Do you believe in Hell (as an afterlife)? And do you really believe that good people sometimes get sent there

Answer 1

Really hard to say. Where do all our criminals go when they finally leave this earth, has God forgiven them tjheir sins as is stated in the Bible, or have they been sent directly to the Gates of Hell to pay for these sins. How will we ever to be able to answer this question honestly.

Answer 2

Yes I believe Hell is a real place. It is inhabited by the Devil and his servants (demons) and is the place that a human soul goes when it rejects God's grace.

What do you mean by "good people?" No one is really good. We are all sinners. Only by uniting our actions to Christ can anything that we do be considered good.

If you mean decent people, like guys who help old ladies across the street....yes, those people can and do go to Hell because doing "nice" things once in a while is not what we were put on Earth to do.

We are here to love and serve our Father and be happy with Him in Heaven. If we choose not to serve Him, there's only one other choice - serve ourselves...and Satan.

By the way, a Christian can go to Hell just as any other man can. Salvation can be lost when one commits a mortal sin. So the Christian must fight a daily battle to win Heaven.

Many fundamentalists would disagree with me there, but that is the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the biblical teaching of Jesus Christ.

Answer 3

If we look at how our society works in dealing with people who commit bad acts we can see that it is not as perfect as it could be,while some people do get jailed for a crime they did not commit, generally it gets it right and after a fair trial and all the evidence is weighed up justice is usually done, now God is perfect and knows everything about us even those things we have forgotten and we cannot fool Him, but just as His mercy is perfect so is His justice and no-one will get sent to Hell who does not deserve to, someone once remarked that he would rather get judged by God than his own Mother, God is infinitely more merciful.

Answer 4

I do not believe in hell.

I do not believe that a all-knowing, all-merciful, all-powerful, all-wise god would send anybody to hell.

But, according to my Christian friends, there is a hell and god will send you there if you do not believe in him and in his son. Therefore, under that theory - good people can easily be sent to hell and bad people can easily be sent to heaven.

This is one of the major reasons, with all due respect, that I can not accept Christianity as being true.

Answer 5

the word "believe" by it self insinuates "not sure". Things are forever including life in one form or the other. The concept of heaven and hell was introduced by the mankind to keep things in order through fear. We will exist in one form or the other. My moto "live a good life and if there is heaven then you are a shoe in and if there is no concept of heaven- well then you lived a good life" win win situation

Answer 6

The idea we have about hell was taken from Dante's "The Divine Comedy". Until then the church did not have any specific doctrine about it. The word "gehena" that was translated as hell, actually means "dump, or place to toss the discards".

Answer 7

I believe in hell, but its not fire, its not about wild sex parties, it has no levels. It is being alive and conscious in total darkness, alone and separated from God.

Eventually, all people will go to heaven.

The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 8

nope not hell
I do believe in levels of spirit world
and those who need more lessons or healing etc are sent
but they can always progress and develop and move through the levels
no eternal punishment

Answer 9

I think that believers exist with God forever, and nonbelievers just cease to exist.

Answer 10

Yes. To both.

For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.