what is the difference between heaven and hell, and where is hell located?

Question

According to theology there is a physical world where all living creatures have their being, and a meta-physical world where the non-living exist. Further, our deeds in this life greatly determine what level of the meta-physical (spiritual world) our spirit will transcend. Godly spirits transcend to heaven, and good people transcend to paradice, while dumb spirits walk around on earth trying to resolve things and take care of unfinished business, and the evil go to hell. My question is simply; where are heaven, paradise, and hell located?

Answer 1

Hell is inside yourself.

The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
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Answer 2

Many religions believe in an afterlife. Heaven and Hell describe a destination after death.

Some Christians believe that hell is a physical place. Some believe that, while hell is real, it is a state, rather than a place, of separation from God. Either way, hell is an afterlife in which the soul suffers the consequences of sin.

Heaven and Hell are actually two sides of the same thing. The very concept of "God" is that God is everything...and therefore one thing. Putting this together, Heaven and Hell are just perception of God. It is a Judeo-Christian belief that there will be a judgement. In this, everyone's life will be evaluated.

In Hebrew, Sheol (שאול, Sh'ol) is the "abode of the dead", the "underworld", "the common grave of mankind" or "pit". In the Hebrew Bible, it is a comfortless place beneath the earth, beyond gates, where both the bad and the good, slave and king, pious and wicked must go after death to sleep in silence and oblivion in the dust.

Basically, Hell is reality without the presence of "God", where Heaven is simply reality in complete connection to "God". It is portrayed as a place of eternal torment - every possible torture and atrocity that you can imagine will be inflicted on you, forever.

Is it an actual physical location? Some seem to think so. Some people believe that Hell is located at the center of the Earth (there was even a story some years ago about Russian miners going so deep that they heard the screams of the damned). You can understand how this belief came about - thousands of years ago, people seeing erupting volcanoes probably thought that Hell was leaking. It gave them a startling insight into the world below. This could well be how the whole Burning In Hellfire idea came about.

The phrase "Bosom of Abraham" is found in Luke 16:19-23 in Yeshuah’s parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. It refers to the place of comfort in sheol (Greek: hades) where the Jews said the righteous dead awaited Judgment Day.

Here is the story: "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.' But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony. Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.' He said, 'Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house--for I have five brothers--that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.' Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.' He said, 'No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"

Answer 3

Earth
Evils electric chair, the most perfect created living machine for sentencing and execution.
All in one place.
A nice surface for the arena of satan to
prove god wrong.
And a nice secure prison using the forces of gravity along with miles of mass too hot
and too thick to dig through.
I believe it right under our feet.
How can you cast anything down in the universe? It would have to be on the earth.
2 Peter:
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Id have to say heaven for now is somewhere way out yonder...
for now but supposed to move down on the earth.
As in Rev 21...
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

No more ocean unbelievable, heaven must be pretty big.

Answer 4

Before Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross, Paradise was in Sheol, or near Hell. After the cross, Jesus visited Sheol, or Paradise and rescued the occupants, got the keys to Hell and left those in Hell there. Hell is in the center of the earth, Heaven is to the north of earth, (some say a planet), and will be on the new earth (after Armageddon) and the new city of Jerusalem will descend to earth along with God and Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of God, which Jesus preached will then exist forever on earth. Praise God.

Answer 5

Heaven will soon be here on earth. Hell is the eternal pit of burning souls who God chooses on judgement day to banish from heaven. Paradise is just another way of saying heaven. There are only a few chosen ones in heaven for now. God, Jesus, Elijah and the others that God transferred staight to heaven. Others are buried in their graves until Jesus comes again.

Answer 6

The physical and metaphysical are one in the same. There are no literal physical manifestations of heaven and hell, but they exist in your own spirituality. Maybe Western religion is a method to keep the average Joe in good moral shape - if laws won't prevent a person from doing a crime, let them believe their moral actions will affect them for eternity.

Answer 7

i totally believe the bible is nothing but a story. Heaven and hell are metaphors for "where you're at" physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually at any given time and any given place. Think of it as right and wrong or good and bad. It's too bad Christians and other religious zealots have taken "the word" for a way too literal interpretation.

Answer 8

The most practical way to approach this is to simply figure out if you want mortal life on earth to be "heaven" or "hell", because whatever you make of it now is probably going to be where you end up.

Answer 9

The closest thing to heaven would be making love with J Lo. The closest thing to hell is being cooped up with a car full of Jesus freaks

Answer 10

They exist in fantasy and in the minds of the willfully delusional.

They're simply two manufactured realms which play upon the most base of human instincts: reward versus punishment.

Do good things (ie: what society wants) in life, and you'll be rewarded with immortality and get to live in Happyland forever.
Do bad things (ie: what society doesn't want) and a demon will sodomize you with a chainsaw forever.

Ect. ect.

They're basically just meant to steer human behavior and control the masses.