2006-11-26 07:41:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If souls are flesh, then i'd understand
2006-11-26 07:41:46 · update #1
Pain has no physical existence more than the process of thought does. Ergo if you have awareness you can burn or feel pain.
I hope that truly evil people like Bush, Stalin, Hitler etc. are blessed in the next existence with a million souls each so they may experience the degree of pain and suffering they deserve.
2006-11-26 07:48:43 · answer #1 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I had always been taught that the whole burning of souls in hell was actually a metaphor that ancient people could best identify with (like burning at the stake). It was a way to illustrate the torment a soul goes through in hell in basic terms to essentially scare people and keep them in check.
More modern interpretations claim that hell is essentially the absence of God for eternity.
Personally, I don't know. I've yet to die!
2006-11-26 15:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by atomicfrog81 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It was just made up to scare the believers and get them to stay in line. So far it has worked to perfection. Even better than guy who thought of the idea in the first place, I would image..
2006-11-26 16:02:01 · answer #3 · answered by terencework 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the soul is you, your body of flesh and blood.
and it dies, the soul that is sinning it its self will die.
But the spirit returns to the true God who gave it.
So it is the spirit that can't burn up.
The angels are called spirits. So they are spirit persons.
Without a soul or a body.
2006-11-26 15:44:57 · answer #4 · answered by Steven 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Fire is he changing of energy states. If a soul is energy then it cna burn/change states. THe interesting thing is it can burn eternally.
2006-11-26 15:44:30 · answer #5 · answered by mike g 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You're honest and observant; but it's useless to ask that question to the hopeless religious cooks who buy into that kind of nonsense.
2006-11-26 15:50:24 · answer #6 · answered by big j 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Read Luke 16:19-31 and then you'll have your answer, my friend.
2006-11-26 15:43:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
the fire of Hell is totally different in nature to fire on earth, and even if it where not, it would never kill the soul which is immortal.
2006-11-26 15:45:05 · answer #8 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We will have new bodies, so in a sense, they will be flesh.
2006-11-26 15:44:06 · answer #9 · answered by edward_lmb 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it's a metaphor, like all the metaphors they use to explain that which they cannot explain because it cannot be explained, becaues it's a fairy tale.
2006-11-26 15:51:50 · answer #10 · answered by heyrobo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋