What is hell ?

Question

1stly God is a god of love! Would you put your sons hand in the fir because he did something wrong! God is the highest representative of love! Everyone agrees that the bible was written in both hebrew and greek, The bible was translated through hebrw ang greek scrolls. So hasn't occurred to some to do some research and look up the Hebrew word HELL B4 jus listing to traditional teachings. Hell means grave! the bible states that hell at Revelation:20:14 was hurled into the lake of fire.The bible often uses fire to mean total distruction of someting! So when it says hell was hurlesd into the lake of fire it means, that death would be no more! According to Revelation :21:3,4which says for the righteous dead will be no more! As well as if people say hell is a place for wicked then why did Jesus said at ACTS:2:27,31 Jesus said that he did not remain in hell! Meaning that he was in hell for awhile.But if hell is the grave or means death then that mean he was dead 4 a while until his ressurect

Answer 1

Hell Definition: 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).

Unending Torment or Common Grave? Since the dead have no conscious existence, hell cannot be a fiery place of torment where the wicked suffer after death. What, then, is hell? Examining what happened to Jesus after he died helps to answer that question. The Bible writer Luke recounts: “Neither was [Jesus] forsaken in Hades [hell, King James Version] nor did his flesh see corruption.” (Acts 2:31) Where was the hell to which even Jesus went? The apostle Paul wrote: “I handed on to you . . . that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, yes, that he has been raised up the third day according to the Scriptures.” (1 Corinthians 15:3, 4) So Jesus was in hell, the grave, but he was not abandoned there, for he was raised up, or resurrected. Consider also the case of the righteous man Job, who suffered much. Wishing to escape his plight, he pleaded: “Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell [Sheol], and hide me till thy wrath pass?” (Job 14:13, Douay Version) How unreasonable to think that Job desired to go to a fiery-hot place for protection! To Job, “hell” was simply the grave, where his suffering would end. The Bible hell, then, is the common grave of mankind where good people as well as bad ones go.

Hell Emptied! Revelation 20:13 states: “The sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Hades gave up those dead in them.” Yes, the Bible hell will be emptied. As Jesus promised, “the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear [Jesus’] voice and come out.” (John 5:28, 29) Although no longer presently existing in any form, millions of dead ones who are in Jehovah God’s memory will be resurrected, or brought back to life, in a restored earthly paradise.—Luke 23:43; Acts 24:15.
In the new world of God’s making, resurrected humans who comply with his righteous laws will never need to die again. (Isaiah 25:8) Jehovah “will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore.” In fact, “the former things [will] have passed away.” (Revelation 21:4) What a blessing is in store for those in hell—“the memorial tombs”! This blessing indeed is reason enough for us to take in more knowledge of Jehovah God and his Son, Jesus Christ.—John 17:3.

Answer 2

Hell in the bible - is the grave. It is not a literal place or located in a certain location. If it was there would be ONE common grave for mankind and people would have to be transported to this location. Logically, that would be impossible. Hell is not a place of torment nor are people in pain. Read Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 10. The bible says the living are conscious that they will die, but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all. Nor does the thought that some sort of people go to hell - all go to the same place the grave. For more information about hell check out this website - www.jw.org

Answer 3

The Bible Describes Hell
There are three words translated “Hell” in Scripture:
Gehenna (Greek): The place of punishment (Matthew 5:22,29; 10:28; and James 3:6)
Hades (Greek): The abode of the dead (Matthew 11:23; 16:18; Luke 16:23; Acts 2:27)
Sheol (Hebrew): The grave (Psalm 9:17; 16:10)
There are those who accept that Hell is a place of punishment, but believe that the punishment is to be annihilated—to cease conscious existence. They can’t conceive that the punishment of the wicked will be conscious and eternal. If they are correct, then a man like Adolph Hitler, who was responsible for the deaths of millions, is being “punished” merely with eternal sleep. His fate is simply to return to the non-existent state he was in before he was born, where he doesn’t even know that he is being punished.
However, Scripture paints a different story. The rich man who found himself in Hell (Luke 16:19-31) was conscious. He was able to feel pain, to thirst, and to experience remorse. He wasn’t asleep in the grave; he was in a place of “torment.” If Hell is a place of knowing nothing or a reference to the grave into which we go at death, Jesus’ statements about Hell make no sense. He said that if your hand, foot, or eye causes you to sin, it would be better to remove it than to “go into Hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:43-48).
The Bible refers to the fate of the unsaved with such fearful words as the following:
“Shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2)
“Everlasting punishment” (Matthew 25:46)
“Weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 24:51)
“Fire unquenchable” (Luke 3:17)
“Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish” (Romans 2:8,9)
“Everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord” (2 Thessalonians 1:9)
“Eternal fire...the blackness of darkness for ever” (Jude 7,13)
Revelation 14:10,11 tells us the final, eternal destiny of the sinner: “He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone...the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day or night."

Answer 4

Hey Just me! How are you? It appears our bibles are not exactly in the same words in Acts. Or you misquoted it. Hell is a RESULT which is death. So Hell can be interpreted as death. Think J.M. If hell is death and He said he didn't remain in hell that means He didn't stay dead! Get it ? It meant he was dead for a while but didn't stay dead,remember he resurrected wasn't He ?
He was dead 3 days and while he was dead he taught His salvation to those who died before He was born. And many were saved. It seems you have a pretty good handle on this precept.
congratulations

Answer 5

"We will have experience of God's spirit through His Prophets in the next world, but God is too great for us to know without this Intermediary. The Prophets know God, but how is more than our human minds can grasp. We believe we may attain in the next world to seeing the Prophets. There is certainly a future life. Heaven and hell are conditions within our own beings."

Answer 6

My thoughts are that Hell has this phenomenal marketing department that has painted it as a place where it's all about eternal torment, just to keep the Christians out. They just didn't want to put up with the constant proselytizing, and it would keep up property values as well.

I think Hell is actually a combination of Vegas, Cancun, Waimea Bay, and tons of championship golf courses. Happy hour lasts 24 hours a day. You can still smoke in bars. 80 degrees everyday. Awesome surf, with 70 degree water so you don't have to wear a wet suit. And the beaches, topless of course, who needs modesty?

Answer 7

Hell is NOT 'eternal separation from God', God is everywhere and in the presence of those in the lake of fire we are told in Rev, so obviously this is an unscriptural lie. Hell we are told in Rev gets thrown INTO the lake of fire, so obviously they are not synonymous....here is what HELL IS....it's radical to a mainstream Christian's understanding as it was to my own understanding years ago....I hope you can receive it, it's such a blessing.

http://bible-truths.com/lake16-A.html

CLIFFS: Yes, it means 'GRAVE'

excerpt from above link, keep in mind when Hell is used in the KJV translation in the OT (wrongly), it is translated from the Hebrew word SHEOL:

15. "Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave [Heb: sheol]"(Psalm 31:17).

Well, so much for all the supposed cries of anguish in sheol. David knew that sheol was a place of complete "silence."

16 & 17. "Like sheep they are laid in the grave [Heb: sheol]; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave [Heb: sheol] from their dwelling" (Psalm 49:14).

There is "death" in the grave (sheol). There is not living torture in fire.

18. "But God will REDEEM MY SOUL from the power of the grave [Heb: sheol]: for he shall receive me. Selah" (Psalm 49:15).

Well there you have it! Souls can be "redeemed from the power of sheol"! No eternal torture in fire where souls can and will be "REDEEMED"! It should be self-explanatory as to why the translators didn’t translate this particular "sheol" into the English word "hell." They sure didn’t want anyone to know that souls will be "redeemed from hell." !!!!

Read the links for hundreds of more proofs of Hell not being as classified in popular Christian theological circles. Praise God for that!

Answer 8

Eternal separation from God.

God is Love.

No. I would not put my son's hand in the fire, but there have been times, when he did not listen to me, and got burned.

After Christ returns, all who are in Hell will be tossed into the Lake of Fire (after Satan and his angels).

The Lake of Fire is different from Hell. It is eternal suffering of the worst kind.

Answer 9

It's a town in Southwest Missouri.

Answer 10

Hell is...misunderstood