What would be your idea of Hell ?

Answer 1

Somewhere dark but just light enough to see where you are. It would have caves and people living in places like underground shelters. There would be no sunshine the ground would be like a shingles on a beach,
and grey slabs and you would know you were in hell.

Answer 2

Hell is eternal (FOR EVER)damnation, and separation from God. Hell is a place of wailing and gnashing of teeth, (Mat13:42, 13:50) a place of eternal torment. Destruction of both body and soul, (Mat 10:28). A place of intense fire (Mat25:41)(Mark9:43-48). (John5:29). Hell is a place where those that do not believe in Jesus Christ as their LORD AND SAVIOR will be sent.

Answer 3

Dives was a rich man. Lazarus was a poor man who begged at his gate. When they died, Lazarus was taken up into the bosom of Abraham and Dives went to Hell.
After a few thousand years, Lazarus was feeling bored so he looked across the great divide and saw Dives and his friends partying in Hell. "Brother Dives", he called out, "can I come to your party". "No" said Dives, "for there is a great divide between us that no-one can cross" "Then can you at least throw me up a bottle of beer?"

Up came a bottle of Guinness. Lazarus knocked the cap off on his harp but found that the glass continued right over the top of the bottle.

"Brother Dives" he called out "I can't drink this: there's no hole in the bottle".
"I know" said Dives "it's the same with the women. It's Hell down here.

Answer 4

What if heaven and hell are exactly the same except for one difference? What ever you picture in your head heaven to be, imagine hell to be the same except for one difference. Everything you can do in heaven you can do in hell except for one difference. The difference is love or dominion. If you choose love you are in heaven, you are sharing love/joy/fellowship, absolute bliss in all you do.

If you choose dominion you are in hell, everyone will be dominion bent, acting without regard to anything but personal pleasure, personal gain, exercising power over others. Everyman for himself in all that is done. Everything else is the same.

Now which path do/will you choose? LOVE or DOMINION

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P.S. Doesn't hell feel a lot like earth?

Answer 5

Eternal separation from God the Father.

Eternal condemnation in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone.

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Answer 6

Hell is eternal seperation from God.
Heaven is eternally being in the presence of God.
All colorful language aside, that is ultimately the difference between Heaven and Hell.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, ‘eternal fire.’ The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs" (CCC 1035).

Answer 7

Assuming that Hell is what the Bible calls Gehenna, I can't have an idea of it except that it is unimaginably painful.

Repent while the going is good.!

Answer 8

Don't ask me... ask the people who have seen it.

St. Maria Faustina Kowalska


"I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the Abysses of Hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence...the devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God, What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: That most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell." (Diary 741)

"Today, I was led by an angel to the Chasms of Hell. It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw:
The First Torture that constitutes hell is:
The loss of God.
The Second is:
Perpetual remorse of conscience.
The Third is
That one's condition will never change.
The Fourth is:
The fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it. A terrible suffering since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God's anger.
The Fifth Torture is:
Continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell, and despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own.
The Sixth Torture is:
The constant company of Satan.
The Seventh Torture is:
Horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies.
These are the Tortures suffered by all the damned together, but that is not the end of the sufferings.

Indescribable Sufferings
There are special Tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings related to the manner in which it has sinned.

I would have died
There are caverns and pits of torture where one form of agony differs from another. I would have died at the very sight of these tortures if the omnipotence of God had not supported me.

No One Can Say There is No Hell
Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout all eternity, in those senses which he made use of to sin. I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like...how terribly souls suffer there! Consequently, I pray even more fervently for the conversion of sinners. I incessantly plead God's mercy upon them. O My Jesus, I would rather be in agony until the end of the world, amidst the greatest sufferings, than offend you by the least sin." (Diary 741)

Sister Lucy of Fatima Describes the Vision of Hell


At Fatima, the Blessed Virgin Mary told the three child seers that many souls go to hell because they have no one to pray or make sacrifices for them. In her Memoirs, Sister Lucy describes the vision of hell that Our Lady showed the children at Fatima:
"She opened Her hands once more, as She had done the two previous months. The rays [of light] appeared to penetrate the earth, and we saw, as it were, a vast sea of fire. Plunged in this fire, we saw the demons and the souls [of the damned]. The latter were like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, having human forms. They were floating about in that conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames which issued from within themselves, together with great clouds of smoke. Now they fell back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fright (it must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons were distinguished [from the souls of the damned] by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. That vision only lasted for a moment, thanks to our good Heavenly Mother, Who at the first apparition had promised to take us to Heaven. Without that, I think that we would have died of terror and fear."

Answer 9

To spend a forced long time in the company of fundamentalists christians, moslems, even jews, any fundamentalists.

What a horrible contemplation. Hell? You say?

I guess so.

Answer 10

As the Bible describes it, a place without the presence of God.
Or a world without the presence of chocolate.