2007-05-06 03:43:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hell is a man made. It's easier to control people when there is the consequence of a afterlife of "fire& brimstone". Unless you are dead, you have no idea whats to come next. Be openminded enough to follow your own beliefs and not whats written down in a book that was in the whole scheme of things written by a man.
2007-05-06 03:59:19 · answer #1 · answered by Rebecca 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
its interesting to note that satan deceived Eve by lying to her and telling her she would not die (Genesis 3:4) now most religions in the world teach that after your body dies that you go on living in some other realm... that you do not die...
Most of the world's religions still believe in satan's original lie. You will find very few religions that believe YHWH who gave Solomon the wisdom to write Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20 & 9:5, and David to write Psalm 146:4 and Moses to record what YHWH told Adam at Genesis 3:19 telling us exactly what happens to us when we die. And when is the resurrection of those who are asleep in death?
Yhshua tells us at John 5:28, 29; John 11:11
And before that Daniel was told by YHWH to write Daniel 12:2. All these Scriptures expose satan's first deception that "you will not die" as the lie that it is!
Now, about “hell”
there are 3 words in the Bible which are translated as "hell"
Sheol
Gehenna
Hades
Sheol = the grave
Gehenna = a literal place where trash was burned into ashes in Biblical times
Hades = the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Sheol
God is Love and He created everything
He would not create a place of eternal suffering and torment for humans
there is the symbolic "lake of fire" but if you think about it, what would happen to you in a lake on fire? you would drown beneath or burn above... either way you would be dead, not eternally suffering, just dead... non-existent
agape!
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2007-05-07 00:31:21 · answer #2 · answered by seeker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well depending on what you believe hell is just a holding cell (for a lack of a better word ) for those that don't do or believe in the word of god and do what he commands us to do . at the rapture when Jesus comes back the dead in Christ will rise first and then be judge and determined what the book of life has to say about your life you will either go to heaven or to the lake of fire which is different than hell . god loves us all but if you don't listen to him and do his will then why should you be awarded . if you get caught driving drunk should the cop just take you home or jail if you all ready have lost your licenses to a d.u.i already .
2007-05-06 11:06:29 · answer #3 · answered by scott 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell was created ONLY for satan - ex-Lucifer - and all the angels who followed him in his rebellion against God.
Hell was NEVER meant for mankind...but because Adam
chose to disobey and listen to his wife instead of what God had told him and WARNED him about, satan was allowed to come and take over the world....and it is SATAN who wants all
mankind to die and perish in hell forever - NOT GOD.
GOD IS LOVES YOU SO VERY MUCH THAT HE SACRI-FICED HIS VERY OWN SON ON THE CROSS TO PAY THE FULL PENALTY FOR EVERY SIN THAT EVER WAS AND WOULD BE COMMITTED ON THIS EARTH, SO THAT MAN COULD HAVE THE CHOICE N O T TO GO TO HELL IF HE
PUTS HIS TRUST IN JESUS TO SAVE HIM..BUT GOD WILL
NOT FORCE A N Y O N E TO GET SAVE. SALVATION IS A GIFT AND YOU MUST RECEIVE IT PERSONALLY TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN. IT IS YOUR CHOICE & YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TRUST JESUS BEFORE YOU LEAVE THIS WORLD FOREVER.....
JOHN 3:16, 17
JOHN 8;24
JOHN 3;36
ACTS 4;12
ACTS 17
2007-05-06 11:04:00 · answer #4 · answered by angelique1225 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He may so love the world, but the world doesnt so love him back. Therefore he is going to select only the ones that love him and are TRULY his children to be with him, and the rest are goig to suffer his wrath.
We are all creations of God, but not all his children. Only his children love God.
Justice does not negate love.
2007-05-06 11:07:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our spirits have the ability to create other kinds of spirits. They have no conscience like we do, but can think and act on their own. Many are created by
emotion, and they are a mass of energy that is made of that emotion. Lust, Hate, etc.
These things get drawn to the magnetic center of the Earth, creating multi-dimensional levels of hell. And if one "rejects" their spirituality, they might end up in a mindless state of spiritual misery.
2007-05-06 10:57:10 · answer #6 · answered by Hermes Trismegistus 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The concept of "hell' was a human creation.
Anyone that still believes in it seriously needs to historically research where the idea came from.
2007-05-06 10:53:44 · answer #7 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hell as a place to burn eternally is a concept created by religions to scare people into coming to their church, thus giving the church's more opportunities to sucker you into giving them your money.
2007-05-07 00:40:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a very simplistic explanation:
Lets say you have 2 son, you love them both equally right? You ask them both to pick up their room and then you`ll take them out for a motorcycle ride. One only listen to you and clean his room, the other one ignores you and doesn`t clean his room and still wants to be taken out on a ride. Even though you love both your sons you will not reward the one being lazy and disobedient.
2007-05-06 10:58:14 · answer #9 · answered by Jane Marple 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The question is not "if" he loves you, but do you love him enough to simply accept him and avoid sending yourself to hell?
The Bible says that it is not God's will that any should perish.
2007-05-06 10:51:59 · answer #10 · answered by Me 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋