People must've asked that question 10 times last night. I don't mean to be rude. Really. But don't people ever look at the list below your question that tells you how many other people just asked that same question?
2006-11-25 23:21:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is for you, Johnnie Atheist - I did start going back to other people's questions and cutting and pasting an answer about hell for you, but then I thought, "why should I do your dirty work?" You should be the one going under discover and looking at other people's answers to find out for yourself. But I know you don't really care anyway.
2006-11-26 00:37:43 · update #1
I think people ask the question again and again because there is never a satisfying answer for it. I have also already asked about it and read and answered other questions about this issue.
2006-11-25 23:25:56 · answer #1 · answered by Elly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I Agree.. People Ask These Questions And Recieve The Same Robotic Answer..Knowing That Ther Is More to it..
I Don't Beg The Question Anymore Because NO ONE HAS THE ANSWER!!!
A Bunch Of Quotes... But no Answer..
2006-11-25 23:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by J. N 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a Hell to be shunned. Jesus talked about it in the four gospels, a lot. See Biblegateway.com
God created Hell for the devil and his followers.
When Eve was deceived and Adam sinned their decedents inherited their sin nature.
Sin cannot enter the presence of God because God is Holy, God is Pure, God is Perfect. If sin entered His presence it would change God's character and God's character cannot be changed.
Therefore man (generic) cannot enter God's presence as a sinful creature. However, God loves man (generic) and wants to have a relationship with him in His presence. So God provided a Way that man's sin could be covered and remembered no more in order that he might enter God's presence.
God has also given man (generic) a choice as to whether he wants to be in God's presence in eternity or not. So, therefore, there are 2 ways to live here on earth and the Way man (generic) chooses determines man's (generic) destiny in eternity.
See the website 2wtl (2 ways to live).
2006-11-25 23:45:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pagan religions are noted for teaching red-hot hells. The ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Persians, Grecians and Hindus taught flaming hells. The Buddhists teach a hell wherein people cook and sizzle in blazing kettles. Is the Bible hell as hot as the pagans paint theirs? Here is the answer.
Webster’s unabridged dictionary tells us that hell corresponds to the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades. It also says that hell comes from the English word helan, meaning “to conceal.” So we have found that the early meaning of the word “hell” carried no thought of any kind of heat. It merely meant “concealed.” We have found, too, that the original Hebrew word, usually translated “hell” in English Bibles, is Sheol. Now what does Sheol mean? It simply means “a hollow place.” So the original Hebrew word perfectly corresponds with the original or early meaning of the English word “hell.”
The Catholic Douay Bible, at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, says: “The living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more. Neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge, shall be in hell [Sheol, AS], whither thou art hastening.” So, since the “dead know nothing more,” or as the King James Version says, “the dead know not any thing,” it would be impossible for them to know conscious torment. And since there is no work in hell, how can there be activity, red-hot or otherwise?
For more information please click on the link below:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/7/15/article_02.htm
2006-11-25 23:25:52 · answer #4 · answered by Emma 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I ask that same question of parents I see out shopping with their kids who cry, spanking them, yelling at them, berating them, shaking them. Just yesterday some woman told her toddler that Adults are the only ones that can push buttons, when babies do it bad things happen.
I guess everyone loves playing God.
2006-11-25 23:36:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The concept of "Hell" is a carryover from early pagan religious beliefs that were part of the early Christian faith.
If you do a little research you can discover more detail about this.
2006-11-25 23:31:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know what they don't understand is that people actually send themselves to hell. The Good Lord has given us every chance to repent, ask for forgiveness, and ask Jesus Christ to come into our hearts, it's all up to US. If you don't want to go to hell, then you need to get a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2006-11-25 23:28:07 · answer #7 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Lol. It's true! However - how could he? Perhaps they found no good answers - because there are none.
2006-11-25 23:26:34 · answer #8 · answered by lady_s_hazy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen!
2006-11-25 23:23:45 · answer #9 · answered by Rhonda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps until they find the answer that satisfies them .....and gets their butt of the hook.
2006-11-26 00:54:44 · answer #10 · answered by Blondie B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋