Do you think that most people do or do not understand *Hell* ?

Question

Which is a place totally seperate of GOD? and do you think people have any clue what it is to live in eternity seperated from the Loving God who created us?

Lastly do you think the majority of people in the world would rather live in a place where GOD is loved and worshipped? or do you think the majority of folks just don't care one way or the other?

Answer 1

No, I don't believe people realize what separation from God will entail, or what total darkness is. Even on our darkest nights on earth we are still surrounded by stars, so I don't think people have a concept of darkness in the full absence of God's light. Without light there is no warmth, joy, peace or love, or kindness, and caring.
Honestly, I think the majority of people on earth don't care because they're only focused on things of this world and are in denial about the spiritual part of themselves. Sadly.

Answer 2

Most people don't understand what hell really is. Many believe it to be a place of eternal torment for those who don't worship God. This is a lie perpetrated by apostate Christianity. This teaching was borrowed from pagan religions. The earliest known teaching of hellfire comes from the ancient Egyptians. It's also found in Babylonian and Assyrian religion, and is part of Buddhist teachings.

Look at it this way:
If you had a stubbornly rebellious child who wouldn’t listen to you, would you hold their hand on a hot stove to punish them? No, of course not. Anyone who would should have their children taken away. We know from the Bible that “God is love” (1 John 4:8). He would never torment someone for eternity (which is a really long time) for the sins of just 70 years. Religions who teach about fiery hell have much to answer for before God.

Answer 3

No, most people do not understand what the word hell actually is. The word hell means mans common grave. For me to live in a place without God and to give him no worship is the suffering I would fear.

What most people do not realize is, if you reject God and refuse his love, when the end comes, you will be wiped from God's memory forever. And to me, that is the eternal suffering that the book of revelations speaks of. It is a separation from God that we can never again get back, and it will be for all eternity. We will never be remembered again, because we will ceased to exist.

I don't understand how people can believe that our loving creator would be so cruel as to throw all his evil children in a pit of hell just to make them suffer for all eternity.This is not a loving God, one who would want to hear the tormenting screams of his children, day after day. It is so much kinder and loving for our God just to simply cease our existence. For us it would be torment, knowing that we would never be thought of again by anyone, or to know that we could never live again and have a relationship with God.

The lake of fire is the second death, period. God does love us, and I wish everyone could see this, but Satan is working overtime, because his time is short.

Answer 4

Most people don't undertand that Heaven and Hell are the in the same place at the same time, which is right here on Earth. And our 'free-will' comes into play when we decide which part we want to prevail while we are here. We can either create a living hell or a living heaven. We can act evil - we can act like saints. People make the choice. God sits back and watches. We can pray and have faith and live decent lives - in a way we are living in Heaven - or we can do the opposite and create our own hell - after that we hit the ground and return back to the Earth.

Answer 5

Well, let's see. Hell is eternal separation from God.

Humans really do not have a firm grip on the concept of infinity. Thinking about it makes our brains hurt. We have no point of reference.

Humans have also never been separated from God. Once again, no point of reference.

I firmly believe that people sin because they have no fear of spending eternity separated from God. They have no fear because they don't understand what that means. Early Christians tried to come up with the worst possible thing people could think of which was burning to death and then said that is what hell was like and that they would never stop burning.

I think it was a mistake to propagate that belief because it then caused people to be repulsed by a God who would do that to the creations he supposedly loves.

Answer 6

Hell becomes a kinder and gentler place in direct proportion to enlightened and intelligent culture.

In other words, back in the forties and fifties, it was generally understood inthe Christian community that Hell was a place of torment and burning and gnashing of teeth and destruction.

But now, since it can hardly be rationalized by the common man that Hell, in this frame, hardly seems just and fair and loving (even if it is our choice), Christians have had to do more "research" (i.e. construing the scriptures to fit their new idea) on Hell and they are calling it "sheol" fromthe original Greek and have made it sort of a "minimum security prison of choice."

They're getting better, I must say.

Eventually, everyone will be a Wiccan annyway, I mean, People used to worship the Sun and Isis and Thor and Zeus, etc, etc.

Things eventually come full circle back to nature.

Answer 7

I think that most people think that hell is a huge pit of fire. But that is symbolic.

Hell is a created state of mind that we have created by our sin and separation from our family and father who loves us most.

I think that most people are good and would prefer to be in the right place. In addition I think there are levels of heaven and hell. You have to be accountable to go to a hell that Judas is going to.

It seems that we all progress differently spiritually and God has places prepared for whatever level of glory you obtain.

There was only one church who has doctrine like this makes any sense to my ?'s that I had pertaining to religion and they had a cool promise.

It says in the book of Mormon that he who reads fully and prays and asks God in the name of Christ if these things are true will recieve a answer through the manifestation of the holy ghost.

I took the challenge and recieved my answer. So i know that the teachings and things that made sense to me were true.

Answer 8

I wonder if God has ever been to Nigeria. I believe there is a Hell Prep School and that it is on Earth in our reality. I don't want to go to Hell.

Anyway, I think people have become desensitized to religion. Unfortunately, you see it on TV and everywhere all the time. On TV it's in the form of a holy war or a sex or money scandal. You see religion in movies but the roles are either something like a street preacher who looks like they just finished a bottle of Jack. Or you see the televangelists who evidently need your donations to help the needy to fix up his multi-million dollar stadium / church.

I think a lot of people have lost trust in spiritual leaders and are basically dealing with things on their own and thinking for themselves. The ones who supposedly "keep the faith" are the ones who come up with excuses when crimes are uncovered in their religion or they automatically forgive crimes committed on the behalf of another religion (jihad). It's easy to forgive something that hasn't directly happened / effected you.

Answer 9

Hell doesn't exist. It was a term borrowed from the Pagans when Christianity wanted to demonize the old religion. Hell is derived form the Scandanavian Goddess of the underground called Hel.

Hell is a myth and does not exist other than in man's imagination.

Answer 10

Most people don't understand. Hell is the opposite of Heaven right? And in heaven we live eternally then in Hell we are dead forever. God is so loving he doesn't want us to suffer in what most people think is Hell, Burning forever. He just puts us out of our suffering on Earth and puts us in a peaceful sleep...forever.