i'm a Christian. just trying to see what others think. do you think it'll will be a big pit of fire like the Bible describes it as, or could it be one of the metaphors in the Bible? i've heard a fellow Christian say that you could just be there, without any fire, and be suffering because you'll be without God and the fires are just a way to explain the pain to us humans. this does sound reasonable. what do you think?
2007-06-13 13:48:07 · 29 answers · asked by Jennifer 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thanks to those who gave me an actual opinion. i asked this question for Christians- i didnt need to be bombarded with "there is no hell so its whatever"s. i am a Christian, i know my religion, it was just one question to fellow Christians, and all a sudden i get attacked?
2007-06-13 13:59:51 · update #1
I believe it does not matter what hell is. Whether hell is fire and brimstone or cold does not matter. I believe that hell will be a separation from God himself.I have known Gods love for so long the very thought of be separated form his love would be the worse thing that could ever happen to a person. I have experienced the extremes of heat and the extremes of cold.But to be separated from Gods Love that would be a hell of unmentionable proportions
2007-06-13 14:08:50 · answer #1 · answered by redrocker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bless your heart, honey, an honest question deserves an honest answer. Hell is a real place according to the Bible. It is a place of complete separation from God.
If that seems rather innocuous, consider what this world would be like if God left us on our own. Anarchy would mushroom!
Hell is also a place of torment, the Bible says that too. I think we Christians ought to take the Bible for what it says, period, and not try to analyze it.
I realize this is difficult when we deal with so many who scoff at the Bible, but it is not impossible.
Those who are born again in Jesus will never experience the horrors of hell. Hell was created for the devil and his angels.........but is being enlarged for all those who deny the Lord Jesus.
This is Scriptural!!
GOD's richest blessings to you !!
2007-06-13 21:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament & New Testament describe Hell and The Lake of Fire where all non-believers, Satan, The False Prophet, and all of Satan's angels will be tossed in alive and live there in eternal darkness, flames, brimstone smoke, and torment from Satan and his angels for all eternity.
Hell and The Lake of Fire are REAL, ACTUAL places.
Hell is where non-believers go who die before the final Great White Throne Judgment. The Lake of Fire is the permanent punishment and closed up punishment of eternal flames, burning torment, darkness & torture by Satan and his demons for forever.
Use your Holy Bible's Concordance and look up Hell and Lake of Fire and you will see all the verses and all the detailed scriptures that describe what both are and what they are like in detail.
2007-06-13 21:27:11 · answer #3 · answered by faith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not religious, actually, but I have thought this over and this is my conclusion.
Okay, so, in the beginning, there was god, and he made all this stuff. He made angels. A group of angels questioned his authority and they were thrown from god's presence. So far as I see it, angels were made by god to serve god. God is the source of all good things.
I read once that the original meaning of despair was to be seperated from god, following this belief. When you are feeling sad, following this line of thought, it is because your actions or emotions are pushing you away from god. When someone dies, you are unhappy, because you're anger at god pushes you from his light. When you are estatic, it is because you are close to god, and that alone will bring you bliss. ANyway, back to the angels.
For these beings, created to live in god's light all the time, to be without it would be excruciating. I read once somewhere else that those who sin go to hell because god cannot stand their presence. Option two: that they go there because their guilt sends them there, their denial of their sins is a denial of god's law, so they are unable to reunite with him, as their disbelief pushes them from him. Either way, when you go to hell, you go to a place lacking the presence of god, who is the source of all good. That is torture in itself. No way the fallen angels are doing it. They are too involved in their own suffering(which is probably greater than that of humans, given the way they were made).
You might not notice how much you depend on the sun until you stumble into a deep cave and freeze to death, unable to escape because you can't see.
Also, I don't mean that this is a physical place since obviously, two people right next to each other can be in very different frames of mind, one can be in the depths of despair while the other is blissful.
I think the whole burning pits of hell thing was alot easier to scare people with. It takes no time to explain, and almost everyone knows what a burn feels like. A metaphor of convenience.
At least that's my take on the christian hell. Of course, I am not a christian, so perhaps I am not the one to listen to.
2007-06-13 21:23:58 · answer #4 · answered by Blearg 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fire and Brimstone. The gnashing of teeth! The screaming of human souls crying out to a wrathful God. Pained voices crying out for forgiveness. Sounds fun huh?
2007-06-13 20:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no thers no fire. fire hurts the skin, and after you die, you have no skin.
hell is simply pure suffering. if you were mentally are afraid of fire, then you will see that.
metaphors and paintings are mans interpretation and of course the english translation of something that nobody has actually seen and made it back alive to tell us about.
if you see heaven and paradise as the ultimate in good, light, and pleasure. hell should be exactly the opposite of that.
2007-06-13 20:52:30 · answer #6 · answered by juanita m 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hell is not a pit of torment. It is just a word for putting something under the ground. Look it up and you'll see. Burning hell came from people trying to control other people.
2007-06-13 20:53:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
If Earth is flat, as some fundies say it is, and if Hell is "down there," as some fundies say it is, it must also be flat. Either that or a chunk of south Alabama swamp.
2007-06-13 21:03:55 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree..... Hell is a firey, burning pit that is eternal, and you will be suffering forever, without God.... that sounds just plain awful, doesn't it?
2007-06-13 20:52:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't . It's a fable.
You said, "I'm a christian, I want to know what others think" You did not say, "I only want to know what other christians think"
2007-06-13 21:03:30 · answer #10 · answered by punch 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋