2007-02-01 23:07:19 · 31 answers · asked by los 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Heaven and hell exist right here in this present moment. Clinging, desire, greed are the ways of hell. Giving no rise or fall to these things is heaven.
And yes, they are connected, they are mutually dependent. There is no light without dark nor up without down. laws of duality.
2007-02-01 23:52:23 · answer #1 · answered by guy o 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have to remember that the Bible was written so people without our level of cosmology would be able to understand it. When I read the Biblical descriptions of Heaven and Hell, I visualise an alternate dimension, possibly two. However the Bible says that the occupants of the one can see the occupants of the other but that there's an uncrossable barrier, a chasm if you like. We won't know for sure until we leave this life, what - if anything - awaits us.
2007-02-02 14:41:11 · answer #2 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is located in the upper regions of our egg-shaped universe.
Hell is located in the lower part of the universe.
The connection between them is the earthly planet, where one can perfrom karma (fruitive activity) and enjoy or suffer the reactions in the respective region.
This is a simple schema though. There are many dimensions in the Universe and there exist a hyperlink between them.
2007-02-02 10:42:47 · answer #3 · answered by aumklim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell..is trying to get the wee man to do the business Heaven...is when I have suceeded. Location anywhere between the kitchen table and the bedroom. Yes they're connected by the stairs.
2007-02-02 07:16:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you dig a hole in the Earth deep enough you will fall through, and then you'll fall in hell (or the underworld as the ancient greeks and romans called it.
If you go up in the sky you get into heaven, the stars are just little holes in the firmament, the celestial light is seen through them.
Don't believe those heathens that say that the Earth is round (just look, it's clear the earth is flat!) and that people have gone into to the moon and stars are suns or whatever lightyears away.. All that scientific gibberish
2007-02-02 07:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by Steven Z 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As you know, this is a loaded question, as it presupposes that there is a such thing as heaven and hell. With that said, Milton provides a good answer, inferable from his renowned Paradise Lost. Milton posited that hell was the absence of God and his grace. So, hell is not a positively horrible place, with demons and minions prodding you at you with pitch forks (an illustration that never occurs in the Bible but has its origin in Dante's Inferno). Rather, hell is the absence of God and his forgiveness. But, because God's presence doesn't permeate into hell, it is a terrible and woeful place to be. On the other hand, heaven is thought to be where one goes when one dies if he or she accepts God'd grace. Described as a place imbued with love and content, it is where we all want to go. I don't think I would necesarilly ascribe geographic locations to heaven and hell; to me, they are best thought of as heuristic devices for keeping our world orderly. But for Christians, they are thought of as real places (though perhaps intangible or incorporeal) where one's soul resides. If one accepted the grace of Jesus, he or she ingresses into Heaven, and if not, to hell. Notably, almost all cultures have some idea of an afterlife whose nature will depend on one's worldly action. That is, if you're good, you get a good afterlife; if you're bad, you are destined to be punished. This position makes sense (though, all must concede, there is a lack or at least a paucity of empirical proof for this proposition). Marx is often quoted to cast doubt onto the existence of religious notions of heaven and hell or similar concepts. He thought religion was manufactured by the elites in order to serve as an "opiate of the masses"- to keep them in line.
2007-02-02 19:09:12 · answer #6 · answered by John Tiggity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a very few Milli-seconds' journey time away from each other and very much within an individual !
Most people oscillate frequently, frequenting in both, quite unawares, and helplessly.
There is still a choice to get firmly rooted in either of them, and such choice needs deeper level of perception, way beyond just the sense organs !
2007-02-02 10:35:10 · answer #7 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No locational maps are available.They are connected by the virtue of being made for humans .We will be brought to each so don't worry about location just focus's on the actions.
2007-02-02 07:43:47 · answer #8 · answered by kalabalu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is just off junction 22 of the M25 and Hell is off of Junction 9 of the M1 - just follow the signs
2007-02-02 07:11:47 · answer #9 · answered by Carl N 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course they are connected, since they are the same place. You can make your existence hellish or heavenly by your outlook.
If you live in fear, lack trust or confidence in yourself and assume the worst of everyone, how hellish must that be?
And if you appreciate what you have, enjoy small pleasures and the company of others, how great could that be?
The world around you doesn't change. It's all in your head. That's the connection.
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2007-02-03 17:40:09 · answer #10 · answered by Nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋