Just curious , What do yo believe about “Hell“?

Question

This is a serious question of just wanting to know what you personally think about ”Hell”.

Is it a physical place, a state of being, or just the knowledge of what you could have had?
Does it even exist?

But most importantly, why do you believe this? Because your preacher, parents, or other told you so? Or is your own personal logic?

There are no right or wrong answers, I just want to know what you believe in.

Answer 1

I believe hell is a real place defined by the absense of God and the seperation from him and his people for eternity. By the same token, heaven is a real place where God is present.

Since we were created to be in a relationship with God, it will be torture to be seperated from him and it will literally tear us apart inside. As we "weep and gnash our teeth" which is symbolic of our own regret and remorse over the life that we've led and our rejection of our creator and his requirements.

I know this from studying the bible and praying and thinking about what I've read. My parents told me something different.

Answer 2

There is a hell. In Luke 16: 19-25 describes it. Here Jesus tells a true story, because he said,(there was). He's not giving a parable because, in a parable he did not use peoples names. He used point are things to which the parable illustrates. Here he is telling a story a true story because if it did not happen then he would be telling a lie. He starts the story off by saying (there was). It is a physical place and God does not want anyone to go there it is a choice that you make. So all this talk about God wont send anyone there is right you send yourself there.

Answer 3

I believe it's a real, geographic place. Just like Heaven.
As for what it is, the Bible teaches that it's a place of "weeping and gnashing of teeth". It's a place of eternal seperation from God. It's hot and lonely and agonizing and miserable and I do NOT want to go there! I believe that Hell is essentially the sentence we should serve for breaking God's law. I also happen to believe that we're not doomed to it, because Jesus paid our "fine" on the cross, and now if we change our ways and submit to God and accept His gift of rescue from Hell...we'll be rescued.

(I hope I haven't offended anyone with this post...it's just what I know.)

As for why I believe it...I have studied numerous religions and delved deep into the study of many different religious and philosophical texts. Eventually I came to the conclusion that the Bible is where it's at. It tells the truth, and it's inspired.
So I believe it because the Bible teaches it...but I don't believe the Bible because some overbearing preacher told me to.

Does that answer you? What inspired your question, anyway?

Answer 4

My belief of Hell;
It's a physical, but spiritual place. If you dug to the centre of the earth, you wont find it. But it's physical, because when you go there, you have a body. In heaven, it's your spirit. In Hell you have a body so you physically feel torture.
Heaps of people visualise Hell as being all firey and stuff.. It's not. (In my belief) I believe the fire part is the Lake of Fire/sulphur.. which isn't Hell.. .. it's just a place in Hell.

Anywho.. According to someone who preached that in his sleep he went to Hell, he didn't die, he just went to Hell.
Hell. Is dark, completely dark place, he couldn't see his hand infront of his face. He also had NO recognition of God, he couldn't remember he was a christian and couldn't remember God. He said he was in a cage. Couldn't see, just knew. And a demon was torturing him. He got thrown around by this demon (he reckoned was about 7 feet I think he said... 7 or 13) and he said he could feel his bones snap, but they'd heal up again straight away, just to be broken again.
He said he then saw the lake of fire. He saw people in it, trying to get out and they couldn't.
Another part he saw was people being crucified.


I just googled the guy I was talking about..

http://www.spiritlessons.com/Documents/BillWiese_23MinutesInHell_Text.htm

Bill Wiese 23 Minutes in Hell.. the above link is just the text of what he said.
If you have a good internet connection here's the video.

http://lit4ever.org/revivalforum/index.php?topic=298.new

There's two links there, one for a slow connection, one for a medium connection.

Somewhere in the bible two, it talks about the worms eating at your flesh, I can't remember if it was Bill or another preacher.. who stated that the worms never died and your skin kept regenerating so you were just being eaten, over and over.


*** Also I remember hearing somewhere that in Hell, you have ALL your memories of your life, so you miss people. And you never forget them. And since you have a physical body you still crave to talk to people but you're alone. You never have contact with anyone else in Hell.

Answer 5

Hell is a word from the 1600s when the KJV was written. Then it meant the same as Sheol in Hebrew and Hades in Greek, the grave. Hell was burial as in "helling potatoes". Dig a hole, insert potatoes, cover same.

The idea of fiery torture was not from the Bible, but from pagan culture and Dante's Inferno.

The Bible describes the condition of the dead in Eccles. 9:5,10 where it says the dead are not able to feel anything, reason, think, or do any work. So what good would it do to try to torture such dead?

In Jeremiah 7:31, people were burning babies in sacrifice to a pagan idol. God says it never entered His mind to consider such a thing. Certainly He would never have built a fiery burning torture for the dead.

Answer 6

ok, in my own answer, I am not so sure. I know, I know, are u a Christian? yes and no. I have had a hard time defining just WHAT I believe in. All my life, parents, pastor, churches, have told me God/ Jesus? Holy spirit exists. But i have had alot of questions that pastors and such, can't answer, so in answer to your question, do I believe in Hell? Yes. Is it a place of fire and brimstone? Yes and no. I believe Satan gives you what you fear most, and that is your Hell, when u go to Hell.

Answer 7

Yes, I believe in Hell. I believe that those people who's souls aren't saved will be going there after Judgement, and a place of punishment. It'll hold eternal suffering, worse than any nightmare anyone can think up. Its the realm of Satan, who is frighteningly real.

I believe it because not only was I taught this, but its something that I feel to be true with every ounce of my heart and soul.

Answer 8

Nope. No hell. No physical place.

The concept of hell is a good one to describe a place of extreme discomfort or punishment.

I believe this because of my education, the discussions I had with my family, and my use of logic.

I love Dante's Inferno, however, and I wish there were a hell for some people (the sullen in particular). I think living in Limbo would be a kick! That's where I'd be if there were a hell.

You can take the Dante's Inferno test here:

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

Lots of fun!

Answer 9

One stated question; and one implied. First, for you stated question. Why do I believe the BIble? There are many reasons but two that speak to me personally are the scientific principles in the writings of Moses, and the fulfilled prophecies. Just to mention two scientific principles in Genesis - Deut. Quarantine to control the spread of communicable diseases. 4 500 years ago nobody knew about the germ theory, and why or how diseases were spread. Yet this very modern principle was applied in the days of Moses. Secondly, there is the matter of circumcision - to be done on the eight day after birth. Based on linear programming (nothing to do with computers but on mathematical concepts), the eight day is the optimal day for circumcision. It appears that the disease-fighting ability of the baby gradually decreases while the blood-clotting ability gradually increases after birth. A graph shows that they intersect on the eight day! And there are many other such highly scientific principles clearly employed in the Bible. How did these primitive people know about these very modern medical and scientific principles if they were not revealed to them? As it relates to fulfilled prophecies, the most famous is that foretold in Daniel about the time of Jesus' first appearing, how long His ministry will be, and what will happen during the middle of that final week of special consideration for the Jews. Sir Isaac Newton wrote more on fulfilled prophecies than on science. As I said, these are not the only two reasons but the ones that appeal to me most effectively. And now for your implied question: which hypothesis fits better the scientific evidence : evolution or creation? And yes, evolution (neo-Darwinian evolution) is just that : a hypothesis. It never was a scientific theory. Sure, Darwin called it a theory (and in the same sentence referred to creation as a theory) but neither is a scientific theory. And they cannot be since neither can be reproduced in the lab even once, much less numerous times. Which one makes better predictions? For example, evolution predicts the existence of millions of transition forms from one species to another while creationism predicts the existence of complete species. What does the Geologic column say? Sudden appearance and stasis. But that supports creationism. And please don't tell me about Archeopteryx (and other such claims). As for Nebraska Man and Piltdown Man, these were outright hoax that fooled many experts for many years. I am sure you have heard of Hopeful Monsters and Punctuated Equilibrium in an attempt to salvage evolution. But this is the only 'scientific' theory I know of that its proponents first have a theory and then look for evidence to support it. As far as I am aware, the Scientific Method works differently. See, I have studied both sides of the equation and have come to an informed decision that it takes more faith to accept evolution than to accept creation. Oh! One last thing : minor variation in the genes of a kind is not evolution. All dogs are still dogs and nobody has ever been able to use selective breeding to change a dog into, say, a dat or a dot (dog-cat). All the experiments over the last 200 years (fruit flies, sugar beets, pigeons, etc) even when directed by human intelligence in one specific direction, show that there is a boundary beyond which the variation cannot proceed. If these were plotted on a graph, it will show rapid changes to begin with but then that gradually approaches a gradient of zero. Furthermore, the further these individuals are from the mean, the more difficult it becomes for them to survive in the natural environment. If returned to the average population, they either die, or interbreed so that in a few generations, their unique characteristics will revert to the mean. The Bible is credible. And there are many scientists with Ph. D.s who accept it as is, including the literal interpretation of the first eleven chapters of Genesis. It is a sad commentary that many theologians reject the literal reading of these chapters, subjecting them instead to the transient hypotheses of Man. Sorry for being so lengthy but the truth is I can write a book of about 800 pages or so on this topic.

Answer 10

The difference between heaven and hell is actually not the location it's the person. God's love is like fire, and those who love Him, and have been purified of their sin, are like mirrors that reflect His love. People who go to hell are people who have no love. They don't experience love because they can't share it, or reflect it. When the fire hits them they cannot reflect it and are thus burned by it. For those in between it's called purgatory. Eventually they are purified just like someone in heaven.

Logically the idea of separation from God doesn't make sense. I didn't make this up, but its what makes the most sense to me.

In any case Hell is not somewhere I want to be.