This week the Pope Benedict XVI confirmed that Hell is for real. Do you agree with him?

Question

Pope said: "Hell exists and there is eternal punishment for those who sin and do not repent." You have been warned!
I say: No doubt that God is love!

Yes, He has confirmed for those who are still not too sure. Apparentely, there's plenty of evidence in the bible.

Answer 1

He has no way of confirming heaven or hell anymore than anyone else. All the religious writings that his belief is based on is open to anyone or any interpretation.
Because he is the pope doesn't mean that he could read better than anyone else.
There is no doubt that God is imaginary.

Answer 2

The Pope is a confused. That is just one of many false doctrines that the Catholic church adopted that is not true according to the bible. The really sad part is that many Protestant denominations walk hand in hand with this belief and blind non-believers to the true character of God.

Edit: There are a few texts that can make one think at first glance that eternal torment in hell is doctrine when taken by themselves. Anyone who has seriously studied the state of the dead as described in the bible by adding scripture to scripture to gain a true knowledge will find this is simply not true. In Ezekiel 18:4 God said, "Behold all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die". What you will find is that although the punishment of death for the wicked is eternal, the punishment is death, not everlasting life in torment.

Answer 3

Yes.

All Christians beleive in heaven and hell.

No one really knows what hell is like. It has been described by people who have not been there as everything from flames to a frozen lake (Dante).

Hell is the state of complete and final self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed, reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

Quite picking on the Pope. He's a great man (I've known people who actually met him). What do you care if he announces something that is believed by his faith? Would you be this up in arms if a Jewish Rabbi came out and said something believed by his faith? Or a Buddhist? Or a Hindu? NO! You get up in arms over the Pope saying Hell exists.

Answer 5

That's just not accurate according to the bible. I wonder what book he is reading.

Pope John Paul II "declared that hell is 'not a punishment imposed externally by God' but is the natural consequence of the unrepentant sinner's choice to live apart from God" (ibid., p. 48).

http://www.ucg.org/booklets/HL/foreverinhell.htm

Answer 6

And who in the hell is Pope Benedict XVI to let us know something that Jesus talked more about then heaven.

Answer 7

The Pope is clearly parroting words fed to him by the Vatican, since he had previously indicated that he does not believe in Hell as a real place.

Or maybe God told him?

Answer 8

I'm not Catholic, but I didn't need some figurehead to tell me Hell was real! There's plenty of Scripture that tells us about the reality of Hell! If we allow ourselves to slide through it's gates in life, we'll find out about it a lot sooner than we want to!

Answer 9

Absolutely.

"God is Love" (1 Jn 4)
"1034 Jesus often speaks of "Gehenna" of "the unquenchable fire" reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost . Jesus solemnly proclaims that he "will send his angels, and they will gather . . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire," and that he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!"

Answer 10

People send themselves to Hell when they turn their back on God.

God does not send people to Hell.

Hell and the Devil do exist. His Holiness, Pope Benedict is correct.

God is love. God bless you.