I need help on my blooming history homework!!!!
2007-03-12 00:26:29 · 36 answers · asked by Raj D 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A hell, according to many religious beliefs, is an afterlife of suffering where the wicked or unrighteous dead are punished. Hells are almost always depicted as underground. In Christianity and Islam, hell is fiery. Hells from other traditions, however, are sometimes cold and gloomy. Some hells are described in graphic and gruesome detail (for example, Hindu Naraka). Religions with a linear divine history often depict hell as endless (for example, see Hell in Christian beliefs). Religions with a cyclic history often depict hell as an intermediary period between incarnations (for example, see Chinese Di Yu). Punishment in hell typically corresponds to sins committed in life. Sometimes these distinctions are specific, with damned souls suffering for each wrong committed (see for example Plato's myth of Er), and sometimes they are general, with sinners being relegated to one or more chamber of hell or level of suffering (for example, Augustine of Hippo asserting that unbaptized infants suffer less in hell than unbaptized adults). In Islam and Christianity, however, faith and repentance play a larger role than actions in determining a soul's afterlife destinty.
2007-03-12 00:30:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
History homework asks for what Hell is like? Strange. Well, I think that answer to that can be sought by interviewing those men that were soldiers in WWI & II. I am not being funny, but look how many lives were lost and I think they'd be able to give you an insight as to what being in the trenches was like too. I mean from what you hear about these, that sounds pretty much what like how one would percive to be Hell, don't you think?
However, on the other hand, if this is something spiritual and you are covering up, first ask yourself, how do I know that there is a Hell and how can I prove it? Then you can ask the question about what it is like.
2007-03-14 11:58:04 · answer #2 · answered by J? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I must refer you to the song "Wandering Star" from the musical Paint Your Wagon, sung by Lee Marvin...
Do I know where Hell is? Hell is in Cologne. Heaven is goodbye forever, it's time for me to roam.
Also the song "Gospel Of No Name City" from Paint Your Wagon.... Will you go to Heaven or go to Hell? GO to Hell !! Either repent or fare thee well. Fare thee well.
One could also enter a discussion on the physical properties of Hell - is it Exothermic or Endothermic? But that is more Science than history. Historically speaking, no-one has ever returned from Hell. Hell is also known as : "The Hot Place"; Hades; Home Of The DEVIL; Satan's home.
You could also read The Holy Bible - whether you believe in God or not - as it contains information about Hell. It is referred to therein as "The Fiery Pit", the place where all "unsaved" people go when they die. You could also ask your local Jehovah's Witness - I am sure they would know all about Hell. You can find them in the Phone Book under Kingdom Halls Of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Does Hell exist? Some say it does and others say it is just a refernce to "keep us in line"; a theoretical place where the most terrible things you can imagine will happen to you; eternal punishment for your sin. The place of the damned.
I do know (according to the Bible) that God created Hell and caste the Devil into it, that was sometime before he made Adam & Eve. Morning or afternoon and on which day, it doesn't say. Obviously God had already figured out man (whom he had not yet created - they were still on the drawing board) would disobey him and therefore needed to create a place to punish him. However the bible also says God is loving and merciful, so why make Hell? Beats the Hell outa me.
Hell is also when your girlfirend catches you with another chick or she finds out you are gay!
I have a picture of Hell freezing over - something they said would never happen.
Then there is: Hell, Michigan, an unincorporated community with a population of 266, located in Putnam Township, in Livingston County, and in the U.S. State of Michigan. The community is near the border with Washtenaw County, about 20 miles northwest of Ann Arbor. Hell's ZIP Code is 48169
Just do a Yahoo search for HELL and also look at www.hell.com and these sites:
2007-03-12 01:00:18 · answer #3 · answered by Traveller 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows the truth about what happens after we die? Only God can reveal this information, and he has done so in his written word, the Bible. Here is what the Bible says:
Ecclesiates 3:19,20
For there is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit, so that there is no superiority of the man over the beast, for everything is vanity. All are going to one place. They have all come to be from the dust, and they are all returning to the dust.
There is no mention here of a fiery hell. Humans return to dust - to non existence - when they die.
In order to be tormented, an individual has to be conscious. Are the dead conscious? No. " For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten." Ecclesiates 9:5
It is impossible for the dead, "conscious of nothing at all", to experience the agonies of hellfire.
Still many believe that the wicked will go to a fiery hell and be tormented forever. Is this teaching logical?
If such a place really exists, then God would have to be the creator of it, and he would be responsible for what happens there. Can you accept that? The Bible Says: "God is love" (1John4:8). Would a God of love inflict torture that even humans with any measure of decency find revolting? Surely not.
Hell does not exist, and there is no history about Hell.
2007-03-12 00:52:03 · answer #4 · answered by Squeekie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is a place on the Island of Grand Cayman, part of the Cayman Islands. This group of Islands has outlawed the building of churches and religous places. This isnt because Hell is a part of the Island but more due to the ancestry of the founding fathers of the Islands, They where all pirates. And Grand Cayman is now the largest offshore banking system in the world.
But we all know bankers are pirates.
There is also a Hell in Norway but I cant see that being anything like the Hell in Grand Cayman.
There is also the biblical Hell, but that doesnt exist and you will probably get a bad mark for including it.
2007-03-12 00:31:36 · answer #5 · answered by clever investor 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The 'hell' as it is promulgated by the 'fire nand brimstone' brand of 'Christian' preachers is an artifact of over-zealous priests of various colours.
As far as I have been able to determine in our current round of recorded 'history', this version of embodied 'evil', the 'Devil', and his halls of residence, 'Hell', were invented by the Osirian priests of On ( Heliopolis ) about 3,500 years ago.
All modern religions, without exception, started off as the followings of genuine accomplished masters, trying to pass on a message of spiritual ( i.e. nonm-material ) understanding. In every case, after the master has passed on, his remaining folowers have diverted the core meaning of their teachers massage into one of control, thus warping wisdom into ignorance.
This is done by threats and coercions, and up to a point it works.....for a while, but we humans have a tendency to forget really easily, and we start to get 'uppity', and start thinking ( hehehehe ) for ourselves, and pretty soon we aren't listening to the priests anymore.
The priests don't like this.
So they invent ways of making us do as they say....which also work for a while, it does take a while to forget being spit-roasted, or watching someone else being spit-roasted. But eventually even this wears off, and we're at it again.
So finally the priests had to come up with something even more scary than what they could do to us in this life, so they invented a version of an afterlife in which the torture and mayhem could continue, to try to really scare us into compliance.
Hence the 'Tempter' transmogrified into the 'Tormenter', and obviously he needed to have a dungeon in which to carry out his ministrations, hence 'Hell'.
In Judaic terms, the actual place of 'Hell' was actually the big municipal garbage dump outside Jerusalem, over time taht also got transliterated into being another version of the 'Underworld' !
It's all just part of the control game, devised to keep us from discovering who we really are.
2007-03-12 01:34:24 · answer #6 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"That they all might be DAMNED who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
(2 Thessalonians 2:12)
The human mind cannot imagine how evil how hell will be. And for that matter how great heaven will be.
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2007-03-12 00:45:17 · answer #7 · answered by James H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Always remember that hell doesn't exist, it is fiction, dreamed up be those who want to control others. Different religions have different versions of hell, the Buddhists have a few, try googling it.
2007-03-12 01:03:30 · answer #8 · answered by funnelweb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Heaven is to be in the presence of a loving God, then Hell is NOT to be.
We can experience both Heaven and Hell on earth.
I know I experience Heaven and recommend it.
2007-03-12 00:34:10 · answer #9 · answered by alan h 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not a nice place to be and it's hot the devil lives there, you go there if you sin and don't put your trust in God and Jesus, and don't believe that Jesus Gods one and begotten son died on the cross to forgive your sin
2007-03-12 00:35:20 · answer #10 · answered by Jessica B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋