In hell, if all nerves cease to function, the body dies and rots, what exactly burns and feels pain?

Question

Follow up from what hell feels like, my post:
"To feel pain, nerves are stimulated, the nerves send the message that something happened to the brain, the brain interprets the message as pain, you say OUCH.. When you die, your body ceases to function. The nerves are dead. They feel nothing they cease to be stimulated by anything. The brain ceases to function, so it cannot interpret anything as pain from the nerves that cease to send messages to the brain. Because the nerves no longer function, and the brain no longer functions, the body ceases to function. No heart, no breathing, nothing. You are dead, you cease to exist. Nothing more can happen to it after it is dead, other than to be buried in the ground and decompose. Continue to follow this line of thought, and the utter impossibility of burning or suffering in hell become clearly obvious. In this line of thought, the existence of hell becomes an utter impossibility." So tell me what exactly is it that burns and feels pain?

Good, no one has so far said, you'll find out soon enough, yet there is little substance to any answer, nor is there any level of consistency. If it's something beyond the physical universe and/or beyond human understanding or perception; then then the whole concept of suffering is also immaterial, isn't it?

Answer 1

type 23 minutes in Hell in your search bar and then click on the video and listen to it. You will find out a lot about Hell there. It isn't for the faint of heart!

After you watch that - Check out the five Atheists that died and what their experience was by typing "To Hell and Back" into your search bar and watching that video presentation.

Then you may want to listen to Mary Baxter's Visions of Heaven and Hell. That will give you some background info.

Then compare that to all the Bible teaches on Hell - you can follow the scriptures in 23 minutes in Hell that the man uses during his presentation as a starting point.

One other thing - Man is a triparte being - Body, soul and spirit.

Answer 2

Hell is a place that doesn't exist and isn't somewhere that the Bible teaches. The original words that it replaces are Sheol (Hebrew), Hades (Greek), which basicially refer to the common grave of mankind (Job 14:13). When our body dies, we die, are not conscious (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10), and are only hope is in a future resurrection (Acts 24:15, 2 Timothy 2:18).

The other word mistranslated is 'Gehenna', which was a rubbish dump outside Jerusalem and which was always kept burning with sulphur. It was used as a symbol of everlasting destruction, like the 'lake of fire' (Revelation 20:13-15).

Job 14:13
O that in She´ol you would conceal me,
That you would keep me secret until your anger turns back,
That you would set a time limit for me and remember me!

Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10
For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten... All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She´ol, the place to which you are going.

Acts 24:15
and I have hope toward God, which hope these [men] themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

2 Timothy 2:18
These very [men] have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they are subverting the faith of some.

Revelation 20:13-15
And the sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Ha´des gave up those dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds.  And death and Ha´des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.  Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled into the lake of fire.

Answer 3

The paradise and hell of existence are found in all the worlds of God, whether in this world or in the spiritual heavenly worlds. Hell made by metaphor as a place of buring torment is figurative language culturally suited to those who fear fire. People above the Arctic Circle have no such fear, in fact, would consider eternal burning as paradise. They fear an eternal frozen existence. So whether we burn or freeze in this world or the next, it is the agonizing suffering of ignorance and rejection of truth that is depicted. Imagine trying to explain such things to an individual who has no conception of pain because of some physical ailment or who perversely enjoys pain. Since these explanations are for everyone in all circumstances, figurative language is necessary to give all some concept of what the agony of ignorance is like.

Answer 4

In the resurrection EVERYBODY will be given a new body that is indestructible. Those that are cast into hell will have physical feeling just like those that make it into heaven. Just because the body will be indestructible does not mean that it will not be subject to experiencing pain beyond anything imaginable on earth.

Answer 5

I have answered some questions like this before. However, I will provide a short answer for this one. Hell comes from some old English words which means "to conceal". It was a common term in the 1600's that referred to covering vegetables in a small pit to keep them cool and fresh. It became the word for the grave, and in the Bible is mainly used to speak about the grave, and when it isn't and has referrences to fire, flames of fire, etc., it has to do with the extent of punishment in this life which at that time was the ultimate in punishment - being condemned to death and being cast into Gehenna or the Valley of Hinnom, a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem where trash burned 24 hours a day, hence the term "where the worm never dies."

Please read Bible Threatenings Explained at the link in my reference source for detailed information on this.

Answer 6

You are thinking that man is only a physical body, but man has an eternal soul. Man also has a spiritual body as do angels and all spiritual beings..
In the story of the Rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16, the rich man's body was in the grave, but he was in hell. His physical brain was not functioning but his spiritual one was..
Also think of out of body experiences where people see their body in a Hosp room and the doctors working on them.. How do they see with their physical eyes closed?/ There is a spiritual world here also.

the rich man also died, and was buried;
Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luk 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

Answer 7

Re-animation forseen by the prophet H.P. Lovecraft. The breakthroughs to achieve this are happening now in the End Days.

Answer 8

the celestial body.
if your body is just a shell for your soul when your soul is released there is nothing saying it doesn't go to another permanent shell that is fully functional but indestructable.

most people who believe in hell believe you will suffer.
most of belive in heaven think you will have complete bodies (you lost an arm in this life but will have two in heaven) and will be able to enjoy physical pleasures like sex.

Answer 9

Unless you're raised from the dead to an eternal life, then won't you feel something?

To take your nerves argument further, when skin burns the nerve endings burn with them so after a while you will not feel any pain, but this is what it says about how skin is replaced in hell so that you can feel the pain of burning skin again and again:

004.055: Some of them believed, and some of them averted their faces from him: And enough is Hell for a burning fire.

004.056 : Those who reject our Signs, We shall soon cast into the Fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.

- Quran

Answer 10

actually there is no hell..once u die ..ur dead Romans 6:23 says the punishment for sin is death.also Psalm 146:4 says: "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish." so how can u be suffering if u have no thoughts?.also Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 says the dead know nothing.plus if hell/heaven did exist dont u think lazarus would have talked about this?

if parents dont punish their children by burning them (ok some do but not most of them) or really mistreating them because they love how is God gonna do that, if the bible states God is love