how can someone burn forever in hell?

Question

if you're dead, how would you burn forever, if your body is deceased and it doesn't feel any pain?

Answer 1

No, there is no hell.

Answer 2

The spirit isn't a body yet can still suffer in Hell (or feel joy in Heaven). I don't know if Hell is literally a place of fire or whether this is just the way it's described to illustrate it's a terrible state of constant pain & anguish. Going to Heaven or Hell would be like having a dream that never ends. Either the sweetest dream ever or the worst nightmare. It's your mind/spirit that makes the journey, not your body, yet it's just as real in your dreams, right?

Answer 3

I think these answers are pretty typical ofthe kind of people who spend a lot of time thinking about this sort of question.

The idea that people are going to "burn in hell" for millions and millions of years -- no wait, that isnt long enough, it has to be FOREVER! -- would be a reflection of a god who was really hateful. I dont think God is hateful, but some of the people who tried to write books claiming to say tell what God said, those people were hateful. If anyone, they are the ones who are going to burn in hell!

Answer 4

This raises the question: Did Almighty God create such a place of torment? Well, what was God’s view when the Israelites, following the example of peoples who lived nearby, began to burn their children in fire? He explains in his Word: “They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.”—Jeremiah 7:31.

Think about this. If the idea of roasting people in fire had never come into God’s heart, does it seem reasonable that he created a fiery hell for those who do not serve him? The Bible says, “God is love.” (1 John 4:8) Would a loving God really torment people forever?

Webster’s Dictionary says that the English word “hell” is equal to the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades. In German Bibles Hoelle is the word used instead of “hell”; in Portuguese the word used is inferno, in Spanish infierno, and in French Enfer. The English translators of the Authorized Version, or King James Version, translated Sheol 31 times as “hell,” 31 times as “grave,” and 3 times as “pit.” The Catholic Douay Version translated Sheol 64 times as “hell.” In the Christian Greek Scriptures (commonly called the “New Testament”), the King James Version translated Hades as “hell” each of the 10 times it occurs.—Matthew 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27, 31; Revelation 1:18; 6:8; 20:13, 14.

In all the places where Sheol occurs in the Bible it is never associated with life, activity or torment. Rather, it is often linked with death and inactivity. For example, think about Ecclesiastes 9:10, which reads: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [grave, King James Version; hell, Douay Version], the place to which you are going.” So the answer becomes very clear. Sheol and Hades refer not to a place of torment but to the common grave of mankind. (Psalm 139:8) Good people as well as bad people go to the Bible hell.

Answer 5

The "burning pain" of hell, assuming hell exists, wouldn't be, I'd say, caused by fire but rather by the sense of endless loss.
However, I don't think God, assuming God exists, sends anyone to hell. I think people choose to go there.
And before you scoff at that, consider how many people choose a hell on earth.

Answer 6

It's just a story, don't worry about the details. But I have always wondered: would a person who enjoyed being burned still go to hell if they were evil?

Answer 7

You would be neither alive or dead, being in an eternal state of pain and suffering. Luther ( Satan) has the power to make you, once again, feel pain.

Answer 8

Because it's supposedly your soul that burns in hell, and it's not only "physical" pain you suffer, but emotional torment as well. I think it's all just rubbish anyway, honestly.

Answer 9

If you believe in the Bible read Eccl 9:5 “ The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all”.

Answer 10

it is not so much the body that will burn but the soul. But if your soul has no mass, or shape how will you feel anything?

Answer 11

Don't worry .. revenge is a human feeling. Im sure if their is a god that it wouldn't want to hurt anyone. It is just a human myth to scare people in to going to church ect... Nothing to worry about!