Do you believe in hell?

Answer 1

I believe it exists. But I don't subscribe to it as a fan, if that's what you mean.

Answer 2

Unfortunately yes.

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.

Answer 3

Yes.

The concept 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.

Answer 4

Yes. Jesus, while on earth, often spoke of hell.
He called it a fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. He also refers to it as eternal fire. (see book of Matthew)