or do they all get the same punishment satan is getting?
2007-09-10 03:23:02 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only God knows. It is hard to speculate.
2007-09-13 17:46:12 · answer #1 · answered by Avalon99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not convinced hell is a "punishment"...the punishment for sin is death!
...hell, whatever else it really is, is nothing more than the continuation of death. Rotting in a grave, disembodied souls wandering lost in a dark void, an eternal bus station waiting for a bus that never comes? Trying to put hell in a box defined by human/earthly concepts like torture, pain, punishment is pointless...we can barely conceive of the existence of our soul while it is in our bodies...how can we possibly conceive of what it would be like for that soul to exist without the body?
Personally, I think hell is the same for everyone...that death is death and whatever exists after that is the same. The only thing that makes any sense to me is that once we are removed from our physical bodies, we have no resources for perceiving our environment...we'd all be in the same boat.
There is no, "I'll try not to do anything too bad so I'm not sent to live in the bad neighborhood in hell" or "I'll choose hell for the company" or any of the other methods for trying to manage hell. There is no bad neighborhood and there is no company...what could possibly be worse "torture" (or punishment if you will) than being isolated, completely alone with no clue where or what you are...no sight, sound, touch, smell, or taste...no reason or logic or thought as we know it now...how could it be anything but terrifying to live without any of the resources we know how to use...remember, whatever else happens, our body, and with it, our ability to perceive our environment, is DEAD!
Thanks, but no thanks...only Jesus promises us a way to have victory over death. I don't know if hell is a place or a state of being, I don't know if hell is filled with brimstone or if it is ruled like a kingdom by a red guy with horns, all I know is that it is the natural destination for whatever part of us survives the death of our body. Jesus offered each of us an alternative destination...a way to survive in peace and harmony after we die...sounds better than any other alternative I can imagine.
2007-09-10 04:00:48 · answer #2 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I want to fire some grumpy shot at you about how there is no Hell, you just make one of this life if you enslave yourself to superstition, blah, blah, but instead, I have questions for you to ponder:
Whose answer would you consider authoritative on this point? What literature or documents would satisfy the standards you weigh evidence against? How did you arrive at those standards, and do you test them to make sure they're high enough? Working from an assumption that Hell does exist, this seems like a pretty important question you're asking about some hard-to verify information; are you sure you're even qualified to judge the reliability of anyone offering an answer?
2007-09-10 03:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by djnightgaunt 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The word "hell" as used in the Bible means "the grave." I think beyond that point any doctrine re: afterlife punishment becomes unclear. Just to be safe, stay on the Lord's good side.
2007-09-10 03:34:34 · answer #4 · answered by Israel M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is only one punishment in hell. That is for all those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
2007-09-10 03:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by theprez7 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not according to Dante Alighieri and the "Inferno" part of The Divine Comedy:
http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/
But then some people think we are all thrown in a lake of fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oVvkNp4GdA
And some people, like me, think our corpses rot and that is it!!!
2007-09-10 03:30:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yep, you have to sit around and sing praises to satan, do things that satan would approve of, follow satans law, try to convert others to follow satan...
2007-09-10 03:29:07 · answer #7 · answered by M G 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you want to know more about the different punishments in hell, read Dante's Inferno. That's where the modern concept of hell came from.
2007-09-10 03:27:29 · answer #8 · answered by wondermus 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I think there is a menu but be careful, the prices are in Euros.
2007-09-10 04:11:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The consequences of lacking faith in Christ are the lake of fire... and eternal separation from God with the horror of discovering you were wrong.
2007-09-10 03:31:19 · answer #10 · answered by detailgirl 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋