Beyond our three dimensions, is Hell a dimension?

Question

In fact, would you believe Heaven to be a dimension?

Answer 1

Firstly, lets look at dimesions. We have 3 dimentions describing X, Y and Z axis upon a graph. The 4th dimesion is that of time, which acts upon the other 3 dimensions equally.
According to physicists and mathematicians, there are many theoritical dimensions. Regardless, Heaven and Hell are religious myth. All myths tend to get distorted as they are passed between cultures.

Hell is both part of Parsi (Zoroasterism), Nordic, Greek, Egyptian and Jewish religious myth. Yet all of these cultures probably borrowed Hell from the Hindu's. In Hinduism, there is a grim reaper. Except that he is not so grim (as he is working for God, and is not evil). There is a demigod in Hinduism who's responsibility is to collect souls after they have left their bodies. This demigod is called Mitra. All souls are taken to a planet called Yamaloka, and hence Mitra also has the official title 'Yama' (for which most hindu's call him). One spends time in Yamaloka if one has been a bad person (for a limited time only) in order to suffer sufficiently for one's badness. However, Yama is not a permanent home for the wicked, as in Hindi culture nobody is consitutionally wicked (just illusioned).

Heaven in the Hindi religions is called Brahmaloka (or Satyaloka meaning abode of truth), or Asgard (nordic mythology). Here again, this is not a permanent home for saved people, but a temporary home for the 'nearly made it to salvation' people. In fact, Heaven (ruled by Indra) is within the material world (as is Yamaloka or hell). In order to ascend to the spiritual world, one must be completly saved or liberated from one's desire to serve self, and also completely devoted to serving God.

Hope that explains the origins of heaven and hell, they are both planets in our galaxy or universe according to myth.

Answer 2

Look at it this way: Does either the first or second dimension exist independently, on its own? Is there some mysterious 2-D plane with no thickness floating around in space? (Like the prison for General Zod and his conspirators in...ah, never mind.) Is there some mystical 1-D line somewhere with no thickness or depth? Not as far as we can tell. Those are mathematical abstractions which do exist as properties of 3-D objects. If that's the case, then why would be believe that there's a separate dimension that's either heaven or hell? Or maybe like lines and planes that exist as part of this 3-D world, there is heaven and hell on earth. In any event, the fourth dimension is commonly thought of to be time. But others (see link below to Rudy Rucker's book)(rightly) see the fourth dimension as just that: another dimension, as opposed to some entirely different animal like time. So 1-D is to 2-D what 2-D is to 3-D which is what 3-D is the 4-D....that's how you understand what the fourth dimension is supposed to be like. For instance, take a 3-D object like a ball. If it were to pass through a 2-D plane, what would it look like? Well, at the moment of contact, it would look like a point, and then a small circle, and then expanding circles until the middle of the ball is reached; and then it becomes contracting circles until it disappears into a point, as the ball finishes passing through the plane. Imagine now a 2-D circle passing through a 1-D line; what would it look like? Similar to the 3-D ball passing through the 2-D plane, you would see a point that expands into a line equal to the diameter of the circle, and then contracting back into a point and then to nothing. If you're still following along, now you can imagine what a 4-D "hypersphere" looks like when it passes through our 3-D space. It would first look like a point, and then into a small ball, and then expanding to a large ball, and then reducing in size again until it disappears. This does not describe time. Anyway, you can do similar logical analogies for 5-D, 6-D, etc. The latest theory in physics about the nature of the world says that there are 11 dimensions in our universe. So what's the point? Well, if heaven and hell were dimensions, then we might share some part of it in our world! Just like a ball shares some indivisible slice of itself as it passes through a plane, so do heaven and hell. (Again, this presupposes that heaven and hell exist, which we have not established. But this for the sake of argument and for people who believe in that sort of stuff.)

Answer 3

We have four dimensions. Time... being the fourth.

Nobody, I think, can say for sure if Hell is a dimension. Or if it's even a place. Some people think that it's more of a state of mind, of mental torture, than a physical realm. Personally I think it's both...

Answer 4

Hmm...possibly. Considering what everyone is saying about the 3rd and 4th dimensions, heaven and hell would be the 6th dimension.(in those terms)

Answer 5

Who can say if it's either or both or none. It IS now and was created for the devil and his angels/servants. Hell is for all the folks also who don't believe in God or who rebel against His love and they get to spend an eternity without Him and with everyone and everything that is not loving or good or light or sweet or comfortable or peaceful..., which is what they are desiring now...THEIR OWN CONTROLING, HATEFUL WAY!
God is faithful and He gave you freewill choice and He won't take it back.., you can have what you want now and forevermore! He will keep wooing you for a long time because it is not HIS will for anyone to perish, but He will eventually let you have it all YOUR WILL and way!

Answer 6

No, Hell is the common grave of mankind. This obviously located right here on earth.“The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.” Yes, the dead know absolutely nothing. In view of this, Solomon urged: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10) Where do the dead go? To Sheol (Hebrew, she’ohl′), the common grave of mankind. Our dead loved ones are not conscious of anything. They are not suffering, and they cannot affect us in any way. we are not held in atype of limbo. Would there need to be a ressurection as promised in the bible if we were already alert and could make decisions

Answer 7

hell is not yet existing. heaven can be a dimension. but spirit is a dimension

Answer 8

If there is a Hell in the afterlife, I think it is probably a self-imposed state of mind in which people must face the consequences of their actions before moving on to the next level of existence. The idea of boiling in a lake of fire for eternity seems silly and pointlessly ic.

Answer 9

There is neither, but we can imagine, and that is what makes things seem possible.

Actually, many physicists have determined in their theories that there are 11 dimensions. (Source: Some String Theory show on Science Channel)

Answer 10

no, and we live in 4 dimensions, not 3 (time itself is the 4th dimension)