The Old General and The Count
In Russia shortly before the horrible military campaign between Napoleon and Russia in 1812, two high-ranking military men, one a Count and the Military Governor of Moscow and the other a General, were scoffing over drinks about the existence of God, life after death and Hell. They made a mocking "pledge of honor": if there were a Hell, the first there would come to inform the other of it. A few weeks later, the General departed for the front. One morning, while the Count was lying in bed, the General suddenly appeared before him, pale, with his right hand on his breast, declaring: "What do we do now? There is a Hell and I am there! What do we do now?" He then disappeared. The Count ran to friends, eyes wild, hair on end, and exclaimed what had just happened. Two weeks later, word was received in Moscow that the General had died in battle – on the same day and at the very hour he appeared to the Count. He had kept his word of honor: Hell exists
2007-03-10 07:52:56 · 12 answers · asked by enigma21 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
do you agree?How many people will repent?
2007-03-10 07:53:34 · update #1
The Young Harlots
Rome, 1873. A prostitute dies late one night at the local hospital. At that instant, one of her "co-workers" back at the brothel starts screaming, waking up the entire neighborhood and bringing the police. Why? Because her friend at the hospital had suddenly appeared to her in flames, stating: "I am damned!" At daybreak, the poor girl left. Word followed of the death the night before of her friend at the hospital. Word then spread all over Rome of these events. As always, the wise listened, the foolish laughed.
2007-03-10 07:54:09 · update #2
The Young Lord and His Mistress
In London during the winter of 1847-1848, a wealthy young widow in her late 20's suddenly found herself in an illicit relationship with a young lord. Late one night as she was falling asleep, a glimmer of light started to grow and expand at her door. To her astonishment the door started to slowly open, and there was the young lord. He approached, grabbed her left wrist, and hissed: "There is a Hell." The pain in her wrist was so great she lost consciousness. When she came to, she had a terrible burn into her wrist down to the bone. The carpet also was scorched where his footsteps had come and gone. The next day she learned that the night before, her lord had been found drunk and had died in his servants' arms. She apparently lived the rest of her life with her charred scar as a reminder.
2007-03-10 08:06:35 · update #3
Hell's not a bad place. Yeah, it's a little humid, I'll grant you that, but there's some great restaurants, and a coffeehouse that I'm quite fond of.
The screaming and all that, you get used to.
2007-03-10 07:56:14 · answer #1 · answered by SATAN 2 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Jesus did say that one will be throne in the fiery pit prepared for Satan's Angels.
I however believe that this has not happened yet, but that we must wait for the return of Christ and the resurrection of the dead, the time that all will be judged and that he will divide the lambs who will live forever with him on the new earth and the goats who did follow the Shepard will be cast into hell. I am not fully positive that they even know time has been going by or if they are only in a limbo at this moment but i think that these are just stories meant to scare non believer to come to believe in who we believe in.
2007-03-10 16:28:33 · answer #2 · answered by Me_know_Stuff 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And there are those who will still argue that it does not. They too will one day have an appearance to make. Maybe God will give them one last chance and let them be the one receiving the message instead of being the one who had to deliver it.
2007-03-10 16:02:00 · answer #3 · answered by froggsfriend 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You find a story that agrees with your point of view. Ergo, this story is de facto true.
How bizarre. Do you use such criteria for all of your sources of information?
2007-03-10 16:01:43 · answer #4 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No because I don't believe in your religion and to me that just sounds like an urban legend.
2007-03-10 16:02:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to believe in hell. What I believe now is that when God said he would send a savior for the world he meant it. And All Shall Be Saved.
2007-03-10 15:57:28 · answer #6 · answered by whitebutterfly24 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oh dear.
The only thing worse than looking for wisdom in the bible is looking for wisdom in ghost stories.
2007-03-10 15:58:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, of course that doesn't change my mind. No more than fairy tales about trolls and ogres make me believe in them. Silly bedtime stories....
2007-03-10 15:58:37 · answer #8 · answered by somebody 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Uh...no. Generally I don't rely on unsupported (no other witnesses) "sightings" of ghosts from hundreds of years ago to form my belief system.
2007-03-10 15:57:46 · answer #9 · answered by somathus 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Urban legends and folk tales are fun!
But they aren't evidence, and they won't change any but the simplest of minds.
2007-03-10 15:56:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋