Do you believe in a place called HELL spoken of in the christian bible?

Answer 1

No, infinite punishment for finite crime goes against the concept of an all-loving, all-just, and all-merciful deity.

I think if the god that Jews, Christians, and Muslims worship is the real G-d, the Jews have him pegged, and the Christians and Muslims have turned god into a hateful, vengeful being.

For the record, no sect of Judiasm I know of believes in Hell.

Answer 2

No I believe in an existence were God and you are separated from each others presence .From what I have read in the bible Hell is used to give that separation a personification or show the danger in the influence of evil.

Answer 3

WHATEVER image the word "hell" brings to your mind, hell is generally thought of as a place of punishment for sin. Concerning sin and its effect, the Bible says: "Through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned." (Romans 5:12) The Scriptures also state: "The wages sin pays is death." (Romans 6:23) Since the punishment for sin is death, the fundamental question in determining the true nature of hell is: What happens to us when we die?

Does life of some kind, in some form, continue after death? What is hell, and what kind of people go there? Is there any hope for those in hell? The Bible gives truthful and satisfying answers to these questions.

Life After Death?


The lake of fire has a meaning similar to that of "the fiery Gehenna [hell fire, King James Version]" that Jesus spoke of. (Matthew 5:22; Mark 9:47, 48) Gehenna occurs 12 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures, and it refers to the valley of Hinnom, outside the walls of Jerusalem. When Jesus was on earth, this valley was used as a garbage dump, "where the dead bodies of criminals, and the carcasses of animals, and every other kind of filth was cast." (Smith's Dictionary of the Bible) The fires were kept burning by adding sulfur to burn up the refuse. Jesus used that valley as a proper symbol of everlasting destruction.

As does Gehenna, the lake of fire symbolizes eternal destruction. Death and Hades are "hurled into" it in that they will be done away with when mankind is freed from sin and the condemnation of death. Willful, unrepentant sinners will also have their "portion" in that lake. (Revelation 21:8) They too will be annihilated forever. On the other hand, those in God's memory who are in hell—the common grave of mankind—have a marvelous future.

Answer 4

The idea that a place of eternal damnation consisting of fire and a devil is by far the greatest lie ever told. But it worked. The people do as told and have their moral highground to sit atop. However in case u didnt know it, the concept of hell far outdates the bible. It is impossible to pinpoint its exact origin but it definatly was way before the bibles book of storys

Answer 5

Are the Wicked Punished in an Ever-burning Hell?
"It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire-where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched' " (Mark 9:47-48).
Did Jesus here warn of an eternal punishment in hellfire?
The words in the phrase hell fire, above, are translated from the Greek word gehenna. Jesus here referred to the valley of Hinnom, just outside of Jerusalem. In His day this area was a garbage dump in which fires burned constantly, fueled by trash and the dead bodies of animals and criminals.
Jesus used this desolate and miserable place as symbolic of the fate of unrepentant sinners. Notice that Jesus says the worm does not die, not that the people punished in hellfire do not die. The punishment is eternal, meaning that it is permanent and complete. But this does not mean that the incorrigible are kept alive and tortured by a vengeful God.
Burned remains of the bodies in the original gehenna, the Valley of Hinnom, decomposed and were infested with maggots. The fire was not extinguished-it burned as long as there was trash to keep it burning-and the maggots (the "worms" of Mark 9:48) were not destroyed. Maggots are the wormlike larvae of flies. Flies swarm over the decaying refuse and keep it continuously infested with maggots. Then, instead of dying, those creatures turn into more flies in a continuing cycle.
The bodies of animals and people thrown into gehenna, however, either decayed or burned up and, of course, were eventually completely consumed. Similarly, unrepentant sinners will not be tormented forever; they will be completely and eternally destroyed in the lake of fire, referred to in Revelation 20:14.

Answer 6

Hell isn't graves for Pete's sake. it relatively is the region the place the absence of GOD is done with a on a daily basis reminder of each and every thing you ever did to warrant and refuse the "Grace of GOD" on your eternal salvation alongside with consistent reminders of kin you will never see or hear of back. that's for specific a burning lake of fire eminent of eternal thirst and discomfort and the absence of love.

Answer 7

Yes I do. It is a real place . check out the book 23 MINUTES IN HELL. Scary, but all true

Answer 8

No, the only hell-like place that I believe in is naraka, and that is a state of mind...

Answer 9

Yes. Unequivocally.

Answer 10

Nope! Pretty hard for me to believe in a place that doesn't exist.