Do you believe in heaven and hell?

Question

If yes, what exactly are they, what do they look like, what happens there, how does one get in one of them?

If no, how and why did the mith began, and what happens when you die?

pura aguila: what's wrong in wanting to know other people's interpretations?

pura aguila: I know and I didn't state otherwise, you just asumed. I know about many religions, I studied probably more religions than you even heard about, so it's not like I think christianity is the only one, I'm just interested how PEOPLE (not the religion) see the idea of heaven and hell

Answer 1

No, I don't. I think the myth began as a control mechanism of the priests, to threaten with punishment or bribe with rewards. Remember that a Catholic priest does not only forgive sins OR NOT, but holds the threat of excommunication. This is nominally the Pope's power, but in practice it is the local priest or perhaps bishop who uses the threat.

Then remember that there was no Christianity except Catholicism in Europe and most of the rest of the western world for over 1000 years.

What happens when you die? Listen to "And When I Die" by Blood, Sweat and Tears.

"And when I die
And when I'm dead, dead and gone
They'll be one child born in the world
To carry on."

Answer 2

Let ME Quote A Song And you Guess the Band. The reason
I due this is Simply For This is how Religose Be lifes Are
Conserning this, And Being A Defender of the True Teachings of The Christ. Their are BIG BIG BIG DIFFERENCES Between the TWO! The song starts,
Sing me A song Your A Singer Due Me A Wrong, Your A
Bringer of Evil. The Devil Is Never A Maker The LESS That
You GIVE Your A Taker. So it ON ON ON It's HEAVEN
-N-Hell OH WELL The LOVER of Life's NOT The SINNER
The ENDING s Just The BEGINING. The Closer YOU GET to The MEANING Is The Sooner You Find That YOUR DREAMING.So It's ON ON ON IT GOES ON ON ON IT'S
HEAVEN -N-HELL AAA WELL OH RIGHT IT'S HEAVEN -
N-HELL When It Seems To Be Real It's Illusion, Every Day Their Is Confusion In Life, The Closer You Get To The Meaning The SOONER YOU KNOW THAT YOUR
DREAMING So It Is ON ON ON, The Closer You Get To The
ANSWER You Find Nothing But A DANCER, Dancing
Around With A PRETEND MASTER. That is RELIGON'S
Way 1/2 Steps,Then Your In Hell.
Heaven - N - Hell This Started Way Long A GO! I Think
ONCE Our Mind's UNDERSTOOD THE CONCEPTS OF
GOOD -N- BAD. USED As A Control Over Children,Tribes Men, And So On. You Have To Understand That The Human
Animal Is A Verry Superstitous CREATURE! That Is One
And The Only Reason Their Is Heaven-N-HELL.
If You want Some Good Reading,If You Have The Time.
Read POET MILTONS Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained
Also DANTIE'S INFERNO About The 7 Circles Of HELL.
Those are Exampeles Of And Exellent Reading Of TRUE
CHRISTAN BE LIFES. REMEMBER THE WRITERS
Are Milton Wrote His 1667 and Dantie wrote his?
These guys were Catching The Roman Chatolic Doctrin.
My be life is this Their is Two Paths That You Can Go By,
One The Higher ONE or You can Take the Path Of Less
Resistance. You See THE ANSWER Is Quite OBVIOSE
FREE WILL I WAHT GOD GAVE US FROM HIM TO
SEPERATE US FROM THE REST OF HIS CREATIONS
IN GIVING US THIS BROUGHT ON THE GREAT WAR
IN HEAVEN A Jelous Right Hand" Lucifer" Divided
Heaven BECAUSE Of The CREATORS Shown Favor OVER
HIM ON TO US. When the WAR Ended, LUCIFER Was With
Those Who Foght with HIM Aginst The CREATOR WERE
BOUND TO A SEPERATE PLACE OTHER THAN HEAVEN OR EARTH Void of Any And All Light.The ABYSS Of Darkness AND Frozen Waist Lands From The Nothing That
Was Before The CREATOR BROUGHT FORTH His Light.
Heaven Is The REALM Of THOSE Who BECOME
As The Creator Created Us To BE COME. As He Is.
The Bottom Line is This, We Are Energy What Form Due You Choose to Focus yours as Good Or EVIL?
Depending Upon Your Choice, Is Where You End UP.
When It Gets TO This Level Opposites Due NOT ATTRACT.
You Go To Your Like Energy. After All that . I can say this
Thanks for A GREAT Question I can Rattle on For Days on this But I have To Deposite A Check From ONE OF MY
Wards. Being A GUARDIAN ANGEL Has ITS PERKS.
GOOD NIGHT.

Answer 3

No, I don't. At least, I don't believe in the version presented by the christians. I see no evidence of any sort of supernatural god, so there's no reason to believe in all the trappings that go with him.

If you want to stick with just the real world that we're in now, then there is certainly a heaven and hell. Heaven would be basically a great life - great family, great friends, job, environment, health, etc. Hell would be the opposite - imagine the people who just irk you, who make you upset just to see them. Then imagine a dozen of them around you every day, all day long, and you'd start getting close to my idea of hell.

I think the myth of heaven and hell came about as an incentive to control or at least influence people's behavior, once the idea of religion and an afterlife was conceived.

And I think that when I die, I die. I don't have a "spirit" or "soul" to live on after me. Memories of me may live on, as will things that I've created or written, but those will fade in time. I'm OK with that - it has happened to billions already. After all, do you know any detail about your grandfather's grandfather? Yet do you think that your not knowing diminishes his life at all?

Answer 4

I don't think there IS a heaven because what is heaven anyway? people interpret heaven differently you know? if alcohol is a sin and sex is a sin, so what about eating meat? that's killing animal is that a sin? so if heaven is a state nothing which means once you get into heaven it is nothing but a space, because materials means greedy and that's a sin so there mustn't any of that either, meaning no food, no drink (we don't even need it) no materials of any kind, then what is there left but just the human there wandering around?
is that "heaven"?

Answer 5

Let me answer your question about hell first. Despite rumors to the contrary, hell is still a doctrine in Catholic theology. One who purposely rejects God chooses not to enjoy an eternity of friendship with the Lord. This is the basic notion of hell - cutting oneself off from God.

The existence of hell or separation from God is very real. However, what form hell assumes or in what manner a damned person will suffer, is open to debate. No one has come back to report the temperature in hell. And no human can judge whether another is damned.

Theologians suggest that hell be seen as a state of total rejection of God. Like heaven, it is not a place and is not subject to time.

"Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known No one knows exactly what heaven will be like but Holy Scripture and Church teaching do give us some idea of the great joy which awaits us. What we do know is that

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9; Isaiah 64:4, NIV).
The greatest joy of all will be our ability to see God Himself as He really is.
." (1 Corinthians 13:12, NIV)
We will also be able to enjoy the company of Jesus in His humanity, with Mary His (and our) mother, Saints Peter and Paul, and with all the saints in heaven; including those of our personal families who have been judged worthy.

Answer 6

yes i do believe in that. how could you not know what it is??

hey i dont find nothing wrong with that just that who hasnt heard about heaven or hell. oh and ralfcode christians are not the only ones that believe in a god. there are so many other religions that believe in something greater than them and there own vision of heaven and hell.

Answer 7

Hi, Larissa yes I do believe in heaven and hell this link provides the best explanation of what they will be like and who is there.
http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/heaven.html
http://www.godandscience.org/doctrine/hell.html
Although nobody living really knows for sure this presetation is very well done and is scripturally based.

Answer 8

Yes. To go to hell (which is a place of eternal torment and punishment), you don't have to do anything, in that every unbeliever is going to go there. To go to heaven (which is a place where there is no sin or pain), you must repent of your sin from now until you die and believe (commit your life to) in God (Christ Jesus).

Answer 9

Nope

Answer 10

a mind can make a heaven of hell an a hell of heaven... otherwise, they are not beyond the envelope of the human state of existence.