2006-10-27 02:15:10 · 21 answers · asked by Beavis 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
perhaps...perhaps not....
its not possible to say that it does not exist because there are a lot of things that we cant understand. (Think about rats in cages, cages which are not transparent, and which are born in the cage itself, to the rat the cage is its world, it would be very confused if after a few years it was taken out and let free in the wild.)...we are like rats in a cage.
2006-10-27 02:24:29 · answer #1 · answered by Yoda <^V^> 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. It is not the states of mind. these places really exists. Heaven and hell is real as God himself is.
Spiritual meaning. The place of the everlasting blessedness of the righteous; the abode of departed spirits.
(a) Christ calls it his “Father's house” (Joh_14:2).
(b) It is called “paradise” (Luk_23:43; 2Co_12:4; Rev_2:7).
(c) “The heavenly Jerusalem” (Gal_4:26; Heb_12:22; Rev_3:12).
(d) The “kingdom of heaven” (Mat_25:1; Jam_2:5).
(e) The “eternal kingdom” (2Pe_1:11).
(f) The “eternal inheritance” (1Pe_1:4; Heb_9:15).
(g) The “better country” (Heb_11:14, Heb_11:16).
(h) The blessed are said to “sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” and to be “in Abraham's bosom” (Luk_16:22; Mat_8:11); to “reign with Christ” (2Ti_2:12); and to enjoy “rest” (Heb_4:10, Heb_4:11).
2006-10-27 09:21:31 · answer #2 · answered by Tom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, our minds and bodies perish when we die. Heaven and Hell are the eternal state of existence for the soul.
The late Pope John Paul II gave three great talks on Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. You can read them at http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP2HEAVN.HTM
In three controversial Wednesday Audiences, Pope John Paul II pointed out that the essential characteristic of heaven, hell or purgatory is that they are states of being of a spirit (angel/demon) or human soul, rather than places, as commonly perceived and represented in human language. This language of place is, according to the Pope, inadequate to describe the realities involved, since it is tied to the temporal order in which this world and we exist. In this he is applying the philosophical categories used by the Church in her theology and saying what St. Thomas Aquinas said long before him.
"Incorporeal things are not in place after a manner known and familiar to us, in which way we say that bodies are properly in place; but they are in place after a manner befitting spiritual substances, a manner that cannot be fully manifest to us." [St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Supplement, Q69, a1, reply 1]
2006-10-27 09:24:53 · answer #3 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The existence of heaven and hell cannot be proven so they only exist as a state of mind.
2006-10-27 09:23:24 · answer #4 · answered by The professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven for someone is the most ideal state of life he/she can imagine. Someone's heaven might be hell for someone else, and someone's hell might be heaven for someone else. Heaven for a kid will be full of candies. Heaven for an adolescent boy will be full of attractive young girls. Heaven for a drunkard will be full of free alcoholic drinks. If you are serious about heaven and hell, click on the following links and read further.
2006-10-27 09:31:06 · answer #5 · answered by John 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They are states of existence. They are also places, in some sense that we cannot understand. However they are not places in the usual sense, since material places exist in time and space, and time and space will cease to exist, but heaven and hell will never cease to exist.
2006-10-27 09:26:18 · answer #6 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you are what you think. Heaven and hell are the result of your thought patterns. A neat trick is to be in neither one. But this is heresy and you will offend many with this question.
2006-10-27 09:17:03 · answer #7 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Regarding Mankind, GOD says in the HOLY QURAN, HE created man with clay/dirt. So earth got different colour mud/sand/dirt/clay, in this way Mankind created in different different color and after death mankind will return back to dirt and then GOD will resurrect whole mankind on the day of judgement for the accountability
GOD created mankind for test and final destination will be either ETERNAL PARADISE or HELL WITHOUT CHOICE
GOD already knows whom HE will be going to admit in paradise or hell. But people of HELL will say to GOD you have not done justice why you have not admitted us in paradise. That is why GOD created EARTH for the TEST for mankind only for excuse. If people believe in GOD and obey HIM, HE will admit them in paradise otherwise hell. That is how people of HELL will not have any excuse in the hereafter.
2006-10-27 09:22:05 · answer #8 · answered by A2Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is nearness to God. Hell is distance from God and drowning in one's self.
2006-10-27 11:02:58 · answer #9 · answered by Linell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are real places God gave me dreams about hell and I have read books about hell and believe me its the worst place you could ever imagine...
2006-10-27 09:45:17 · answer #10 · answered by Angel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋