Were is heaven, and were is hell?

Question

Explain why you think so. Who said that?

Answer 1

Well, heaven is not "out there" somewhere, remote in space. It is not some spatial location which can be pinpointed on some other planet in some distant galaxy in the great reaches of space. Heaven is within. Heaven is this new dimension which is as present on earth as it is anywhere else. "The kingdom of heaven," Jesus said, "is within you," Luke 17:21). It will help us to understand this if we look at what he says about the pattern, for the tabernacle was a pattern of this.

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by Ray C. Stedman
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Hell is often pictured as a fiery furnace where people are dragging around in chains, being continually burned and never being able to do anything about it. The Bible does use some symbols of hell that reflect that idea, but hell is really exclusion from the presence of the Lord. God is the source of everything that is good -- beauty and truth, life and love, joy, peace, grace, strength, forgiveness. All those things come only from God, and if a man won't have them, then God finally says to him, "I've been trying my best to get you to take these, but if you won't have them, then you must have your own way." And they are shut out from the presence of the Lord.

And if they're shut away from the source of all goodness, then what's left? The opposite -- darkness and death That is what they had been dishing out, and that is what they will finally obtain. God will let them have their own way, and when they get it, it will be the last thing they want.

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Answer 2

There is no physical evidence of it existence except in your state of mind. Heaven is when you are in the present moment of joy and tranquility and hell is when in the moment or place you dread to be. All the negative aspects you are experiencing in your life that you wish to get out of is consdered your own hell and time seems to be too long until you are able conquer all your fears and sorrows. Heaven on the other hand is when you find peace within yourself that makes you unafraid to face the challenges set before you and moving forward to achieve your goal and accepting reality about the things you cannot reach with extended arms to help those you believe who can.
Let us focus ourselves on the reality of life said in
Ecclesiastes 9:5 "
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have part in anything that happens under the sun."
I may not totally agree with this verse for I know that our physical body returns to the dust where it came from and our souls may go back to the source where it also originated from to become an integral part of the continuing cycle of life. Yet I like to use that verse for us to experience our own personal hell and heaven while still living because it is not after all that the end that we should look forward to but every step we travel along the journey that must count. And I said that.

Answer 3

Ephesians 4:9 states that hell is in the center of the Earth. Heaven is more contraversial.

Answer 4

The visible heaven is the physical universe consisting of the moon, stars and the planets. The invisible heaven is where our Creator resides. We cannot imagine how vast his heavenly home is, considering how great our visible universe really is.
At Isaiah 66:1 it says--"Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool."

The Bible hell is where all people go when they die. It is the common grave.
How do we know that hell is the grave? Well, we can read many verses in God's Word that assures us of that fact. Here are but a few:
Prov 15:24--"The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath." (wise and unwise persons go to the Bible hell)
Psalm 139:8--"If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there." (If hell is a fiery,hot place of torture, would David think God (Psalms 83:18) would be there ?)
Amos 9:2--"Though they dig into hell, From there My hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down." ( Can you dig into fire? No, but you can dig into the earth and God can find you no matter where you try to hide.)
Jonah 2:2--"And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice." ( The belly of the fish would have been Jonah's grave, if God had not rescued him.)
Ecclesiates 3:19,20--"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
( Humans and animals go to the same place when they die)
Revelation 1:18--"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." (Why would Jesus need keys to hell? Because the dead do not have to stay in hell forever; they can be resurrected back to life.)
Revelation 20:13-14--"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." (Hell delivers up the dead, meaning a resurrection from the grave), and what happens to death & hell? They are thrown into the lake of fire, meaning total destruction.
God is love and tortures no one.
The price we pay for being born imperfect sinners is that we all die, but as seen above, our enemy death will soon be no more. --"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 21:4

Answer 5

Heaven is place we can live eyternally with our Father in heaven but we must confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, their is a hell and it is for people that do not beleive is Jesus Christ and that nothing comes before or after him.
We cannot have eternal life in heaven without God;s forgiveness.
For god so loved the world that he gave his only begotton son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have ever lasting life.

Answer 6

Out there some where. Not sure where for sure. I have heard Heaven is up and hell is down ... but do I believe either? Not sure. I just hope to go where ever God and Jesus are.

Answer 7

Heaven does exist, but nobody knows where it is.

Hell is the ground. When we die, everybody goes to hell, because our soul goes into the ground and we return to the dust. Genesis 3:19 "In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you will return."

Also, the dead are conscious of nothing. Ecclesiastes 9:5 states: "For the living are conscious that they will die, but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all". When we die, we feel nothing. It's like a sleep, with no dreams.

I believe all of these things, because I am a Jehovah's Witness and I believe in the bible. All notions that Jehovah's witnesses believe are taken from the bible.

Answer 8

Heaven is where God and His angels are. Hell is where Satan and his angels are. I know this because the bible clearly states that God is in heaven and that He banished Satan and sent him to hell. I can't say geographically where either are located because they don't exist in the earthly realm, only in the spiritual realm. You will only know exactly where heaven is when you die, unless that's when you'll find out where hell is.

Answer 9

heaven and hell is only in our minds. no where else.

when u die, ur body decay and become one with earth again. our souls become nothingness because all it really is is a part of our brain that determines right from wrong. our brain will dry out and vanish like our body when we die.

so only you can decided whether you go to hell or heaven by your own actions. and how you judge yourself, how you live, and how you die. and the worst part is, you can never lie to yourself.

Answer 10

If you allow yourself to still your mind. You travel with your body of light and you are able to `see' heaven and hell. You really can `see'.....truly. Train yourself well and go to.....www.meditationthai.org. Only you can prove hell and heaven exists.