2007-02-12 13:02:58 · 16 answers · asked by toiletseat 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please see this Google video; it will help explain:
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2007-02-12 13:06:39 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word hell is the English translation of the Hebrew word sheol. Sheol is the dwelling place of the dead. Yes there is hell; however, it is not an eternal place of tourture or fire. It is the grave. Therefore, in a sense it is both spiritual and physical. The body and soul are asleep. The soul awaits rebirth.
2007-02-12 21:06:20 · answer #2 · answered by Jen of Eve 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell is the Grave (sheol), there is no eternal place of punishing described in the Bible. There is such a thing as Ghenna fire but it will consume the wicked and they will die, not live there forever.
Hell was created by the poet Dante. Dante's Inferno is not scriptural.
Our Heavenly Father gave us the choice of life or death. Death means dead - not living in Hell.
2007-02-12 21:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by Obed (original) 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ultimate hell is the *Lake of Fire|*
It is a realm in the |sphere of existence| of utter, absolute, infinite, total, and eternal destruction|
It is pure and subsistent chaos where all order and all the laws of reality break down|
It is subsitent unintelligibly and idiocy|
It is eternal death proper, where one's consciousness turns to *complete white noise,* with no differentiation between self and other, or between past present and future|
It is consciousness without content, likened to the snow or the white noise that one receives on the TV or radio when it is tuned into nothing|
It is the *nirvana* of the Eastern mystics| - which is *pure void* where one exists and doesn't exist at the same time|
It says in the Bible that the hell of torment (hades or the nether world), will in the end, itself, be cast into the Lake of Fire|
"Then death and the nether world were hurled into the pool of fire; anyone whose name was not found in the book of the living was hurled into this pool of fire." (Rev. 20:14-15)|
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2007-02-12 21:18:22 · answer #4 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell is spiritual. Our bodies stay here until the Resurrection of the dead.
2007-02-12 21:06:14 · answer #5 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess hell is a spiritual sense, as your body stays on Earth, waiting to slowly rot away. Wow...Thats probably one of my shortest answers...
2007-02-12 21:06:36 · answer #6 · answered by CICROCKETS 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both - spiritual and physical, and unless it were as we're told in the religion, nobody would have paid any heed.
2007-02-12 21:09:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, hell is a mental place. It is an idea and as such pure essence of thought.
2007-02-12 21:05:06 · answer #8 · answered by littlemrsquirrelboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it is said that your soul will burn there. If your soul will burn there then it must be Spiritual, which can be a REAL place but not Physical..
2007-02-12 21:06:45 · answer #9 · answered by fastfreedombailbonds 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not positive.
I am interested in the theory that earth is hell and we are all forgiven at death
2007-02-12 21:25:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. It is an imaginative one. Like Naboo, or Hoth, or Narnia, or any other fictional land.
2007-02-12 21:06:54 · answer #11 · answered by Kinda_lonely 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋