supplications.
Both before and after putting off this material form, there is progress in perfection, but not in state. … There is no other being higher than a perfect man. But man when he has reached this state can still make progress in perfections but not in state, because there is no state higher than that of a perfect man to which he can transfer himself. He only progresses in the state of humanity, for the human perfections are infinite. Thus however learned a man may be, we can imagine one more learned.
Hence, as the perfections of humanity are endless, man can also make progress in perfections after leaving this world.—Some Answered Questions, pp. 260, 261, 268, 269, 274.
2006-10-20 03:09:55 · answer #8 · answered by GypsyGr-ranny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell exists only as an experience for a soul believing that torment is deserved. so it can be forever, or not, depending on whether your soul overcomes or is helped to overcome whatever is driving it to seek punishment.
2006-10-20 02:34:35 · answer #9 · answered by grrluknow 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can we really accept as truth anything in a book that claims the Earth is only 6000 years old?
2006-10-20 02:47:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋