2007-05-31 08:35:00 · 14 answers · asked by ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻ 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is such a place, christians just differ over what kind of place it is.
2007-05-31 23:12:43 · answer #1 · answered by Princess 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There IS a hell. It's right here. Earth.
No . . . REALLY!
God cast Satan out of heaven and into hell, right?
Well, as you'll recall, God created EVERYTHING in 6 days and rested on the 7th. Adam and Eve were among his creations.
Yet Satan (in the form of the serpent) was right there in Eden, tempting Eve with the apple.
If Satan had a history with God that resulted in him being cast out of heaven . . . yet he's there in Eden, so soon after creation . . . then it must be that Earth is the hell Satan was cast into.
In comparison to the sublime perfection of heaven, Earth is hell indeed.
All the above is facetious and tongue-in-cheek to point out the ridiculousness of Hell. There is no Hell, there is no Heaven. These are merely ideas which serve to lead mankind by the nose while they waste the ONE life they'll ever have.
Take your place in the world and live life the way you know is right. There is no advice that's right for everybody. Being a good person makes THIS life worthwhile by attracting other good people. Just watch out for the bad guys, okay?
2007-06-07 19:39:12 · answer #2 · answered by Seeker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell is where the other fellow goes. Hell is what awaits people who dare to believe differently than yourself.
How could anyone sit around enjoying Paradise, if their loved ones are screaming in Hell?
How could any God be so cruel as to cast any person into eternal fire? Even the harshest judge doles out sentences of varying lengths, but God is so severe the sentence is always eternal.
Where is this fire? Is it perched on a cloud somewhere, burning carbons in the atmosphere? Or is it tucked into the center of the earth, glowing and burning?
If we have left our earthly bodies behind, what's left to burn?
I like to think that, if there is a God, he would be compassionate and kind. He would understand the reasons for any behavior, understand the differences in beliefs, intelligence, circumstances, etc.
Yet those who believe in Hell make God out to be an Ogre, casting poor demented, twisted and retarded folks who haven't the brains to understand a Kindergarten Primer into Hell for all eternity!
Why is it some people enjoy threatening doom and gloom and fiery hell for others who do not agree with their beliefs? Note that they believe they will bask in the glory of paradise, strumming on harps.
Christians believe Muslims will go to hell, if they do not change their ways.
Muslims believe Christians are infidels and will end up in hell, while they bask in the good will of Allah!
Each religious belief has dire and dreadful fates awaiting the non-Believer.
Hell serves a purpose here on earth, because it threatens punishment for bad behavior. But your faith and beliefs depend primarily upon where you were born. Born in the Middle East, you would undoubtedly grow up Muslim. Born in the African wilds, you might be dancing to the Sun God. In the South Pacific, you might be waiting for John Frum to toss that cargo from a plane.
What is Hell? Who knows? But we should try not to create it here on Earth!
2007-06-08 06:08:44 · answer #3 · answered by Me, Too 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you take the time to research Hell you will find that it does exist in the Bible it is mentioned by name at least 15 times look in Matthew chapter 5 verses 22,29,and 30, chapter 10 verse 30,chapter 18 verse 9, chapter 23 verses 15 and 33 Mark chapter 9 verses 43,45,47, Luke chapter 12 verse 5, chapter 16 verse 23, James chapter 3 verse 6, and 2Peter chapter 2 verse 4, it is also referred to as the lake of fire in Revelations chapter 20 verses 14, and 15. If you want to know more go to http://www.av1611.org/hell.html
2007-06-08 07:04:59 · answer #4 · answered by phansenleach 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish that were true.
The concept of hell is basic to Christianity, especially Catholicism.
+++What do Catholics believe about hell?+++
Contrary to leading Catholic apologists, spin doctors and pr agents, the official Catholic position on hell is very clear.
"Hell is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanize the faithful," Pope Benedict XVI recently said.
Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, the Pope said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if they failed to "admit blame and promise to sin no more," they risked "eternal damnation - the Inferno."
See:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21460090-2,00.html
So any talk about a place in the absence of god, is mere window dressing. The Pope is emphatic concerning Hell being a place of eternal torture for Catholic and christian doctrine.
+++The goal of creating/maintaining hell on earth+++
But arguably the most important policy of the Vatican remains the maintenance of hell on earth, through the perpetuation of war, hunger, disease, division and deliberate suppression of enlightened thinking.
See the Almanac of Evil for a summary of nearly 20 centuries of evil perpetrated by Popes and the Catholic Church towards this singular aim.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/end_of_darkness/evil/evil_0160.htm
+++Why? What did Jesus think?+++
Jesus founded the Nazarenes, also known as the gnostics.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/nazarenes/nazarenes_0010.htm
Jesus believed the god of the old testament was not god, but satan, the ultimate deceiver pretending to be god.
This of course makes perfect sense, for any god that commands its followers to kill, has to be twisted and evil. Any God that is "jealous" is "vengeful" clearly cannot be the creator of the universe, but some lesser deity.
However, the Sadducee High Priests with Paul of Tarsus created the parasite religion called christianity to deceive even those who thought they follow Jesus.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0000.htm
So if a person truly follows Jesus, then they would reject the Bible of Paul of Tarsus. Because any person who believes the Bible supports the primary enemy of Jesus.
With love in the Real Jesus, the Christ.
2007-06-07 01:38:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says there is a hell.How come you know there is not such a place? If there is no hell then there is no heaven either.
2007-06-08 08:20:02 · answer #6 · answered by Don Verto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I propose that the final answer to if there is a hell, or heaven, or God, rests in a later time - only those who have died know for sure. The rest BELEIVE in something - and that gives some strength (by positive or negative motivation) to live certain ways, to have purpose. It is certainly motivating to believe in Hell, and it might just keep some people out of trouble, so, whats the real harm?
2007-06-01 13:21:13 · answer #7 · answered by Terri 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is such a place as hell. (I'm not christian I'm LDS) and you cant just sit on your lazy butt all day sinning and saying " i cant go to hell because there is no such place!!!" if there is no hell, there is no devil, if there is no devil then where do you think sin came from!!?? were do you think drugs, achohal, abuse, people who question their believe? do you think it came from god?? its TEMPTATION!!! people who think that there is no hell are being tempted by satin himself. hes telling you that you cant do anything wrong because you cant go to hell. so do drugs and abuse people b/c you cant go to hell b/c ther is no sin! think about it! you really think there is no hell!? im just a teenager......how old are you saying CRAP like that?
2007-06-07 13:14:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The doctrine of hell is basic Christianity.
No one really knows what hell is like. It has been described by people who have not been there as everything from flames to a frozen lake (Dante).
Hell is the state of complete and final self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed, reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives
I like to think of it this way. The only way a person will go to hell is if they want to.
God in His (or Her) unlimited love has given us free will to choose. Our most important choice is to freely decide to accept or reject God's constant offer of spending eternity with Him in heaven. God will respect the choice to reject Him.
With love in Christ.
2007-06-06 17:26:04 · answer #9 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adviously you have not read the bible. Read Revelation, Hell itself is not mentioned. But the Lake of fire for all sinners is.
This is when God will judge everyone who has ever existed, judge them and those who deserve will be thrown into the lake of fire.
2007-06-08 07:59:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋