2006-11-28 16:10:23 · 17 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Christians believe that all humans (including Christians) are evil. We all sin and are not worthy of being in the presence of God, who we believe is perfectly Holy and good. We also believe that all humans will exist eternally. Those humans who reject God (we believe that it is each person's free will to seek God or to choose their own path) will be eternally separated from God. Eternal separation from God is Hell. It seems that it will be a pretty bad place because evil will not be restrained there.
The only way to stand in the presence of God is to accept his free gift of salvation through the atoning death of his Son, Jesus. By believing in Jesus as our Savior, we get to "wear" Jesus's righteousness. God "gives us" Jesus's perfectness. This perfectness does not occur until the believer is in the presence of God (heaven). While the believer is here on earth, he/she tries their best to live their life with love towards God and love towards other people.
2006-11-28 16:25:09 · answer #1 · answered by ANDYMAN 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hell is a place that God designated for the Devil and all the Angels that fell with him to go to AFTER God summons the saved home. God NEVER intended for mankind to go to Hell. Hell was made specifically for Lucifer and the fallen Angels. BUT, because man sinned in the Garden of Eden, mankind has no choice but to go there if he doesn't sincerely repent and accept Jesus, whom God sent to save man from Hell, because sin CANNOT enter Heaven. God doesn't send man to Hell. Man sends himself. And once you're there... you can't leave. There is no, "I'll stay here until the sin is removed from me." The Bible PLAINLY says so. There is NO second chance after you die.
As far as where it is, I can't answer that. Some people say, in the bowels of the earth. Others say it's like it's own plane of existence cut off from the physical world.
2006-11-29 00:39:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a small town in Michigan, near Pickney about a half-hour from Ann Arbor. A few groups of bikers like to go through on runs a couple of times a year. There isn't much there, but Michigan weather forecasters frequently refer to its cold winter temps.
"It's going to be a cold day in Hell. Back to you Chad and Marsha."
2006-11-29 00:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by anyone 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in hell. Quite a few cultures, past and present, don't either. The concept wasn't even introduced until the New Testament of the Bible and exists only in the Christian religion. Even then, alot of people feel it's simply a mythological scare tactic.
2006-11-29 00:18:50 · answer #4 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In simple terms, being in hell is being outside the grace of God. Hell is not so much a physical geography as it is a state of existence.
2006-11-29 00:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To me, Hell is naraka, a state if mind. It is the byproduct of hatred anger, an endless cycle of insatiable bitterness that eventually becomes introverted and consumes the afflicted person...
2006-11-29 00:19:10 · answer #6 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell is a place of eternal torment, away from God, away from everyone.
Everyone goes there because no one is good enough to be with the perfect God, unless they have a way to become perfect. The only way I know how to do that is by trusting in Christ, that he took everything that keeps us from perfection when he died.
2006-11-29 00:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by kristy-in-the-corner 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In Judaism it is a temporary (maximum 12 months) metaphysical place where your soul is cleaned of your sins not yet cleansed from this world through repentance or troubles in life before entering heaven or reincarnation.
2006-11-29 00:13:53 · answer #8 · answered by David Botton 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont know where hell is, but it seems like just about everyone is going to hell.
2006-11-29 01:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by Katie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IHell is the world's mental (spiritual) darkness. It is living without the light (knowledge) of God. God is not in our darkness. Darkness is disruptions for it is without the saving power of His Truth-Life and Love. God is our source and we cannot be healthy without knowledge of our source anymore then a plant can be healthy without water or fish without an ocean. The disruptions in the world is not of God, but is the result of collective darkness. Only in our light can we know God, and knowing Him is knowing who we are and what is our purpose.
2006-11-29 00:57:05 · answer #10 · answered by Helen Nanney 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋