Are heaven and hell a state of mind? Or a place you actually go when you die?

Answer 1

I wouldn't call "the afterlife" either a physical reality or a 'state of mind'. I'd call it a figment of the human mind (imagination).

This is obviously the question that is WHY people believe what they believe in most religions... and it's also one of the things I doubt anyone will ever know for certain.

It's highly unlikely, based on observations we've made about the cosmos and physical laws, that there could exist anywhere such places as "Heaven" and "Hell".

Accepting the physical "afterlife" would take LOTS of evidence and testing and explanations, none of which we've seen signs of yet...

Answer 2

I do not believe in an afterlife. I believe that both heaven and hell are experienced while we are alive here on Earth. Once we die, there is no more living of any kind. We go back to the state we were in before being born: nonexistence. Both heaven and hell, in the sense that I stated, are real. Each person will have their own version of heaven or hell. Some are born into it, some create their own, some seem to fall into it at some point in life. Both places can be entered and exited numerous times.

Answer 3

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I think they"re both... kind of. I would say heaven or hell are more states of being than states of mind. I personally have a great deal of faith that there places beside this earthly realm. These other realms are our destinies. I think earth is filled with the hot cold, and the lukewarm. When we die the chaff is separated from the wheat and oh boy are some people going to be hot then. I bet if one were to believe holy people truly exist, and if one were so inclined anyone could find a holy person. Ask that person if they believe heaven as place exists. In any case the holy spirit comes dwell within us and thats a place right?

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Are heaven and hell a state of mind? Or a place you actually go when you die?

Answer 5

If the two where real then our limited imagination couldn't grasp what they look like. I believe Heaven and hell are a state of mind. Those who are mentally I'll can often live a hellish existence filled with pain and for those on the opposite side live relatively harmonious life's. Hell can also be a state of existence in which someone is suffering in either mentally, physically or both. These people are either in pain themselves or they sadistically inflict pain onto others but often to cover up a mental pain from a traumatic event in their lifes. Heaven can also be a person living a healthy, peaceful and happy life. But if your not satisfied or you think that what I am saying is totally stupid then yes. Though I wouldn't care if they where real, Heaven and hell are real for all of you Christians out their.

Answer 6

When you die U return back to the dust of the ground. U wait there sleep (dead) until the Resurrection. everyone that ever died is in the dust of the ground. now!,..hell is a state of condition ( when things are going wrong in a persons life), but there is a place called the Lake Of Fire, where the wicked goes into. Everyone who make the cut ( the righteous people in their life) will make it in the kingdom of god,which will be on the earth in New Jerusalem. Not in Heaven where the lord is Now. The kingdom of god is coming down from god out of heaven. Plain & Simple. U Must Read your bible, and don't believe what u may have heard.

Answer 7

Heaven and hell are not "places" as we understand the term. Heaven and hell existed before the universe was created, before time and space existed, and therefore before there was any such thing as "places", since "places" as we understand the term exist in time and require space. Also, heaven and hell will exist forever, while the physical universe will cease to exist. Whether heaven and hell are "spaces" in some other sense we don't understand, or are "states of existence" really won't matter to us once we arrive there.

Answer 8

The Bible tells us that there is not only life after death, but eternal life so glorious that “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, came to the earth to give us this gift of eternal life. “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5).
Hell, like heaven, is not only a state of existence, but a literal, and very real, place. It is a place where the unrighteous will experience never-ending, eternal wrath from God. They will endure emotional, mental, and physical torment, consciously suffering from shame, regret, and contempt.
Hell is described as a bottomless pit (Luke 8:31, Revelation 9:1), and a lake of fire, burning with sulfur, where the inhabitants will be tormented day and night forever and ever (Revelation 20:10). In hell, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, indicating intense grief and anger (Matthew 13:42). It is a place “where the worm never dies and the fire never goes out” (Mark 9:48). God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but desires them to turn from their wicked ways so that they can live (Ezekiel 33:11). But He will not force us into submission; if we choose to reject Him, He has little choice but to give us what we want – to live apart from Him.

Answer 9

Heaven is an actual place, in fact there are three heavens. The atmosphere where humans, animals, and plants can live is the "first heaven". The second heaven is what we call "outer-space", and the third heaven is where God's throne is located.

The English word "hell" simply means "the place of the dead" or grave, not an everburning place where people are alive and suffering. The people who believe in eternal punishment are mis-informed by organized religion that likes to rule their flocks with fear. God gives us the choice of eternal life or eternal death, but not both. The wages of sin is DEATH, not eternal life jumping from one hot rock to another.

Answer 10

Pope John Paul II stated "The images of hell that Sacred Scripture presents to us must be correctly interpreted. They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. Rather than a place, Hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy". I hope this helps.