If God is everywhere, is he in hell?

Question

And if he is, can he see his creations spending an eternity in fire. And if he can, is he just like, "well they should have honoured me." How can God watch his creations burn for eternity? Is this your God, are you okay with this?

"Yes, I believe he is entitled to a little "you deserve this."

A little? Do you understand eternity, it's like a lifetime, but forever.

I can understand purgatory, with purgatory being like a waiting room, and on my judgement day if God was like, "you were more good than bad, you get to go to heaven, but first you have to spend 10 years in the waiting room before an eternity of awesomeness." I'd be cool with that, but an eternity of burning because I didn't follow a 5000/2000 year old book........not as much.

"do u know figurative meanings... "

Despite the fact I have a study version of the bible, it doesn't point out what to take literally, and what not to, please tell me are you the first to know line by line what is literal, like is the 7 day theory really 7 days, was the worldwide flood, really a worldwide flood, is jesus really the only hope............sigh

Answer 1

Hell is not as you think it is. Hell is total and complete seperation from God. Fire is a metaphor that expresses how one feels when he or she is seperated completely from the presence of God without the ability to chose him again. See we don't feel the full fire feeling here today as we are not seperated from God but only have the ability to belieive in him or not. If you do not chose him during this lifetime you will be seperated from him on the day of judgement.


Matt

Answer 2

False doctrines like this one about hellfire cause so much confusion among people. Hell is the common grave of mankind. Not a place of torment. People misunderstand some scriptures that refer to a lake of fire or firey pit to mean a firey hell. These are just symbolic and not literal. The bible says that when you die you know nothing, can do nothing and have no memory. Ecc 9: 5, 6, 10,11 How could you be tortured? If there were such a place as a firey hell, God would have told Adam and Eve because they would have been the first to go there. This leads to another false doctrine about the immortal soul. The bible never says the soul is immortal. The soul is you yourself. This teaching causes much confusion about when do you actually get a soul? When does it leave the body when you die? Obviously not right away because Lazarus was dead four days.
Many think the soul is resurrected on the 40 th day after death. That makes no sense either. People complicate the bible by trying to help God out.

I can also answer your question about the 7 creative days. They are not literal 24 hour days. God has a different concept of time.
Each creative day was at least 6,000 years long. We are still in the seventh day. The bible never says that the seventh day has ended. Bible geneology says that Adam was created in the year 4027. Add to that the current year of 2007 plus 1 year because there is no zero year and you get 6035 years. So it has been over 6000 years since the 7th day began. There is no reason to believe that the other 6 days were shorter.

Answer 3

In one of the Psakm's, King David said that if he made his bed in hell, God was there too. Hell is not a fire though, the fire will come later and whatever is going to be in it will burn up in an instant. Hell is separation from God, so why don't you ask all the atheists what hell is like? and why don't you do some research on your own rather than listening to ignorant people that call themselves Christians. (research Lazarus and the rich man)

Answer 4

Hell is not a place, but a condition or state of being, namely that of being completely separated from God. As God can't be separated from Himself, the answer is self-evident.
Your theology is flawed. Only those who are saved are given the gift of eternal life (one should know this just from probably the most well-known verse of the Bible - John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but shall have eternal life") - those who are not saved, "perish". The book of Malachi refers to "the ashes of the wicked". Those who willfully chose to turn away from the Source of life will be burnt UP, not roasted forever. And yeah, I'm okay with that - wouldn't want to try to live in a "Heaven" that included Hitler and Charles Manson. But even if I weren't okay with it, it's not my decision to make - I'm not God.

Answer 5

You don't think He likes to watch them burn do you? They sinned against Him and didn't accept Him into their hearts. There's no room for sin in Heaven, so they go to hell like it is written. Of course their not there yet, they will go when judgment day comes around.

Answer 6

Yes, according to the Bible. But those in hell cannot experience Him there. God doesn't enjoy it, but he pledged to honor any decision we make concerning Him. I suspect this is why people are 'cut off' from Him there.

Answer 7

Technically speaking, God would have to be in hell as well. If, however, God is half as good as I think He is, He wouldn't be able to stand to see his children suffer so horribly. Hell is a farce, and not a very good one at that.

Answer 8

Jesus went into "hell" to save the deceived.

Answer 9

Awesome question! I've been wondering this, myself, for years. Can't wait to see the answers!

Answer 10

Yes, I believe he is entitled to a little "you deserve this." His "creations" as you call them, have ridiculed and blashemed his name. And while I cry because certain of my own relations are in Hell right know, I have to know that they had millions of chances.