Christians: Where is hell, and why can't I see it?

Answer 1

If you ask 10 Christians, you'll get 10 different answers.
They can't find heaven either.
Seems like everything they believe in is either illogical, or invisible.

Answer 2

Jehovah’s Witnesses have long held that hell, as the Bible teaches it, is simply the common grave of dead mankind—not a place of fiery torment. They hold this view, not because it is popular, but because of what the Bible says: “As for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . There is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [“hell,” Catholic Douay Version].”—Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10.

With this clear understanding regarding the condition of the dead, Charles Taze Russell, first president of the Watch Tower Society, wrote back in 1896: “We find [in the Bible] no such place of everlasting torture as the creeds and hymn-books, and many pulpits, erroneously teach. Yet we have found a ‘hell,’ sheol, hades, to which all our race were condemned on account of Adam’s sin, and from which all are redeemed by our Lord’s death; and that ‘hell’ is the tomb—the death condition.”

Thus for more than a century, Jehovah’s Witnesses have taught the Biblical truth about hell.

Answer 3

You know all those indie films that are based on the premise that there is no truth, no real difference between good and evil, and no purpose for anything? The ones that portray human existence as completely hopeless and futile, and tell the stories of people sinking deeper and deeper into evil with no way out?

The kind of existence those films portray is the closest thing to Hell you will ever see this side of the grave.

Answer 4

There is a city called Hell, in Norway, but I don't think that's the one you are referring to.
Probably the reason you can't see Hell is because you aren't dead yet, and either Heaven or Hell is part of a person's afterlife.

Answer 5

Sure you can see it. Sheol, Hades, Hell are all words in different languages for the same thing, the generic grave. Now whether the particular grave is in the ground or above it, cremation or at sea, even launched into space, it is our common grave. It is no fiery place of torture as according to the Bible, the dead can't experience pleasure or pain. They have no knowledge of anything. (Eccles. 9:5,10)

Answer 6

Hell is a state of being and not a locality and is something we all bring upon our selves through our sense of separation from the divine and not some ridicules place of suffering that the fundamental Christians describe.

Answer 7

Hell is an internal state of torment. Just ask anyone with depression (or Borderline Personality Disorder) and they will be able to explain to you a little bit about what hell is like.

Answer 8

Hell is not a literal place fiery torment. Ecclesiastes 9: 5 says that the living are conscious that they will die but as for the dead they are conscious of nothing at all. How can god punish someone to a life of torment if they are not even aware that they are being punished?

Answer 9

Dig a 4x6x6 foot hole. Crawl inside, lay down, close your eyes and stop breathing until your heart stops.
Have your friends throw some dirt over the top of you, put the tombstone in place and you will be in hell.

Answer 10

I don't know why anyone worries about going there, when even the Christians can't find it.
That's good to know, because if we have to stop on our way there, to ask directions, we wont be able to get any; and we can just go back home.