like let's just say you live a really good life, you're practically a saint, but you just didn't believe in god. perhaps you were even pondering the existense of an all powerful, all knowing being, but just seconds before you came to the realization that one existed, BAM!!! you get hit by a train, and you end up having to spend the rest of eternity in hell. now is that the same hell as someone who was a child murderer, who stole money every day of his life from the poor, and just out of pure hatred for god, he took his name in vain every chance he got. or if there are different levels of hell, are there different levels of heaven, and if so, maybe there's a place in heaven where the bad person i just described goes if he accepted jesus as his savior just before having a shoot out with the police.
2007-04-14 13:47:34 · 14 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Purgatory??? Which bible verse is that in? Dante's inferno is a horrible book for a christian to read. The bible says when you die you go to heaven or hell. Then comes the judgement. There is a lake of fire that comes after your judgement. No purgatory. If your standing before God not knowing if your going to heaven or hell your going to HELL. In John it says a man must be born again to enter into heaven. The bible does not say anything about levels of hell but GOD says that if you mislead his people such as lets say a CATHOLIC priest then your punishment will be worse then anyone elses. If you decieve people into believing something God does not want taught then you are in line for that punishment. How many people are decieved into thinking that a confession booth will get their sind forgiven and get them inot heaven? Jesus said no one can get to the father but by me. Confess your sins unto ME (meaning Jesus) not a priest. If you die and think your going to purgatory your decieved. Jesus spoke a lot about hell, nor purgatory. Do you think he came and died a horrible death for us to get a slap on the wrist? READ YOUR BIBLES!!!
2007-04-14 14:02:41 · answer #1 · answered by Charles P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are no levels of torture in the Christian hell. It's more a sort of rubbish heap for discarding rejects. I think the movie Constantine has the best depiction of how hell is described in the Bible.
Chinese popular religion on the other hand has ten courts with different punishments for the different sins/vices. The Chinese Courts of Hell have a judge in charge of each court to try cases and pass sentence.
Popular Western notions of hell seem to bend towards the idea of having different levels of punishment. I suppose that the idea of punishments that fit the crime is universal.
2007-04-14 14:05:50 · answer #2 · answered by Slow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's a good question. I too would like to know the answer to that one but I do believe that hell is like a holding cell until final judgment. The bibles speaks as though hell is a different place than the lake of fire and brimstone. If there are different levels of heaven and hell then i think that the worst level of heaven is still better than the best level of hell.
2007-04-14 13:52:42 · answer #3 · answered by truly speaking 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sure hope so. Because think about the difference in life-spans. Someone could die at age 15 but be sexually promiscious and go to Hell just the same as some evil old guy. If Hell was even all the way through, then the unfairness would be very acute. I hope that Dante is correct in thinking of his 8 spheres of Hell.
2016-05-20 01:17:21 · answer #4 · answered by viva 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The degree of punishment will be commensurate with one's sin against the light which one has received.
One good passage that indicated degrees of punishment is Luke 12:47-48: "That servant who know his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be BEATEN WITH MANY BLOWS. But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be BEATEN WITH FEW BLOWS. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked". Other verses on this issue include MAT 10:15; 16:27; Rev. 20:12,13; 22:12.
Jesus affirmed that the wicked "will go away to ETERNAL punishment, but the righteous to ETERNAL life" (Mat 25:46)
2007-04-14 16:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have been okay but you failed to capitalize the "G" in God. That is unforgiveable. But the worse that will happen to you in Hell is that you will be reborn a pauper in Tasmania.
Yes, there are gradations but they range from being reborn a cockroach to being reborn the next Paul Newman or Joanne Woodward. Currently, the worst "sentence" one can get is being reborn the next Britney Spears or, if you really do a bad, bad thing,
2007-04-14 14:21:00 · answer #6 · answered by ALWAYS GOTTA KNOW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "levels of hell" comes from a secular book by a very imaginative author. The Catholics adopted it to doctrine because, well, I don't know. Maybe they just liked the idea that stealing a pack of gum won't have you sitting in the sauna with Hitler.
I don't know how it all works, because I haven't died, but the Bible indicates that we will all have to answer to our Maker, and that He knows our true heart. So if your scenario happens, you still have a chance of going to Heaven.
But, no, there's only one hell, and it's the whole enchilada.
2007-04-14 13:52:40 · answer #7 · answered by dbackbarb 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. So called Christian religions say Yes but, that is not what the Bible says. Ecclesiastes 9: 5 says "the dead are conscious of nothing at all." Verse 10 reads, "...for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She'ol (the grave) the place to which you are going." Jesus likened it to sleep in the case of resurrecting Lazuras.
2007-04-14 14:05:51 · answer #8 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As for me since I'm a born again Christian I don't care what there is in Hell. All I know is its a place where God is not found and that is not where I want to be.
2007-04-14 13:59:34 · answer #9 · answered by Ashley O 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell is hell according to the Bible. It's doesn't speak of a hell that will go easy on anyone. The best thing to do is stay out of it and Christ is the only way out.
2007-04-14 13:55:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋