So, the pope has declared that hell(tm) is a real place. Does he have any... proof?

Question

Because he's not voicing an opinion, he's stating what he believes to be a fact.
Unfortunately, he has neither proof, nor evidence.
Just like all of the other "facts" that christians tout about thier mythology.
And since the previous pontiff stated that hell is not a real place but a state of mind, which one is correct?

So other than ridiculous sayings and platitudes, do ANY of you have any proof that hell is a real place? Because so far, all I've read are pathetic attempts to threaten me with this place (not surprising, since that is it's function) but still, not a shred of proof.

Answer 1

Hell does not exist.
Why in the world would anyone believe in a God that would send them to hell?
Crazy!!!

Answer 2

Nope, the Pope, nor ant other appointed principal religious leader have any prove. How could they, they are PRESENTLY here in the middle of it all . . The living on earth Life plane.
I am Buddhist, my spiritual teacher is the Dalai Lame, yet even he answers to questions with open reluctance and doubt as to the after-life.He, the Dalai, was chosen at the age of 5 to be the 14th re-incarnation of the Buddha of compassion.
It seems he has even mentioned what the power of indoctrination can do to one, especially if very young.
I myself do not concern myself with the after life. I'd rather concern myself with my spiritual quality in THIS life - therefore attending to what responsibilities are mine - not to avoid a hell, or gain entrance to heaven, (all brownie points or clusters of red-hot coal to hold in one's mouth for an eternity?
Come on, what then becomes of our roles HERE, while in the only life we do not know, yet still exist within?
Do we ignore it?
Do we only hope as little hypocritical saints in the making for the sake of an entrance of an imaginary, man-conceived place?
Do we worry and sweat blood and fear in the case we are cast down in to the realm of the Devil?
Would you not say that is a spit of no-appreciation for the
present realm of life?

Hell, Heaven are right here according to our behaviour

Some devoted Buddhist must think ill of me for not jumping on the wagon of re-incarnation, where I would remain until I cleaned my act from all other previous lives . . but you know what . . I'll take my chances, I'll do the best I can, for the sake and quality of Now, no matter what anyone says.

When I think of any other human, no matter how high their position, telling me, intimidating me with what will happen if I believe and practice in my own way, may it be as responsibly as possible, I go back to the days when Mommie and Daddy would be the almost whole deciders of what should have been my life and deeds, while in it . . (for MY OWN GOOD!)

Answer 3

Is there in the bible,,that hell is a state of mind..?There isn't such thing...on the contrary..as you can read in Apocalips ..that Heaven is a place..there is an eternal kind of castle there..with golden walls ..there is a royal chair there...where God..sits..it means..there is also a ..place ..hell..

Theologists also said God doesn't have legs...that God is not a being looking like man BUT He is described by prophets as having legs...and I guess the prophets ..told the truth and saw the real God..and not a puppet made by God..as representing Him...like on cartoon network..

if hell is a state of mind..

ok..if so..where is the PLACE ...where this state of mind is taking place...after the end of the world..where?

Is pope God...?he is just His servant..people can make mistakes...from time to time...

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Answer 4

You cannot prove the existance of God or anything spiritual to someone who has decided not to believe (much less the existance of 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 5

You ask some interesting questions. Did the pope bother to go back to the original documents/translations to see if there were any discrepancies or is he basing his new fact solely on current beliefs in the christian community?

Did you just trademark hell? lol That's funny.

Answer 6

POPE'S are as easily mislead and dont really have 100 % real Bible knowledge.

Just because a man gets into that office/position doesnt mean he know jack !
The Catholic religion makes many of their own laws, rules of christianity and practices - many of which are contrary to the bible.

Even their own Catechism admits.that they dont have authority to do certain things but just take it anyway.

the 7 Day Adventist have some teaching that they say proves - the Pope is the -office-seat- of the Anti-Christ.

The Muslims teach that the Pope is a secret evil doer who is trying to control the world thru religion.

The Mormons and the Jeho-Wits..also have strange teaching about the pope.

Answer 7

Maybe neither?
Most people have a mythology, it must be a necessity as even the most primitive society has some form of worship, usually of something in nature, or the heavens or some god or goddess who must be given items in sacrifice.
It is important to realize that they love and honor their Gods as much as we love and honor ours, which ever variety we find solace in.
Its a big Universe, whatever gets you through the night, whomever you pray to, if its right for you all I ask is that you not inflict it on me.

Answer 8

Especially since a Pope is divinely inspired and infallible, what with being God's mouthpiece on Earth etc, etc.

Kind of bad when they contradict each other.

Answer 9

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap

Answer 10

His Holiness John Paul II never taught that Hell was a state of mind. You might provide proof for that charge, just as you are asking proof of us.

Benedict is not "stating what he believes to be a fact." He is stating a fact.

Hell is the abode of the Devil and his fallen angels. Hell is where people send themselves when they make themselves the enemy of God. Jesus Christ told us authoritatively there was a Hell and we have eyewitness accounts of people who have had visions of it or people who have spoken from Hell.

God bless you.