if so what would your own personal version of hell be?
2007-05-20 03:07:53 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, Hell does not exist. The concept of hell as a place of everlasting torment is not Biblical.
The wicked will simply die and cease to exist:
Ro 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die......
2007-05-20 15:24:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell can only exist if you believe in heaven. Without the one there would be no need for the other.
2007-05-20 03:50:46 · answer #2 · answered by itsmyitch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Every time I'm accosted by a Christian who damns we to Hell for refusing to be controlled by them, ow sorry when I refuse to believe in what they do. If Hell is real then I will be so grateful as I will finally be free of Christians, and that will be true heaven!
2007-05-20 03:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by Eye see! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The People in IRAQ would most likely say "YES, as we are living in it".
My personal version of HELL would be any GODLESS place - Examples: Vatican City, Jerusalem, Mecca, Iraq, Somalia, ANY Mosque, Synagogue, Church or Temple, etc...
2007-05-20 03:34:15 · answer #4 · answered by John Trent 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Despite rumors to the contrary, hell is still a doctrine in Catholic theology. One who purposely rejects God chooses not to enjoy an eternity of friendship with the Lord. This is the basic notion of hell - cutting oneself off from God.
The existence of hell or separation from God is very real. However, what form hell assumes or in what manner a damned person will suffer, is open to debate. No one has come back to report the temperature in hell. And no human can judge whether another is damned.
Theologians suggest that hell be seen as a state of total rejection of God. Like heaven, it is not a place and is not subject to time.
In grappling with the issue of hell, one needs to remember that it is an issue, which remains in the realm of mystery, a truth not yet entirely revealed.
Peace and every blessing!
2007-05-20 03:18:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes but not as a place. Hell can be a reality in the here and now.
2007-05-20 09:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by dragonfly 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! It exists in your mind. My version of it would be waking up in the morning with a world full of women!
2007-05-20 04:49:03 · answer #7 · answered by djdundalk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell exists as a place without God. Since God is Knowledge, that means that Hell could be referred to as Ignorance. I can't think of any condition more painful than Ignorance, and I agree with the Christians that God (Knowledge) is the only One capable of Saving us from the eternal torment of Hell (Ignorance).
2007-05-20 03:25:00 · answer #8 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I like Sartre's and the Eskimos' concept of hell. Sartre's is being stuck in a room for eternity with other people just like ourselves. The Eskimos' is a frigid dark abyss. But as I joke here, I stop and think of some people living on earth now. No one could imagine a hell worse than what they suffer at the hands of other humans.
2007-05-20 03:18:48 · answer #9 · answered by jaicee 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some think Hell is a harmful doctrine which evil people in religious authority promulgated to club others into submission.
Just because evil people used it for unlawful purposes, does that make it an imaginary place? If people enticed others to murder with the reward of money, does that make money imaginary? Should we disbelieve simply because of they way people have used it in the past?
If a university threatened its students with expulsion for cheating, is expulsion evil and imaginary?
If the military threatened its officers with a dishonorable discharge on their records for cheating, is a dishonorable discharge a thing to scorned because it was used to bring some officers into submission?
I believe Hell is a real place because of the person who spoke of it, Jesus Christ. It's hard to find fault with a man whom God foretold would come a His representative. It's hard to deny Christ when God foretold His birthplace by name, mentioned the nature of His death, even the very words the people would use to rail at Him on the cross were written a thousand years before Christ came. So Jesus has been carefully introduced as God’s man thousands of years before be came. His veracity by God is unquestionable. We can trust what He has said about Hell more than anyone else.
Hell is a place of torment. It is not on earth, nor is it merely a mental state. It is for those who died in unbelief.
2007-05-20 03:16:59 · answer #10 · answered by Steve Husting 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋