Is hell a creation of man and not of God?

Answer 1

Yes, there is nothing in the Bible that speaks of hell. It's a creation of man.

Even heaven is barely discussed in the Bible and has little resemblence to today's view of heaven.

Answer 2

If you're a Judeo-Christian and believe the Old Testament, it's a creation of God. The basic story is that Lucifer led a rebellion of angels and after defeating them, God created Hell to hold them.

But if you're asking outside the Judeo-Christian belief system, I firmly believe that Hell as we envision it is a creation of man (with extra points going to Dante for "The Inferno"). Personally, I think a lot of people walking around right now are already in hells of their own making.

Answer 3

first off I believe in God, I read all of the other post that mention Judea
Christian as for all of the Jewish people I spoke to they do not have a hell, what there hell is separation from the Lord God. I think that man created hell just as the Catholic Religion tried to create purgatory.
But since I want to touch the face of God. I try and do the right thing every day. I think that's all God wants us to do. Is live our life's to the fullest. and do good.

Answer 4

The Bible Describes Hell
There are three words translated “Hell” in Scripture:
Gehenna (Greek): The place of punishment (Matthew 5:22,29; 10:28; and James 3:6)
Hades (Greek): The abode of the dead (Matthew 11:23; 16:18; Luke 16:23; Acts 2:27)
Sheol (Hebrew): The grave (Psalm 9:17; 16:10)
There are those who accept that Hell is a place of punishment, but believe that the punishment is to be annihilated—to cease conscious existence. They can’t conceive that the punishment of the wicked will be conscious and eternal. If they are correct, then a man like Adolph Hitler, who was responsible for the deaths of millions, is being “punished” merely with eternal sleep. His fate is simply to return to the non-existent state he was in before he was born, where he doesn’t even know that he is being punished.
However, Scripture paints a different story. The rich man who found himself in Hell (Luke 16:19-31) was conscious. He was able to feel pain, to thirst, and to experience remorse. He wasn’t asleep in the grave; he was in a place of “torment.” If Hell is a place of knowing nothing or a reference to the grave into which we go at death, Jesus’ statements about Hell make no sense. He said that if your hand, foot, or eye causes you to sin, it would be better to remove it than to “go into Hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:43-48).
The Bible refers to the fate of the unsaved with such fearful words as the following:
“Shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2)
“Everlasting punishment” (Matthew 25:46)
“Weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 24:51)
“Fire unquenchable” (Luke 3:17)
“Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish” (Romans 2:8,9)
“Everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord” (2 Thessalonians 1:9)
“Eternal fire...the blackness of darkness for ever” (Jude 7,13)
Revelation 14:10,11 tells us the final, eternal destiny of the sinner: “He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone...the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day or night."

Answer 5

Hell is creation of God, to punish ones that did bad things on earth.

Answer 6

Technically, it was supposed to be the creation of he who was cast out of heaven, because that story is when it first appears in teh bible. However the concept predates Judeo-Christianity as far as a fiery underworld of the dead and torment goes. technically all things in the Universe are supposed to be of God's creation, but every human defines their own heaven or hell one way or another.

Answer 7

If you think about, most religions are creations of man. We won't know if it's real or just something man created to stir up fear and make people believe in God unless we go there.. if it's there.

Answer 8

sure as hell is,
hell was not added into the bible untill the early middle ages,

ofcourse it said that it had been there all the time ,but you can make words say anything you like
and God was also an invention of Man and probably the anunaki as well,and the brainwashing tool was continued by the illuminati,so that they could keep controlling the masses

Answer 9

Let me try to explain it to you in this way............... All that hell means is a common everyday grave. Hell is just a hole in the ground that grave diggers puts coffins into... The Catholic Church are the ones that change that name to mean a place of purgatory or where you suffer or wait in limbo.. What the Catholic Church is stating is not even biblical. And the only place you can find that writing is in the works of the Catholic Church.......................... So the way hell is describe is a creation of mankind and not God........................................

Answer 10

This is an answer you have to find on your own. There is no way to prove the existence of hell, heaven, god or the devil. No matter what evidence anyone provides - there is never enough, until you yourself has died.