What do you think Hell is like?

Question

My pastor (Charles Swindoll) spoke a sermon on this subject. I really didn't think about what Hell would be like if we went there. He said in his sermon that when someone has a big hot boiling pot of oil and pores it all over your body, it would burn up your body. This is almost that same feeling in Hell. Not only that your body is burning but living in the taste of maggots feeding on your flesh, and living like this forever. This is the real Hell. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to go to Hell. And this will happen if you don’t have faith in the Lord Jesus. Just thinking about those people who has been through death and now living in suffering is truly depressing and seeing those who don’t experience to know the Lord. Please share your thoughts.

I love hearing other opinions from other people. Please feel free to give yours.

Answer 1

I like Chuck Swindoll. I tune into his radio program sometimes, when able. ( is he still on the air ? )

To me hell is being in a state of severe torment so great as if you were dying, but never allowed to die.

FOREVER AND EVER.

(no coffee breaks)

dave

Answer 2

Since Swindoll is so familiar with the Christian Hell and there is no description of Hell in the Bible, the pertinent 1st tion would be; "Mr. Swindoll from you descriptions of Hell can we assume that your description is true and witnessed first hand." The 2nd question would be, "Will you take an oath on the Bible that you have first hand knowledge in hell?" 3rd question "When you go to Hell for a refresher course, so you can threaten and frighten good folks, can you just stay and write us how you are doing occasionally?

Answer 3

God's words should never be twisted in this way. The Bible says a person is a soul and the soul dies. It also says there is no consciousness after death. Now, please tell me how a person with no consciousness can be aware of suffering?? Read Jeremiah 7:31 and then you will realize how God feels about burning children alive in fire. God is love. He told Adam that the consequences for disobedience were death. He said nothing about eternal suffering. Your pastor needs to get a real job. He does not qualify for the one he is doing here.

Answer 4

How can a firey place be thrown into a lake of fire?

Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

The above scripture shows death and hell are the same, so what are they like?

Jesus did not say his friend was in heaven and he did not say he was saving him from a firey place, what he did say was this:

Jhn 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

Answer 5

Hell is described as a bottomless pit (Luke 8:31, Revelation 9:1), and a lake of fire, burning with sulfur, where the inhabitants will be tormented day and night forever and ever (Revelation 20:10). In hell, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, indicating intense grief and anger (Matthew 13:42). It is a place “where the worm never dies and the fire never goes out” (Mark 9:48). God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but desires them to turn from their wicked ways so that they can live (Ezekiel 33:11). But He will not force us into submission; if we choose to reject Him, He has little choice but to give us what we want – to live apart from Him.

Answer 6

What happens to the spirit when a person dies? Psalm 146:4 says: "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish." When a person dies, his impersonal spirit does not go on existing in another realm as a spirit creature. It "returns to the true God who gave it." (Ecclesiastes 12:7) This means that any hope of future life for that person now rests entirely with God.

Adam "came to be a living soul," says Genesis 2:7. He did not receive a soul; he was a soul—a whole person. The Scriptures speak of a soul's doing work, craving food, being kidnapped, experiencing sleeplessness, and so forth. (Leviticus 23:30; Deuteronomy 12:20; 24:7; Psalm 119:28) Yes, man himself is a soul. When a person dies, that soul dies.—Ezekiel 18:4.

The condition of the dead is made clear at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, where we read: "The dead know nothing . . . In the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom."

Since the dead have no conscious existence, hell cannot be a fiery place of torment where the wicked suffer after death. What, then, is hell? Examining what happened to Jesus after he died helps to answer that question. The Bible writer Luke recounts: "Neither was [Jesus] forsaken in Hades [hell, King James Version] nor did his flesh see corruption."* (Acts 2:31) Where was the hell to which even Jesus went? The apostle Paul wrote: "I handed on to you . . . that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, yes, that he has been raised up the third day according to the Scriptures." (1 Corinthians 15:3, 4) So Jesus was in hell, the grave, but he was not abandoned there, for he was raised up, or resurrected.

Revelation 20:13 states: "The sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Hades gave up those dead in them." Yes, the Bible hell will be emptied. As Jesus promised, "the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear [Jesus'] voice and come out." (John 5:28, 29) Although no longer presently existing in any form, millions of dead ones who are in Jehovah God's memory will be resurrected, or brought back to life, in a restored earthly paradise.—Luke 23:43; Acts 24:15.

In the new world of God's making, resurrected humans who comply with his righteous laws will never need to die again. (Isaiah 25:8) Jehovah "will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore." In fact, "the former things [will] have passed away." (Revelation 21:4) What a blessing is in store for those in hell—"the memorial tombs"! This blessing indeed is reason enough for us to take in more knowledge of Jehovah God and his Son, Jesus Christ.—John 17:3.

If you pleased Jehovah God, then you will go to heaven. If not, you die forever - you will not be granted eternal life, that is the punishment.

Answer 7

God will forgive us all of our sins. That's why he sent Jesus. Only those who follow the Dark Lord will fall into the Pit. I do not fear Hell or those who follow Satan. I know God will save us from him. All we can do is be good to our neighbours and hope they see what we are doing is the right thing. As long as we don't push the Lord or Jesus onto people, they will see. They must find Him on their own.

Answer 8

Hell is more than that, hell is more likely as your worst nightmare but made alive. I have heard through different testimonials that in hell your worst torture is what was your "main" sin on earth,
i.e i was a drunken guy and i don't repent from my sins i'm destined to hell with a very possible "alcohol torture"... that is an example of the tortures...

But as Hell is your worst nightmare that way Heaven is your best dream ever to come alive, just as in hell you has to commit your sin again and again in heaven you just commit your desires alive like flying or like breathing underwater... and i go beyond, even showing your full talent potential to Jesus face-to-face...

Answer 9

Hell is whatever YOU make it, not Pastor Swindoll. The Pastor may believe he knows, but no one on Earth knows with any certainty. Hell could actually be this place.

Answer 10

Why would you have a physical burning feeling in hell when you have no flesh?

I'd think it would be more of an inner torture, much like someone scraping nails on a chalkboard and listening to Paris Hilton singing after she smokes crack.