2006-12-28 14:51:44 · 21 answers · asked by livindeadgirlxx 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hell is right here on earth. Here there is misery in form of birth, disease, old age and death, what to speak of constant anxiety and fear.
2006-12-28 14:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by edcaimo 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think that there is a hell. I dont believe in purgatory, so i believe that a person goes directly to heaven or hell. There has to be balance in the world and in the afterlife. Wherever there is good there is evil, so all of the people who do not believe that there is a place in heaven for them will find that there is a place for them in hell. Kind of like a big row of chairs. Your chair waits for you in hell until you move it into heaven. You have to take it upon yourself to move your chair.
2006-12-28 14:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I do not believe in Hell, it doesn't exist. The word Hell does not appear in the Torah. There is mention of Gehenna:
Gehenna, from the Greeh geenna or the Hebrew hinnom, the Valley of Hinnom, is a deep narrow glen south of Jerusalem.
2006-12-28 15:10:50 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your definition of hell, if its a place filled with fire and all the "evil" people go there after they die. Then no, I dont belive in hell, I'm not 8 years old...
But I do believe in lower level of conciousness which could be defined as hell. or what the buddhists call samsara..
2006-12-28 15:02:38 · answer #4 · answered by luckychucky 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, because nothing is forever. Hell doesn't scare me. The idea of heaven is just as uncomfortable a notion to me. Why would God punish you forever? What kind of ego would God have to take that kind of rash action in retaliation to a mortal?
Come on, that way of thinking is archaic. Hell is the grave.
2006-12-28 15:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible speaks of Hell.It is a place of torment and where the sinner is held until judgment.After judgment Hell ,the Devil and his Angels and the people who didn`t follow Gods teachings or believe in him will be cast into the fiery pit and will burn.This is the second death.It says they will burn forever.I believe that forever means that they are burned up and will never be again.They won`t be remembered.
2006-12-28 14:57:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because the Bible states it so...
Rev 20:14-15 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Scary thing is that if you do not believe Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you will find this out.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
BUT...
1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2006-12-28 14:57:10 · answer #7 · answered by Ray G 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes, Because when i was sleeping things from Hell came around, they were like embers from a fire and radiated with the pains from hell. Hell is Horror thats the best way to explain it and it definnetly has its own feeling. Theirs other places hades, the abyss.
2006-12-28 14:57:32 · answer #8 · answered by chucky 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, and you shouldn't either.
Gehenna was the city dump outside of Jerusalem.
If you were "damned to 'hell'", it simply meant that rather than being buried honorably according to Jewish tradition, and remembered every year in a recited Kaddish in temple on the anniversary of your death, you were unceremoniously dumped in the dump where the trash got burned.
2006-12-28 15:00:40 · answer #9 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
HELL IN KJV
One Hebrew word “sheol” is rendered hell. Definition; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranian retreat), grave, hell, pit. Three Greek words are rendered hell; geenna, hades, and tartaroo. Definition of geenna; a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment: - hell. Definition of hades; properly unseen, that is, “Hades” or the place (state) of departed souls: - grave, hell. Definition of tartaroo; (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment: - cast down to hell. Tartaroo is used only one place II Pet.2:4.
Christ teaching the Pharisees in Luke 16:19-31 shows us a separation from God is truly what hell is. The “water” is symbolic for God’s Spirit and love. The word “tormented” means distressed in the Greek, not torture. The “fire” is symbolic for the shame and desire not to be separated from God.
So all who die the first death of the flesh return to God Ecc.12:6-7, but on which side of the gulf do they end up?
Hell is not eternal but is done away with in Rev.20:14-15, called both the second death and lake of fire. This second death is non-existence, for death and hell and those not written in the book of life. This second death or lake of fire is like fat drippings that fall into the fire. Just a poof of smoke into non-existence.
Psa.37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
In my mind what’s worse yet is no memory of you, no tears will be shed for you like you never existed.
Rev.21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
So hell is a separation from God and is not eternal torture or burning. Eventually hell will be done away with or passed away and also some souls. Like fat drippings in the fire, a poof of smoke into non-existence, the second death.
2006-12-28 14:54:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋