2006-11-12 14:08:39 · 20 answers · asked by LadyRebecca 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To punish people huh? So, is God really that childish?
2006-11-12 14:12:13 · update #1
Not really, lookilu56, I stand by my question......something of substance from you would be appreciated though
2006-11-12 14:14:30 · update #2
According to the Bible it is a place prepared for the devil and his angels, and by default unbelievers go there, since it is impossible for them to be in the presence of God without atonement for their sins, which they have rejected.
Matthew 25:41 "Then He will also say to those on His left, `Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;
2006-11-12 14:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
some denominations nonetheless position self assurance in a Hell that God tosses human beings into for quite some transgressions. the conception of Hell is seen in the course of the historic previous of human conception structures. that's a large difficulty. To earlier cultures it made experience that undesirable human beings had to be punished, it looked really honest. The Greeks had Hades, Egyptians the Netherworld, Islam, Buddhists and Hindus all help a conception in Hell. Artists and poets are to blame for the lavish Christian Hell. The Church followed the conception of Hell for quite some causes which include an section that replaced into even worse than life contained in the darkish a lengthy time period in Europe. It replaced right into a doctrine to scare human beings into accepting authority and doing reliable. Fundamentalists are massive on the Hell of previous. present day Christian perspectives hostile to Hell "everlasting punishment" can confer with outcomes that are everlasting, not an everlasting procedure. Vindictive justice is compared to minded with the God of affection and compassion printed contained in the recent testomony. The punishment does not in good structure the crime (i.e. non-everlasting sin and disbelief). Hell contradicts the Christian fact of the perfect victory of God over evil.
2016-11-23 18:41:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These things are meant as metaphors to try to describe states of being. Have you ever heard the term "your own personal hell" or "hell on earth"? That is what hell is. It's a state of being that ecclipses joy. I have seen it myself. People so mired in despair or grief or resentment, that they no longer live life properly. If one is in this state of mind when they die, it can obscure the way home and leave a person doomed to remain in the physical plane, steeped in self hatred, guilt, despair, etc. until they are shown the way home.
It is important that a religion steer folks away from this, right? If you disobey their rules you might fall into despair (or your own personal hell) and not be able to get up or return to source in the end. Same is true for a person blinded by greed, vanity, whatever. It's the all consuming negative emotion that you are being advised away from. That is all.
Peace!
2006-11-12 14:27:18 · answer #3 · answered by carole 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe it is a place where we torment ourselves by our own guilt and condemnation. The point is though that God is holy and we cannot go straight to him with sin still in us. In hell one can have the opportunity to call on Jesus and be forgiven for those sins and go home to Heaven. I don't think it is necessarily a place of actual fire but I think there might be different levels depending on how much love is in a person's heart and what type of life they have lived.
2006-11-12 14:31:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a place for the Others to go. It started with the Hebrews, who were regularly conquered by all manners of unsavory armies. 'The Oppressors shall suffer!' was the original catch phrase for Hell, eventually becoming 'only we will reach Paradise'. Than Jesus came along and created Judeaism for Gentiles, opening up 'Salvation' to more than just Hebrews. When you hate your neighbors and any different culture, or the occupying army, it's easy to think of their Afterlife being a revenge for the pain they caused you.
2006-11-12 14:17:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
a complete absence from god. the price of rebellion. the idea of hell has
'altered
' over time. like much of religion.
2006-11-12 14:44:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's an imaginary place that Christians, Muslims and Jews pretend to be real, so that they can imagine their enemies (and dissidents, and apostates) to be writhing and shrieking in agony. When they have pictured these "sinners" burning in the flames, they gloat about it. Hell is for schadenfreud, for rubbing their hands with malicious delicious delight, and for being snooty about going to a much nicer place in the next world.
2006-11-12 14:15:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Jesus wants to give you a choice. If you so hate Him that much that you can't stand to be around Him and others that love Him, then He'll let you live forever apart from Him. And it is a place that sucks, because life without Him sucks.
The only people that go there are ones that reject Jesus Christ.
2006-11-12 14:10:45 · answer #8 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
have you thought about the point of heaven? hell is really really terrible, heaven is really really nice. they balance out. does that make god a bad god for sending people to hell and at the same time a good god for sending people to heaven? sounds pretty balanced to me...
2006-11-12 14:15:35 · answer #9 · answered by unkerpaulie 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God is HOLY and cannot look upon sin. as people we have a sin nature that seperates us from Him. Jesus cleanses us and has atoned for our wrong doings, all of them, we can be face to face with God for eternity. Those who reject Christ cannot. God will not subject His children to fellowship with darkness but will seperate and protect them.
2006-11-12 14:15:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋