My controversial theory - Heaven and Hell?

Question

First assume that Heaven and Hell exists.

Given our general belief as follows:

Heaven - You do good deeds, you go to heaven
Hell - You do bad deeds, you go to hell.
God - Doesn't like bad deeds and wants to punish you and send you to hell
Devil - Likes bad deeds, won't punish you for bad deeds. He doesn't like good deeds.
God - Doesn't like Hell, Hates Satan.
Satan - Hates God, Doesn't like Heaven.

Given the above, if Satan hates God and Loves Bad Deeds and Bad People, and if Gods wants to Punish Bad People, technically shouldn't Satan reward bad people?
If Satan punishes people in Hell, then he's behaving like God. Doesn't make sense.

If Satan is truly against God, he shouldn't be doing anything that God appreciates or likes in the first place, including punishing of the Bad.

I believe that hell is the place to be to have real fun.

Marvin, you said "life under the control of another is a living hell". But isn't it true, that life is also controlled by God in heaven and earth? He's still telling you how to live and what to do? And defines what is good and what is evil. So you're under the control of him anyway.

Answer 1

camel: You are right - this is all a paradox ! I'm a Christian and I do not believe in the "hell" (mis) concept ! I conducted my, own, personal study on "hell" when I was coming into Christianity and there is NO proof of "hell" being the final "frontier" for the non-believers ( atheists ) . I agree; if God is in the SAVING business, why would there be billions, throughout history, sentenced to an ever lasting "hell" fire ? This proves, that Satan [devil] is far more powerful and more capable than God. Whereas, God can only "save" a few hundred million (educated guess) and Satan multi-Billions !!! This is a paradox ... hands down !!! If people were to really read and research the Holy Bible as it was intended for them to do, they will come to see that "hell" is not a credible Bible doctine, answer nor solution ! Food for thought !!!

Answer 2

This became the thought that got here to my thoughts when I bump into this theory, a medieval portrayal of hell, its areas and geography. Why then each and all the super, yet ‘faithless’ philosophers, thinkers, poets and warriors could we stumble on the in limbo, waiting to be finally set unfastened from the purgatory? i think of even nonetheless some distance fetched the depictions of heavens and hell of scriptures, and of super literary works, we could locate, they're necessary approximately existence, the existence this is right here and now, or may well be too heavily approximately existence than we could locate ourselves waiting to settle for.

Answer 3

Very interesting theory! I would agree that a Satan that rewards bad behavior is more reasonable than a Satan that punishes everyone (or just those in Hell) equally. In fact, one would expect the Christian god would be the one jabbing pitchforks into the sides of those who didn't ... er, what's the criteria for being in hell anyways?

Good theory, I like it.

Answer 4

First There are two hells, one is the punishment we have to pay for for our bad deeds, if we do not except the saviors atonement. The second is simply just being cast out of Gods presents and that is where the devil is. Cast out and miserable, what he wants is more company. On the same token there are more than one level of heaven, you get what you earn.

Answer 5

Why not quit assuming and read God's word concerning these things:
Heaven-Dwelling place of God and angels--only a very few humans will go there in order to rule as kings and priests with Christ.
Hell-the grave--there is no consciousness there
God-motivated by more love and justice than any human could ever imagine. According to Jeremiah 7:31 would never even think to burn his children alive in fire.
Devil-Liar who caused death to come into the world.
Jesus-God's son who has redeemed us from sin and death by sacrificing his perfect human life on our behalf.
God--Has the power and desire to fix everything when the time is best for all his children.
Satan--soon to be removed from the picture.
Makes perfect sense to me.

Answer 6

God created Hell for Satan and his demons when they rebelled and were thrown out of Heaven!
Satan is not the ruler of Hell--that is where he is going to be burning forever and there will be no escape. Satan knows his outcome and is trying to take as many people as he can to Hell!

Answer 7

This thing with hell and torture is something invented by men. Someone must've had a bad dream or something.
The Bible doesn't say anything about life after death, how is on the other side etc.

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?

Turning to the book of Genesis, we read about the creation of the earth, seas, fish, animals and even the sun and the moon. Yet nowhere do we read about God’s creating a special underworld compartment for the broiling torment of man. It seems strange that, if he made one, God did not have recorded in the Bible the creation of such an important place as a burning hell. Yet suppose he did make one. Would not Jehovah’s love and justice have moved him to warn Adam of the full penalty of sin? Jehovah told Adam the consequence of sin was death. Are we really to think that, after Adam sinned, Jehovah changed his mind about the death sentence and decided to give Adam the torture treatment? The Bible answers: “I, Jehovah, change not.”—Mal. 3:6, AS.

Job was a faithful servant of God. Trying to break Job’s integrity, the Devil placed Job in a miserable state of affairs. So the suffering Job prayed to God: “Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell [Sheol, AS], and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?” (Job 14:13, Dy) Since Job was already being tormented by the Devil, would he pray to be “protected” in, of all places, a Devil-managed compartment of red-hot coals? Hardly! Job would not pray to go from the frying pan into the fire! Job understood hell to be the common grave of mankind where he would rest until the resurrection.

How does Almighty God look upon the idea of roasting men and women in fire? Well, man is made in the image of God. Yet we would not torture a man or a woman, even for one day! Why, the man who would torture a cat is, we say, a fiend. This is natural, since man does not love fiends; he detests them. Fiendishness repels. It is repugnant to God. For when the Israelites religiously burned their children in fire, Jehovah said: “They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.” (Jer. 7:31, AS) Fiendishness does not even enter the mind of the Creator. And no wonder, for “God is love.”—1 John 4:8.

Turning now to the Christian Greek Scriptures, we find that the word translated “hell” and that corresponds to Sheol is the Greek Hades. Does the literal meaning of Hades carry the thought of glowing fire? No, it simply means “the unseen state.” As with Sheol, there are no live people in Hades. “Death and Hades [hell, AV; Dy] gave up those dead in them.” (Rev. 20:13, NW) Since at the resurrection Hades gives up its contents of “dead” people, it is not eternal.

Thus far we have learned four things: (1) God detests fiendishness, (2) the good as well as the bad go to hell, (3) hell is not eternal, and (4) the Hebrews viewed hell or Sheol, not as a place of red-hot fire, but as the cold, silent grave.

Answer 8

It sounds like you are trying to explain the generic Christian concepts of heaven and hell as understood by someone who has never read the Bible.

It has the answers you seek.

Answer 9

Who said God hated bad people!?

The word says
"He loves the person but HATES the SIN!"

Answer 10

Neither does your reasoning about heaven and hell. That's not all Biblical.