eternal torment in a pit flames??

Question

if I Sin for the 60 or 70 years i may live and go to hell, is it fair that i should experience being burned alive fore ever?? i mean surely just the 60 or 70 years would be more than enough payback for my sins in fact about 5 minutes would be more than enough!!

Answer 1

Hell is THE GRAVE!

Once you die, good or evil, YOU WILL GO TO HELL FOREVER!!!

Answer 2

Absolutely correct ! Thank God that the Bible does not teach this fable. No one will burn for trillions of milleniums in eternal flames for any sin.

Since the Bible does not teach this you do not have to believe it.

The Bible teaches that those who, as you say, "sin for 60 or 70 years" have failed to let God change their characters for heaven and consequently are unfit to live there.

Those who go to heaven must have Christlike characters. A Christlike character is the only kind of character that could enjoy heaven and the only kind of character that could be trusted in heaven.

So, sinning 60 or 70 years is a deliberate, voluntary, self determined exclusion from heaven.

The Bible teaches that after receiving their punishment, the unrighteous will cease to exist. If they continued to live in eternal flames forever, that would mean that they were immortal. But God does not promise immortality to the unrighteous.

Here are some scriptures that show how completely the unrighteous will be destroyed- not live - cease to exist.

Genesis 3:19 Turned to dust
6:7,17 Completely destroyed
19:23-29 Fire and brimstone

Exodus 22:20 Utterly Destroyed
1 Chronicles 28:9 Cast off forever

Job 18:18 Blotted off the planet
20:9 No longer exist
21:17 Blotted out
22:20 Fire Consumed them
34:24 Brake in pieces

Psalm 1:6 Ungodly shall perish
2:9 Brake in pieces
21:9,10 Destroyed utterly by fire
34:21 Slay the wicked
37:1,2 Cut down and wither away
37:9 Evil doers will be cut off
37:10 Shall not be
37:20 Turn to smoke - perish
37:22,28,34 Cut off
37:36,38 Destroyed altogether
50:3 Devoured
52:5 Destroyed forever
55:23 Destruction in pit
58:7 Melt away as water and cut in pieces
59:13 Consumed in wrath
62:3 God will slay the wicked
68:2 Burned as wax and perished
69:28 No longer living
73:18 Cast into destruction
75:3 Dissolved
92:7 Destroyed forever
104:35 No longer exist
139:19 God will slay the wicked
145:20 Destroyed the wicked

Proverbs 10:25 No longer exist
12:7 No longer exist
13:13 Destroyed

Isaiah 11:4 Slay
33:12 Burn as weeds
41:11,12 Turned into nothing

Ezekiel 18:4,20 Dead forever
Obadiah 1:16 No longer exist
Nahum 1:10 Burned as stubble

Malachi 4:1 Burnt up
4:3 Turned to ashes

Matthew 3:10,12 Chopped up and burnt
7:13,19,27 Destruction, Chopped up and burnt, Fall and ruined
10:28 Destroy body and soul
13:30,40,42,48 Burned up
21:41,44 Broken and destroyed
22:7 Burned and destroyed totally

Mark 12:9 Destroyed and ruined

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Answer 3

Although preached by many Christians, the idea of eternal torment in a pit flames is not accepted by all. Some believe that the wages of sin is death (Genesis 3:3; Romans 6:23), not eternal life in hell. In Ezekiel 18 God says that the soul that sins shall die. He does not say it will live forever in a pit of fire.

The death here spoken of is not the death that everybody now dies, which is temporary, but the second death which is the penalty for sin. This happens after the last judgment, when those who have been sentenced to death are killed by being burnt up. Perhaps those who are more wicked will burn longer, but the end result is that all the condemned criminals are reduced to ashes (Malachi 4:1,3). They die a death from which there will be no resurrection. See the other links below.

Answer 4

I think you are right because in Matthew 5:26 Jesus said you will not come out until you finish paying. There are tons of other scriptures that point to the fact the torments of hell are not actually forever. You see after death there is no time in the spirit world and 5 min. there is just like forever because time doesn't exist. I believe everyone who ends up in hell can get out when they are ready to ask for forgiveness and to acknowledge that God is right and they were wrong. I think this is very hard for a person to do though once you are there because the torments are so bad that you will likely be full of hatred and bitterness towards God.

Answer 5

For me, hell is the bad memories our fellow citizens will have of us after we die. Gradually these memories will go and that will be the end of our hell.

In primitive times tribal leaders and priests had to invent fire and brimstone and unimaginably cruel punishments so as to ensure some order. The trouble is that some Christians, especially in the Bible Belt of US, still live in those primitive times and swallow everything in the Old Testament hook line and sinker, even when they are contradicted by the New Testament. In Europe however, where educational standards are much higher, hardly any one believes in the Old Testament

Answer 6

You missed the point. The point is not that you are here to sin for a while and then be punished for it.
The point is that you are on earth to decide whether you want to accept God's offer of eternal life and live according to his government. It is all explained in the Bible and you will either accept or reject it. There are only two places to go and God has made a way for anyone to be saved. Do you want to do it his way or not???

Answer 7

It all depends on the weather - best to die on a very cold day, you will get the true benefit of the free heating system. To die on a hot day is not that bad, ask to be buried in something light , airy, and fashionable as the `HELLo`, foyer bar serves cocktails and chilled nibbles before the main roast . See you all there!

Answer 8

What a punk eh? 60 measly years of sin and you get Eternal punishment. God sure is lucky there is no Supreme Court in Heaven - they'd strike that down as CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT.

Answer 9

Read the freakin Bible -

And to the idiot girl that said all you have to do is ask for forgiveness on your deathbed - that person is surely set for hell.

I know I sound like a biggot but this is annoying, just because you don't like something you can't just refuse to believe it. I don't like having to pay bills - oh well.

There is a parable in the New Testament in which a man went to hell and could not get out.

The Catholic church has really made this a problem. Like everything else they do.

Jesus died for you - he was tortured and crucified for you. All you have to do is have faith in him and try to be like him. Then you do not have to worry about eternal fire.

Answer 10

Hell=Eternal Seperation from God,and the torment of your Soul.

Answer 11

There have been so many things in the bible that do not fit the basic teaching of Jesus, I know the roots of christianity are in vedic teachings from india. Jesus taught the same as siddha yoga and vedanta philosophy. see www.stephen-knapp/articles_to_read. this is an unbiased, factual site. As for the kingdom of God I have found that within my own heart. As for hell, I beleive it was destroyed by all the baptismal water flowing into hell. All people have unity with God in unconditional love within their hearts. NOW. they just need to awake to that. NONE WILL BE LOST, we will all return to God together, Love demands that we not leave our brother or sister behind.