you will be able to see Heaven and all of its Glory and there will be nothing you can do about it?
2007-01-19 07:09:46 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you for that pleasant comment.
(scare tactics are sooo old)
2007-01-19 07:14:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
No one will be frying in the lake of fire. It is a figurative reference to the fires of Gehenna which were first used for ritual sacrifices until Israel captured them with God's help. Then they were told of God to keep the fires burning as a symbol, and they were told to burn the refuse in those fires. This symbolically represents the burning of refuse and chaff that will be done at the end when the adversary and his minions are destroyed. Hence the figure of speech. But it refers to the second death as being the purging of the refuse.
You see, in the bible fire represent cleansing and victory. Which is what this figure of speech is telling us.
As for heaven. As I have explained elsewhere, the word heaven is often wrongly translated from the word meaning paradise which is a place on earth. The actual word heaven in the bible when used correctly speaks of the heavens (kosmos).
2007-01-19 07:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by ManoGod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, since I have a medical condition that makes me always cold - even in summer if the temperature drops below 70 - I'm sure I'll be too busy basking in the warmth of the firey lake (I happen to love water, too) to even notice heaven.
)O(
2007-01-19 07:16:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You mean, I won't be able to go to the place where Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Ann Coulter are supposedly going? Gosh, I'm tearing up at the thought...
2007-01-19 07:20:58 · answer #4 · answered by . 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
But if you were frying in a lake of fire that would mean that God was a moron so I would not want to be in heaven with a moron God anyway.
love and blessings Don
2007-01-19 07:13:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
If you believe that, shouldn't you stop sinning? Instead of getting your nose in our salvation,perhaps you should take a more agressive stance against your own charecter defects.
2007-01-19 07:20:25 · answer #6 · answered by boatworker 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What if our existence now really is the lake of fire, and we are being punished for worshipping the wrong god in our previous life?
2007-01-19 07:12:43 · answer #7 · answered by wheresdean 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
GOOD. The absolute LAST place I would want to spend eternity is with an evil killer God who drowns and slaughters babies, commands his followers to kidnap, enslave, torture, rape, abort, and kill people, and who sends his own kid to be beaten and executed so to appease himself. That God is downright SICK and WAY beneath my moral standards. I am thrilled that I will have a constant reminder of how lucky I am to not be anywhere near him and his sheep.
2007-01-19 07:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by gelfling 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good, I'll have all of eternity to relish the memories of how I spent my time on earth enjoying my life, not dedicating it to the ideas of how people 2000 years ago thought I should live it.
2007-01-19 07:13:48 · answer #9 · answered by Jersey Giant 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It says in the Bible that God is "not willing that any should perish" Damnation isn't something that God looks forward to, but an unrepentant world forced His hand, so to speak. So how Christ-like do you think he will think your gloating is. Discipleship shouldn't be about avoiding Hell, it should be about thanking God.
2007-01-19 07:24:23 · answer #10 · answered by wolfmankav 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
hmmm....can heaven see hell?
will those in heaven be able to see their loved ones burning forever?
Or, is it just another sick twist of torture from your god that only those in hell will see heaven?
2007-01-19 07:12:54 · answer #11 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 11⤊ 1⤋