2006-12-11 12:21:22 · 12 answers · asked by TBone 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, because it doesn't exist. Anyone who believes that our all-loving God would actually condemn people to a place of eternal damnation are already living in their own self-made hell.
Even Pope John Paul II didn't believe in hell as a literal place, but as a state of mind.
POPE JOHN PAUL II – SPEECH: JULY 21, 1999:
In three Wednesday Audiences, Pope John Paul II pointed out that the essential characteristic of heaven, hell or purgatory is that they are states of being of a spirit (angel/demon) or human soul, rather than places, as commonly perceived and represented in human language. This language of place is, according to the Pope, inadequate to describe the realities involved, since it is tied to the temporal order in which this world and we exist. In this he is applying the philosophical categories used by the Church in her theology and saying what St. Thomas Aquinas said long before him.
"Incorporeal things are not in place after a manner known and familiar to us, in which way we say that bodies are properly in place; but they are in place after a manner befitting spiritual substances, a manner that cannot be fully manifest to us." [St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Supplement, Q69, a1, reply 1]
2006-12-11 12:29:44 · answer #1 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mat 7:13 Go in through the narrow gate. The gate to destruction is wide, and the road that leads there is easy to follow. A lot of people go through that gate.
Mat 7:14 But the gate to life is very narrow. The road that leads there is so hard to follow that only a few people find it.
2006-12-11 12:26:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No,
I believe religion is relative, whatever a person believes is true for them. Therefore, I believe only people who believe they're going to hell will go to hell, and I don't know too many of those.
2006-12-11 12:24:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bible, yes. If not most, then all people are going to this so-called "Hell".
2006-12-11 12:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No,because hell is hear and now on earth or heaven depending how you live life
2006-12-11 12:28:20 · answer #5 · answered by woodsonhannon53 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
according to the new testament,all the people who do not accept Jesus as the Savior,will go to hell
that means that all Muslims,Hindus,Buddhists,Atheists,etc ,are going to hell
in my case....i do not believe in hell or heaven
2006-12-11 12:31:33 · answer #6 · answered by pdrfer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who knows peoples hearts.Only God can judge true.
2006-12-11 12:26:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a fair assessment.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
2006-12-11 12:31:46 · answer #8 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2006-12-11 12:25:44 · answer #9 · answered by miked 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Where do you think you are living now.
2006-12-11 12:25:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋