2007-08-23 12:09:19 · 25 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How can you give me a glimpse of hell in a dream? Can you enter my mind? Also How do you know it isn't Hades you are referring to?
2007-08-23 12:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Like any other human being, I have had many dreams, some good, some bad. Never have I assumed God gave them to me. What goes on in my mind is strictly my business. If I had dreams of Hell, I would immediately know that I had dreams of Hell. There's nothing about nightmares that even suggests God is possible. ...quite the opposite, in fact. My mind, and whatever it imagines, is entirely self-contained within my brain.
2007-08-23 12:21:28 · answer #2 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I die, I will cease to exist. Just so we're clear on that. Now, if I'm wrong and you're right and God exists AND you happen to believe in the right God AND you happen to believe in the correct interpretation of your God AND you're not standing right next to me also being banished to hell for your failure to be properly humble and loving as Jesus told his followers to be... then I would be content to go along with whatever God says. If God says I should get a glimpse of heaven before going to hell, I'm fine with that. If he sends me straight to hell without seeing heaven, I'm fine with that, too. See, if God really is in charge and decrees that I am to be punished in hell for all eternity, then it's really His call and what I want doesn't matter. But I also know Jesus says in the Bible that the last shall be first and the first shall be last, so your assuming that you're going to heaven and I'm going to hell may be setting you up for a HUGE disappointment. I'm just sayin'.
2016-05-21 02:31:12 · answer #3 · answered by elly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maurice, if you were to ever suffer from night terrors, it might be easy to convince you that you got a little glimpse of hell three nights a week.
I have a dark and twisted mind. There's no telling what it might come up with. My convoluted, crazy nightmares aren't proof of anything.
Except that I probably need psychological help. :)
2007-08-23 12:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How would God give me a glimpse of hell if I don't believe in it. And how would you know that it's hell, when it's probably just a nightmare?
2007-08-23 12:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by . 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where is your empirical proof that dreams are at the behest of a deity? Perhaps it is because dreams are the minds way of sorting through, making sense and categorizing the events that had occurred that day that I don't believe in deities popping into my head.
2007-08-23 12:21:18 · answer #6 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a glimpse of the USS Enterprise in a dream. Should that convince me Klingons exist?
2007-08-23 12:23:25 · answer #7 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If a god actually made him/herself literally visible for everyone to see and hear, you would have to be mentally handicapped to refuse his/her existence.
However, these fictitious characters always have some reasoning behind their anonymity.
God from Christianity is in heaven because apparently to look upon him would destroy our fragile human forms. Pretty convenient huh?
If I were God, I'd absolutely make myself known to the world throughout the entirety of time. No questions asked.
2007-08-23 12:20:52 · answer #8 · answered by Prochoice 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well i'd think that at least be enough to turn an atheist to an agnostic....
but if an atheist had that sort of dream, they'd assume it is just their subconscious saying they are not confident in thier stance as an atheist. they are not a militant athiest.
probably maybe they'd be an agnostic in order to have such a dream
2007-08-23 12:19:59 · answer #9 · answered by MooMooooooo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe.
http://www.spiritlessons.com/Documents/BillWiese_23MinutesInHell_Text.htm
2007-08-23 12:22:26 · answer #10 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋