Is Hell the grave or a place of eternal torment? I here people saying both of these. Is it a place where you are tormented night and day for all eternity or simply death without rebirth? If answered where in the Bible proves this? Also what denomination of Christians believe the Sheol Grave theory and which believe the torment/fire brimstone theory?
2007-01-01 16:28:32 · 15 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
also to let you know I am an agnostic.
2007-01-01 16:30:51 · update #1
In the bible the word hell is mistranslated from 3 other words. I am too sleepy right now to remember the exact spelling. I am sure that you can research it if you really want to. In the old testament (which was originally written in Hebrew) it was translated from a word meaning the grave. The other one in Hebrew meant the place where the devil and his angels would be locked up for eternity. They are immortal so this would be the case. In the new testament it is translated from a Greek word. I cannot remember the word at this moment but it referred to a very large pit in Jerusalem where garbage, dead animals and often the dead bodies of the poor or criminals were thrown in. It burned constantly and was an analogy for the Lake of Fire in which the bible states the wicked will be thrown into after the judgment and burned up. Not for ever and ever. If people are going to believe the bible they need to learn what is in it instead of only reading parts here and there in church. They are missing a lot. I personally don't believe any of it but I know what is in it.
2007-01-01 16:37:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The New Testament views hell as the final abode of those condemned to eternal punishment at the Last Judgment (Matthew 25:41-46; Revelation 20:11-15). It is described as a place of fire and darkness (Jude 7, 13), of “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 8:12; 13:42, 50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30), of destruction (2 Thessalonians 1:7–9; 2 Peter 3:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:3) and torment (Revelation 20:10; Luke 16:23). These terms are probably symbolic rather than literal, but, if anything, the reality will be more terrible than the symbol. New Testament teaching about hell is meant to appall us and fill us with horror, persuading us that though heaven will be better than we could dream, so hell will be worse than we can imagine. These are the issues of eternity that must be realistically faced.
Hell is not so much the absence of God, as the consequence of His wrath and displeasure. God is like a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29), and His righteous condemnation for defying Him and clinging to the sins He loathes will be experienced in hell (Romans 2:6, 8, 9, 12). According to Scripture, hell is unending (Jude 13; Revevlation 20:10). There is no biblical warrant for speculations about a “second chance” after death, or an annihilation of the ungodly at some stage.
Those in hell will realize that they have sentenced themselves to be there because they have loved darkness rather than light, refusing to have their Creator as their Lord. They preferred the self-indulgence of sin to self-denying righteousness, rejecting the God that made them (John 3:18-21; Romans 1:18, 24, 26, 28, 32; 2:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11). General revelation confronts everyone with a certain evidence of God, and from this standpoint hell has a basis in God’s respect for human choice. All receive what they chose, either to be with God forever, or to be without Him. Those who are in hell will know, not only that for their doings they deserve it, but that in their hearts they chose it.
The purpose of the Bible’s teaching about hell is to make us turn with gratitude to the grace of Christ that saves us from it (Matthew 5:29, 30; 13:48-50). For this reason God’s warning to us is merciful; He has “no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live” (Ezekiel 33:11).
And the two groups that I know of who interpret hell as merely the grave are Jehovah's Witnesses & Seventh Day Adventists (with minor differences).
2007-01-02 00:45:15 · answer #2 · answered by srprimeaux 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Death is only the grave? You wish! Only people in danger of going to Hell have that silly notion. If the right eye offend the pluck it out and cast it from the saith the Lord. It is better to enter Heaven with one eye than be cast into Eternal Hell Fire with two good eyes where the worm never dies and the flame is not quenched. All true Christians believe in eternal hell fire. xx
2007-01-02 00:41:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
King Constantine and Paul made hell to be an eternal place. The original teachings of Christ (The Gospel of the Nazirenes) Christ teaches Karma, Reincarnation, and hell as a place one goes temporarily to get there very bad karma. There is hellish conditions on earth as well as heavenly conditions here. But hell is only hellish. But no one goes their for eternity not even Saddam or Hitler. go to gospelofthenazirenes for the original teachings of Christ and krishnaculture. for Vedic perspective on Hell heaven karma, reincarnation. Read Bhagavad Gita As it is By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
2007-01-02 00:35:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell is a mythical creation of early Christian forefathers to scare people into submitting to the "Christian ways".
Notice there was no talk of Hell before Christianity was created.
It's a Christian thing!
What exactly is agnostic anyways?
2007-01-02 00:38:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible describes it as a place where there will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth forever. Luke 13:28
2007-01-02 02:23:30 · answer #6 · answered by roxy39_2002 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell - a mythical location used to scare the heck (no pun intended) out of everybody so that they will follow orders. In fact no all-knowing, all-loving and all-merciful father figure would every create such a place, allow such a place to exist and/or send his children there for any reason.
2007-01-02 00:32:16 · answer #7 · answered by Alan 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hell is a state of mind. Is like living for eternity without God. I know people live without God on earth, but He is still with us even when we abandon Him, yet once you reach hell there is no coming back.
2007-01-02 00:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes...all of the above. Or, as an old Veteran once said to me. "Hell is having all kinds of time and no money." Same thing.
2007-01-02 00:30:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The definition could be many things .. hell on earth and in ther after life .. depending on what kind of person you were when you were alive depends on the level you will be sent to when you die.
2007-01-02 00:34:11 · answer #10 · answered by lizzaddella77 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋