How can hell be real?

Question

How can there be a hell if god is suppose to forgive you for every sin you made?

Answer 1

annihilation in hellfire is biblical. The bible says that this is reserved for the last day (judgement). When you die, you don't go anywhwere, you have to resurrect in order to get anything (you gon't actually go to hell, you resurrect and recieve it).

Answer 2

Answer: God is not "supposed to" forgive every sin you committed. In fact, God does not forget any of your sins from youth until your dieing day.

Why Hell? If you tell a lie to your teacher, you may get detention. If you tell a lie to a police officer, you may get taken down town. If you tell a lie under oath in court, you'll be punished by being taken to jail. What if you lie to a dictator of a country. He could torture you or kill you. What's the difference? They're all a single lie. The difference is whom you commit the offence against. If you tell a lie against the infinate God of the universe, what kind of fitting punishment should there be if He is Just, and you have broken His law?

How can you be forgiven? God made a single way. It has been the same way for thousands of years. It is to simply to repent of your crimes (sin) and trust in His payment for your sin through Jesus Christ. Once you do that you will be justified and forgiven. And you will enter into Heaven not as a good person, but a bad person who was forgiven by a Good God.

For those who refuse to repent and who harden their hearts, at the time of judgement in Revelation they will be cast into the lake of fire, and all of creation will worship God because He punished the criminals fairly and justly.

Answer 3

The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.

If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.

First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.

How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?

It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.

One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.

Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.

If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.

If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.

How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.

Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.

If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.

How likely is that????

Think about it.

The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.

Love and blessings
don

Source --- Course in miracles

Answer 4

If you've asked for forgiveness and if you accept the sacrifice that He made on the Cross for you then you have nothing to worry about. However, if you haven't then you need to realize that Hell was never made for anyone other than Lucifer and his followers. Alos God doesn't send anyone to Hell, They send their ownselves by not accepting His atonement for it. God is a loving God but also know that God is a just God, and justice will be served. After all, a righteous God canot condone sin.

Answer 5

The forgiveness is not automatic. When you are ready to give you life to God and turn away from your sins, you can be forgiven. A person must ask God for forgiveness and ask Jesus to become their personal to be saved. If you are saved you go to heaven and if you reject the free gift of salvation you go to hell.

Answer 6

First thing wrong: God doesn't need to forgive you.
Second thing wrong: This question is under the assumption that God is completely and always forgiving. Again, God doesn't need to forgive you.
Third thing wrong: This question attacks the existance of Hell because you assume that God NEEDS to be forgiving to everyone. If you try to follow your beliefs and be a good person, you will be spared the fire.

Answer 7

Good question Victoria!!

There isn't a hell.

God told us everything we need to know in the Bible. So if there was a hell, why wasn't it mentioned throughout the Bible instead of just the New Testament??

Because hell is not a place!! Hell is an adjective!!!

So where do humans go when they die?? (Biblically)

Sheol! Sheol is mentioned throughout the bible as a place where believers and non-believers wait after death seperated until judgment day.

Revelation says no man is judged until the end!

Answer 8

God doesn't extend forgiveness to those who don't repent. And hell isn't a place of fire and brimstone. Hell is the intense and everlasting suffering of the soul when her/she leaves this world and suddenly understands the truths of right and wrong and sin, and must face what he/she did in their time on earth.

Answer 9

Hell is misused. In the Bible it is the word used to call the grave, the place our bodies go at death. It is not a lake of fire for sins. Read the Bible, it tells us the the payment for sin is death, the grave, hell. When we die we are a sleep in the grave until the return of Jesus and then we who are died will be resurrected to life or to judgment, there's nothing in between. If you're resurrected to judgment then that's the second death, that means no more you, gone forever, forgotten. That's what the Bible teaches us.

Answer 10

Forget Heaven and Hell as places they probably don't exist here or in the hereafter. But your mind is what determines how you feel. If you try to do good thing for people you will probably feel happy... heaven. I you have done evil you will feel bad and that can be a living Hell.
Some people experience a living hell due to the actions of others or illness. Try to be a kind and understanding person, it will always tend to make you feel better about yourself.

Answer 11

I don't believe in hell. I do believe in the concept of an after death punishment maybe bad karma, being stuck in earth as a ghost and suffer for centuries, tormentation or even the destruction of the soul but as far as a permanent fiery hell, I don't believe it. So people can stop e-mailing me that I'm going to hell because no one is.
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