2007-02-25 13:13:25 · 17 answers · asked by Girl Machine 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not only Christians, Jews and Muslims, but almost every religion, including ones which predate the "big three".
It clearly predates both the Bible and the Ancient Greeks.
2007-02-25 13:23:56 · update #1
its symbolic.
the sky is were the warm sun comes from, happy little clouds, chirping birds, cool breezes. but the ground is fark...dirty. thats where the rotting things are....poop, bugs, worms. dead things.
obviously god doesent live there....he lives where its nice and clean and....white.....and the devil....well we dont like him so he lives in the ground where its dirty and dark and dank.
as you can see its pretty cnildish. ask any child and i pretty much guarantee theyll tell you the same thing.
2007-02-25 13:17:06 · answer #1 · answered by johnny.zondo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The life giving sun is "up," the life giving rain fall from "up," the moon that keeps the shadows at bay and the stars that make night familiar are "up." Also, if you were a god watching your followers, would you do it from beneath the earth, guessing what action prompted each thud, or would you sit in the heavens and have a birds eye view?
Hell is a new concept in religion. Hades was in charge of the underworld, but the underworld was not hell. Good and bad souls alike went to Hades. Hell, as the modern world understands it, was an invention in Dante's "Inferno." So Hell, in being beneath our feet, is a very deliberate opposite to Heaven.
2007-02-25 21:25:59 · answer #2 · answered by king_of_new_england 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's just a known fact scientifically and spiritually that Heaven is 186 trillion billion miles out into space. The bible says that hell or the pit is "down" underneath the earth.
2007-02-25 22:21:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
" Hell" is down. It is man's grave.
Not a permanent place of torture.
Hell [ Greek/ Hades] will be done away with, along with death.
No death = no graves.
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Ha′des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.
So which is the ' hot place, the place of destruction' ???
The two [ Hell/Hades and ' the lake of fire'] have been treated as one place, but that is not what the Bible says. One is to be destroyed IN the other.
2007-02-25 21:39:53 · answer #4 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible refers to "the highest heavens," and Jesus ascended into the clouds. The Bible also refers to the "depths of Sheol" or hell.
Actually heaven and hell exist not in the physical but in the supernatural realm. Heaven is in the presence of God, and hell is separate from the presence of God.
It is poetic imagery to think of heaven as that place where our heart is "uplifted" and hell where our soul is "downcast."
2007-02-25 21:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bible says that hell is in the middle of the earth, hades. The Bible also states to hold your hands up to heaven to praise YAHWEH. The book alone tells us.
2007-02-25 21:28:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but Truth is Truth, no matter When or How you Learn it.
We got the Bible.
They had Something too.
What? Don't Know.
But Truth is Truth.
The Bible says Heaven is up and Hell is Down--seems like Everybody Knows That whether their Saved or Lost.
Ditto...........
2007-02-25 21:28:23 · answer #7 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the Bible it says that God's voice came from up above, like when He spoke to Moses, Adam and Noah. When Jesus talked about His Father He always said His Father was from above. In Genesis God sent Satan down to earth, to the center of earth. At Fatima, Mary opened up the ground and let the 3 children see hell from within earth. When Jesus ascended into Heaven, He rose up. There are lots of references of Heaven and the Kingdom of God being up. And the opposite of God is Satan, thus the opposite of Heaven (up) would be hell (down).
2007-02-25 21:23:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its tradition i believe and The heavens are believed to be skyward because Jesus assend off this earth into the clouds i would have to say and he descended too aplace called hell in our language. To be honest I'm not 100 % sure.
2007-02-25 21:17:24 · answer #9 · answered by rockinweazel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible tells us that is the direction of them. Christ Ascended into Heaven and Decended into Hades
2007-02-25 21:16:18 · answer #10 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because in Greek mythology, Hades was the "under world" that you could literally access through holes in the Earth, like volcanoes.
2007-02-25 21:16:06 · answer #11 · answered by WWTSD? 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋