If you're gonna spend a whole eternity in the Lake of Fire....?

Question

... wouldn't it start feeling comfy sooner or later. I mean, it's all eternity isn't it? So we have all eternity to get used to it and even enjoy it..

Answer 1

Nah to the X-ian mythos - next option please.

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Answer 2

There is no eternity in the Lake of Fire at all ! Examine the Scriptures, and you will see :

"14Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." Revelation 20: 14 - 15 ( NIV )

The lake of fire is clearly a second death and is not the whole eternity.

So people have to choose between eternal life, and destruction of both their bodies and souls into the lake of fire.

So if you want to enjoy, the Kingdom of Joy is Better. Because God is Joy.

"1 The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, 2 it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the LORD,
the splendor of our God.
3 Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;

4 say to those with fearful hearts,
"Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you."

5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

6 Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.

7 The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

8 And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it;
it will be for those who walk in that Way;
wicked fools will not go about on it.

9 No lion will be there,
nor will any ferocious beast get up on it;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,

10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away. "

Isaiah 35: 1 - 10 ( NIV )

Amen

Answer 3

I don't get your point. Ecclesiastes 9:5 says the dead are conscious of NOTHING at all! So if your dead and cast into Gehenna (i.e. eternal destruction) how would you be FEELING anything? I think organized religion has twisted the words of wisdom horribly! Don't confuse writer's symbolic prose with literal meaning. The writer was just trying to convey the SERIOUSNESS of God casting Satan and ALL of his disobedient followers into Gehenna. So basically watch what path you follow. Eat from the table of God not Satan and you won't have to... Kinda' a simple rule like the one God gave Adam about not eating from a particular fruit tree... Not rocket science. Sounds pretty fair and balanced to me.

BTW Gehenna and Hades (i.e. Sheol, Hell) are two different things. Hell is just the state of common death but Gehenna is a state of utter and total destruction. Hellfire is a myth created by the early Catholic church to scare pagan converts over to the UNIVERSAL (aka Catholica) religion invented by Emperor Constantine of Rome in 325 C.E. The devil and his angels (demons) DOES NOT reside in HELL - another myth created to scare. He and his angels were cast down to EARTH to test us like Job for a relatively short while after a great war in heaven.

So they may be right in your room watching you read this. Fortunately (for you) there are probably obedient angels there too looking out over you to protect you from them NOT a car accident or plane crash JUST from them. Guardian angels do exist as Jesus said they do but not for the sundry reasons you may think. Another myth created to give false hope in the wrong things. NEVER worship angels ONLY God!

The church has a lot to answer for during the Judgment Period...

Answer 4

I'm not going to spend eternity in the Lake of Fire so I guess I wouldn't know. Would it really be worth it to find out ?

Answer 5

Hell is eternally icy cold! It's a place where there is no warmth or light of any kind. Just complete jet blackness that only the ray of hope can possibly penetrate. There is no motion, even thought is slowed to a standstill! It's a place of unrelenting perpetual regret and remorse. It's never ending and forever. Why do you think they send all the marines there when they die in combat? Pay back is HELL!

Answer 6

The Lake of Fire is a symbolic place. A person or spirit condemned to the this place becomes non-existent. What worse eternal torment than being forgotten forever.

Answer 7

The teaching that there is an eternal hell in which hordes of mankind will suffer eternal punishment can be a difficult doctrine to accept. We hear so much about God's infinite love and how He desires that all men be saved (1 Tim. 2:4). However, those who develop their theologies based upon the "gentle" side of God do so with an incomplete picture. Not only is God loving (1 John 4:8-10), gracious (Exo. 33:19; 1 Pet. 2:3), and merciful (Exodus 34:6; Psalm 67:1; James 5:11), but He is also holy (Isaiah 6:3; Rev. 4:8), just ( Neh. 9:32-33; 2 Thess. 1:6), and hates sin (Psalm 5:5-6; Hab. 1:13). God punishes the sinner (Jer. 50:31; Ez. 44:12; Matt. 25:46; 2 Thess. 1:9; 2 Pet. 2:9; Heb. 10:29).
The Bible teaches that there is a fiery hell, a place that Jesus warned people about.

"And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the eternal fire," (Matt. 18:8).

Eternal fire is real. Jesus said it was. In fact, Jesus spoke a great deal about hell. It is what Jesus came here to save us from.
There will be a Day of Judgment when all people will face God. Those who are not covered by the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross will be cast out into hell where they will undergo eternal punishment. "And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life" (Matt. 25:46). In this verse, the same word "eternal" is used to describe the punishment of the wicked as well as the eternal life of the believer. The punishment is endless as is the eternal life of the believer. That is why the gospel (1 Cor. 15:1-4) is so important, because it saves people from eternal damnation:

Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life, (John 5:24).

Following are a few verses that show the eternality of the hell and punishment. God uses different phrases to describe the same thing.

"And these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power," (2 Thess. 1:9).
"Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire" (Jude 7).
These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness

Answer 8

You have got to be kidding. Try putting your whole hand on a burning stove for about 10 seconds, you would scream in agony, now try and imagine all over your body and a worse pain for eternigy and you tell me you will get used to it, You will be screaming in so much torment you wish you could die but you don't. But you can excape that and except Jesus as your Saviour and Lord and Friend. Jesus is the best as he will not let you down. The Father is the best too. You need to repent of your sins and turn fromt hem and let Jesus live inside your heart, then you will not have to go to that place of sheer horror beyond your imagination.

Answer 9

Hell was made for the devil and his angels, NOT mankind! If people go there it is because they did not accept the free gift of salvation which Jesus earned for us on the cross and by His resurrection. Friend.....please don't take these matters lightly. They are vitally serious. Come to the Lord and have eternal life with Him!

Answer 10

Good Point... and all the lakes I know of would put out the fire.

Answer 11

It is truly amazing how many people buy into this Hell crap, I feel sorry for them.
They are truly scared shitless , what a horrible way to live life ,in total fear, how sad!