what are your views on hell?what would it be like?and what goes on?

Question

i mean i bealive in heaven and hell, when i think of heaven i think of the wonderfull lives and extreme happynes but what would hell look like and what would you be doing after being there for 100s of 1000s of years

Answer 1

I don't believe in HELL as a physical place, as in the "lake of fire." I believe Hell is a state of consciousness where one feels remorse, self-condemnation, guilt and frustration. I believe the "lake of fire" is the subconscious mind's area of repression, the "id". I believe that "Satan" is the force of self-centeredness, self-gratification, self-indulgence, self-importance, self-righteousness, self-consciousness, self-glorification, self-delusion, self-condemnation, self, ego, the "false god," the "beast".

I believe one stays in "hell" for as long as they refuse to accept accountability for their ill thought out causes (actions).

Answer 2

I don't think Hell is a place you go and hang out in to be tormented for ever and ever. The Bible says people are sent to Hell for destruction, so I think you go to hell to be thrown into the lake of fire and be destroyed, i.e. cease to exist. The choices are death or eternal life. I don't think it makes sense for hell to be a place where you live forever (and I've read the Bible a lot of times to come to the conclusion that this is what it says, I didn't just pull this out of my butt) because that would still be eternal life, just one that really sucks.

But whatever you believe goes on, Heaven = good, Hell = bad. I don't think this is a salvation issue because either way Hell is not the escalator you want to be taking on judgment day.

Answer 3

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 25:46)

Answer 4

Why is there confusion as to what the Bible says about hell?

“Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception.”—The Encyclopedia Americana (1942), Vol. XIV, p. 81.

Translators have allowed their personal beliefs to color their work instead of being consistent in their rendering of the original-language words. For example: (1) The King James Version rendered she’ohl′ as “hell,” “the grave,” and “the pit”; hai′des is therein rendered both “hell” and “grave”; ge′en·na is also translated “hell.” (2) Today’s English Version transliterates hai′des as “Hades” and also renders it as “hell” and “the world of the dead.” But besides rendering “hell” from hai′des it uses that same translation for ge′en·na. (3) The Jerusalem Bible transliterates hai′des six times, but in other passages it translates it as “hell” and as “the underworld.” It also translates ge′en·na as “hell,” as it does hai′des in two instances. Thus the exact meanings of the original-language words have been obscured.

There are many scriptures that explain this thought. One just needs to see them for them self.

For example:

The Bible says: “As the [beast] dies, so the [man] dies; and they all have but ONE spirit . . . All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are ALL returning to the dust.” (Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20)

This means that the idea of a soul and "spirit" are the same in not accurate.

The original-language terms (Heb., ne′phesh [?פנ]; Gr., psy·khe′ [ψυχή]) as used in the Scriptures show “soul” to be a person, an animal, or the life that a person or an animal enjoys.

The connotations that the English “soul” commonly carries in the minds of most persons are not in agreement with the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words as used by the inspired Bible writers. This fact has steadily gained wider acknowledgment. Back in 1897, in the Journal of Biblical Literature (Vol. XVI, p. 30), Professor C. A. Briggs, as a result of detailed analysis of the use of ne′phesh, observed: “Soul in English usage at the present time conveys usually a very different meaning from שפנ [ne′phesh] in Hebrew, and it is easy for the incautious reader to misinterpret.”

More recently, when The Jewish Publication Society of America issued a new translation of the Torah, or first five books of the Bible, the editor-in-chief, H. M. Orlinsky of Hebrew Union College, stated that the word “soul” had been virtually eliminated from this translation because, “the Hebrew word in question here is ‘Nefesh.’” He added: “Other translators have interpreted it to mean ‘soul,’ which is completely inaccurate. The Bible does not say we have a soul. ‘Nefesh’ is the person himself, his need for food, the very blood in his veins, his being.”—The New York Times, October 12, 1962.

Answer 5

i opened my eyes and beheld a barren waste land, i looked up in the sky, and i beheld a spirit being. I am only ONE witness of ONE version of what Hell can be like.
but i have heard several testimonies of people who die, and come back and have described several different varieties of Hell is.
For some there is the Lake of Fire. for others there Hell, and yet even the bible declares that men can be in torment in the presense of angels, Outer darkness is NOT a lake of fire but thats where ALL sons of perdition will go.
there is no doubt that Hell can be anything where punishment and justice is given to those spirit beings that lived and died GO. but when a Sunday school baptist dies while riding her bike home and she testifies of all the things she saw being in hell, are true words of her experience than you have to know there is something that is destined for those that are not repentant or who are criminals.
I know another man who tried to commit suicide by eating a bottle of asprin or some other drugs and ended up in a place he described as a place of torment with whips and Rock N roll playing on the sky. He came back to life I think because he called upon the name of jesus.
I know of another mans testimony where he died in a hospital room and walked around but then his veiw of the hospital changed as Demons started tearing at his flesh as they tried to drag him down to hell,
the variations of hell have many different aspects, but then again there are biblical verses that say there are 3 heavens and again it says elsewhere that there are 7 heavens.

Answer 6

Heaven and Hell are all around us. We make our own version of each. Afterall what would be a worse Hell than what is in the dark recesses of our mind that only we can reach. Heaven is attainable if we allow ourselves to find it within ourselves.

Be careful of your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words.
Be careful of your words,
Your words become your actions.
Be careful of your actions,
Your actions become your character.
Be careful of your character,
Your character becomes your destiny.

Answer 7

This human Life given by God to us is a blessing and for us to make our selves better to reach him(GOD)
Heaven & Hell are nothing but verbal diffrential of the type of life one leads.Both Heaven & Hell are on the earth itself as we expirience it in our daily life.For example you are aparent with healthy and well educated /setteled children and so are their children that means you are in the heaven with all the health wealth and happiness for you self and you family. Or say that you are not a good parent and have children who are not doing well and are used to drugs and drink/smoke /unhealthy and are very poor in charecter /morale,let us say telling lies and robing people and inconvinenceing other people with their deeds for which the socity does not respect you or your family and come to your rescue in time of need which means you are in the helI, I do not know how eles as to clarify your doubt, this is as I see it . Help other and others will help you in time of need As HEAVEN AND HELL both of them are on the earth itself. You will have good friends and family who are healthy/happy & prosporus and are willing to help you for what you are in as a person and not seeing your wealth/cast /creed/breed/religionand colour.

Answer 8

Do not listen to seren aron he is blind. Hell is real. There is a book out at the moment a true story about a guy who went to Hell in reality and came back to preach to people all over the world on how to avoid that place of horror. He experienced demons that were mocking him and God and all the dammed souls. He experienced the extreeme heat and woudered why he did not die, as it was so hot, and he endured thirst like he had never experienced before and billions of souls were screaming out for water and mercy and it is a frightning place so horrible you cannot even begin to imagine. I will give you a site to go to on you google engine put in "23 minutes in Hell" by a guy called Bill Wiese and you can listen to it on the internet. Be prepared it will shock you like it did me. It is a true story. Please go and put in 23 minutes in Hell in your google.

Answer 9

I wonder if hell is just a place where everyone there knows what they have missed out on, everyone is only out for themselves and very lonely and depressed, and in denial for the rest of eternity.

Answer 10

It is like ignorance in any man:observe it in you. See what is the result of your ignorant action. If you are not ignorant, observe the result of ignorant actions performed by other people.
It is more serious with the soul: it is complete lack of the knowledge of the One True God due to refusal to learn and practice His divine counsels.