Your beliefs on hell?

Question

Are there different levels in hell ? is the lowest level seclusion?

Answer 1

I believe hell is right here on earth. The lowest level would be being isolated and lonely which happens here on earth, I think that some people are killing themselves and it's so wrong, I wish ppl could see there is a better way

Answer 2

IN ITS original languages, the Bible uses the Hebrew word she’ohl′ and its Greek equivalent hai′des more than 70 times. Both words are related to death. Some Bible translations render them as “grave,” “hell,” or “pit.” However, in most languages there are no words that convey the precise sense of these Hebrew and Greek words. The New World Translation therefore uses the words “Sheol” and “Hades.” What do these words really mean? Let us note how they are used in different Bible passages.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 states: “There is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.” Does this mean that Sheol refers to a specific, or individual, grave site where we may have buried a loved one? No. When the Bible refers to a specific burial place, or grave, it uses other Hebrew and Greek words, not she’ohl′ and hai′des. (Genesis 23:7-9; Matthew 28:1) Also, the Bible does not use the word “Sheol” for a grave where several individuals are buried together, such as a family grave or a mass grave.—Genesis 49:30, 31.

To what kind of place, then, does “Sheol” refer? God’s Word indicates that “Sheol,” or “Hades,” refers to something much more than even a large mass grave. For instance, Isaiah 5:14 notes that Sheol is “spacious and has opened its mouth wide beyond bounds.” Although Sheol has already swallowed, so to speak, countless dead people, it always seems to hunger for more. (Proverbs 30:15, 16) Unlike any literal burial site, which can hold only a limited number of the dead, “Sheol and the place of destruction themselves do not get satisfied.” (Proverbs 27:20) Sheol never becomes full. It has no limits. Sheol, or Hades, is thus not a literal place in a specific location. Rather, it is the common grave of dead mankind, the figurative location where most of mankind sleep in death.

The Bible teaching of the resurrection helps us to gain further insight into the meaning of “Sheol” and “Hades.” God’s Word associates Sheol and Hades with the sort of death from which there will be a resurrection. (Job 14:13; Acts 2:31; Revelation 20:13) God’s Word also shows that those in Sheol, or Hades, include not only those who have served Jehovah but also many who have not served him. (Genesis 37:35; Psalm 55:15) Therefore, the Bible teaches that there will be “a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”—Acts 24:15.

Footnote

In contrast, the dead who will not be raised are described as being, not in Sheol, or Hades, but “in Gehenna.” (Matthew 5:30; 10:28; 23:33) Like Sheol and Hades, Gehenna is not a literal place.

Answer 3

The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she’ohl´ and its Greek equivalent hai´des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge´en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction. However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished (and some believe that this is with torment).

Answer 4

I think different people have different experiences there depending on their sins. I think there is a universal law in place for people to get back what they put out if they do not ask God for forgiveness and try to live good lives. I believe that hell is not meant to be permanent for anyone even though the bible says it is forever because in the afterlife there is no time at all so just a brief moment is pretty much an eternity. I think if anyone in hell can have enough love in their heart to love Jesus and ask him for help he will rescue them. The bible never says there is a deadline to get saved. It only suggests that you do it while you are alive and able.

Answer 5

It is a really good question. I am not positive there really is a hell, or heaven. For most of us it is a belief in a higher being or something called faith.

That keeps most of us bein good instead of bad. It is the fear of hell or the fear of the loss of heaven that keeps us going.

I do know one thing for sure. If you do really believe in heaven and hell and act accordingly (being good) you are going to be a much better person here on earth and have a lot more friends than someone who doesn't believe.

Hope to see you in heaven.

Answer 6

The degree of punishment will be commensurate with one's sin against the light which one has received.
One good passage that indicated degrees of punishment is Luke 12:47-48: "That servant who know his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be BEATEN WITH MANY BLOWS. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be BEATEN WITH FEW BLOWS. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked". Other verses on this issue include MAT 10:15; 16:27; Rev. 20:12,13; 22:12.
Jesus affirmed that the wicked "will go away to ETERNAL punishment, but the righteous to ETERNAL life" (Mat 25:460

Answer 7

A lot of people say there are different levels of hell and such, some believe this because of scripture, others because of Dante's inferno. I personally think that Hell is just the absence of God.

Answer 8

There are 2 distinctive innovations: a million. The "place of the lifeless." yet, because of the fact the lifeless are actually not something, it fairly is not an definitely place. The Bible makes use of hearth imagery, yet, hearth is used to get rid of rubbish, so, it fairly is a destroyer, and purifier. in this concept, at dying, you the two stay consistently in Heaver, or, you die, physique, and soul. "Hell" is this destruction of the soul, it is consistently. 2. Hell as a place of eternal torture, the place sinners go through because of the fact of their sins. the innovations for this version of Hell come generally from Revelation, yet, this e book is an Apocalypse, and hence written intentionally in symbolic language. an somewhat literal reading of it effects interior the burning pit of hearth, and punishment concept. The 2d version has a tendency to be supported by using greater Fundamentalist Christians, and #a million by using greater "intense church" Christians.

Answer 9

Contrary to popular beliefs concerning "hell" as being a place of torment, so when a soul dies, they are conscious of nothing at all.--Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10. When we die, we can't feel pain or be tormented. "Hell" is mankind's common grave.

Answer 10

There is no hell, just as there is no heaven. They are states of mind. We all gravitate in spirit form to the level we have fitted our own soul/spirit to occupy. We learn and grow in spirituality and it places us on the level best suited to our own spirituality.