just a general wonderment cant find the information about god creating hell. if god didnt create hell then who did and if god created everything else can it be assumed god lived in hell prior to creating everything else?
2007-01-02 13:46:44 · 21 answers · asked by fiddich59 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Probably the day I first met my ex.
2007-01-02 13:48:52 · answer #1 · answered by castle h 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Wow...very nice. Never thought about that..Not that I'm a real bible readers or anything, but I just never thought about god creating hell. I'm sure someone is going to say that humans themselves and where we live his hell.
I've said this so many times that it's all about control. If there was no heaven or hell, people would not feel the need to follow the "rules" of the bible or the church (remember purgatory? that was total bullshit that the church made up...and indulgences--things you could buy to get a loved one out of purgatory?? Just to make money. It was sad. Indulgences are over with now, but I still like to bring them up to show how greedy the church was. ANYWAY..)
So, in religion there needed to be a hell. Who created, I don't know.
Sorry for the pointless tangent. :(
Edit--
Wow, never knew that the bible said that. Those are some great answers up there! Learn something new every day. :)
2007-01-02 21:52:44 · answer #2 · answered by Kitty Kat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The meaning given today to the word “hell” is that portrayed in Dante’s Divine Comedy and Milton’s Paradise Lost, which meaning is completely foreign to the original definition of the word. The idea of a “hell” of fiery torment, however, dates back long before Dante or Milton. The Grolier Universal Encyclopedia (1971, Vol. 9, p. 205) under “Hell” says: “Hindus and Buddhists regard hell as a place of spiritual cleansing and final restoration. Islamic tradition considers it as a place of everlasting punishment.” The idea of suffering after death is found among the pagan religious teachings of ancient peoples in Babylon and Egypt. Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs depicted the “nether world . . . as a place full of horrors, . . . presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.” Although ancient Egyptian religious texts do not teach that the burning of any individual victim would go on forever, they do portray the “Other World” as featuring “pits of fire” for “the damned.”—The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Morris Jastrow, Jr., 1898, p. 581; The Book of the Dead, with introduction by E. Wallis Budge, 1960, pp. 135, 144, 149, 151, 153, 161, 200.
2007-01-02 21:53:06 · answer #3 · answered by papa G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The One True God creates heaven and hell, reward and punishment along with the law of cause and effect from the immemorial time.
Each word in this senrence is interpreted differently by preachers of various religions. Some are reasonable, others are ridiculous.
Mature men today can seek for the truth by their reading of the Holy Books on the Internet.
2007-01-02 21:57:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Man created Hell, not God. Look up the word, History.
2007-01-02 21:50:12 · answer #5 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gen 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
earth is hell in the ground, buried. hell is also a condition. Look around you. Satan is not in hell yet. So how can anyone else be there.
2007-01-02 21:51:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no mention of the day. I would imagine it was created after the fall of Satan and his followers. That day is not mentioned either. A very, very long time ago.
Yes, God did create it. At first only for the above mentioned.
No. God never lived there. Do not assume, see what it makes out of you and the person it is directed to.
2007-01-02 21:54:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many theologists believe Hell was created prior to everything else. Though, I personally believe Hell exists on Earth in the form of a good ol' karmic slap. :-)
2007-01-02 21:50:06 · answer #8 · answered by Wisdom Lies in the Heart 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say that there was no place created until after Satan tempted Eve and sin came into the world, before then, there was no need for hell, because Satan was cast to he Earth, not a place called hell. Might have been after the Nephilim Gen. 6.
2007-01-02 21:50:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same day God created earth. Buddhist idea of hell is really this earth.
2007-01-02 21:58:30 · answer #10 · answered by Frontal Lobe 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Paraphrased from the link below:
The Bible doesn’t say when hell was created, but it does say why; for the devil and his angels (ref. Matthew 25:41). Because they rebelled against God (ie, they sinned), they had to be separated permanently from heaven because God cannot tolerate sin in Heaven.
In the Judeo-Christian world view, we die spiritually when we sin because sin separates us from God and we no longer have fellowship with Him. Eternal death is not annihilation, but eternal separation from God, symbolized by God saying "Depart from me ye cursed…" (ref. Matt. 25:41).
2007-01-02 22:03:14 · answer #11 · answered by jims2cents 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋