2007-10-23 18:25:50 · 9 answers · asked by brandee, brandee q 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes.
http://www.spiritlessons.com/Documents/BillWiese_23MinutesInHell_Text.htm
2007-10-23 18:31:46 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes the lake of fire is eternal and the lost live there forever.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9; He will punish those who do know God and do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of His power.
Daniel 12:2; Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake; some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
2007-10-23 18:54:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. Lake of fire is not eternal After suffering from the lake of fire your soul or spirit be burn to ashes and will return to dust which will be eaten by the snake who enticed Eve in committing a sin. That is the punishment of the snake.
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2007-10-23 18:31:15 · answer #3 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864&q=rawlings
2007-10-23 18:34:41 · answer #4 · answered by William F 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Lake of Fire is Symbolic.The Bible gives its own explanation and definition of the symbol by stating: “This means the second death, the lake of fire.”—Re 20:14; 21:8.
The symbolic quality of the lake of fire is further evident from the context of references to it in the book of Revelation. Death is said to be hurled into this lake of fire. Death obviously cannot be literally burned. Moreover, the Devil, an invisible spirit creature, is thrown into the lake. Being spirit, he cannot be hurt by literal fire.
While the foregoing texts make evident the symbolic quality of the lake of fire, it has been used by some persons to support belief in a literal place of fire and torment. Revelation 20:10 has been appealed to, because it speaks of the Devil, the wild beast, and the false prophet as being “tormented day and night forever and ever” in the lake of fire. However, this cannot refer to actual conscious torment. Those thrown into the lake of fire undergo “the second death.” In death there is no consciousness and, hence, no feeling of pain or suffering.—Ec 9:5.
2007-10-23 18:59:08 · answer #5 · answered by conundrum 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The ' lake of fire' is NOT hell.
Hell/Hades is to be destroyed IN IT.
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Ha′des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.
It is not literal but symbolic of total destruction.
Satan himself is to ' go there' or more simply , be destroyed. No longer able to influence mankind.
(Revelation 20:10) And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where both the wild beast and the false prophet [already were]; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
2007-10-23 19:34:19 · answer #6 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What Really Is Hell?
WHATEVER image the word "hell" brings to your mind, hell is generally thought of as a place of punishment for sin. Concerning sin and its effect, the Bible says: "Through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned." (Romans 5:12) The Scriptures also state: "The wages sin pays is death." (Romans 6:23) Since the punishment for sin is death, the fundamental question in determining the true nature of hell is: What happens to us when we die?
Does life of some kind, in some form, continue after death? What is hell, and what kind of people go there? Is there any hope for those in hell? The Bible gives truthful and satisfying answers to these questions.
Life After Death?
Does something inside us, like a soul or a spirit, survive the death of the body? Consider how the first man, Adam, came to have life. The Bible states: "Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life." (Genesis 2:7) Though breathing sustained his life, putting "the breath of life" into his nostrils involved much more than simply blowing air into his lungs. It meant that God put into Adam's lifeless body the spark of life—"the force of life," which is active in all earthly creatures. (Genesis 6:17; 7:22) The Bible refers to this animating force as "spirit." (James 2:26) That spirit can be compared to the electric current that activates a machine or an appliance and enables it to perform its function. Just as the current never takes on the features of the equipment it activates, the life-force does not take on any of the characteristics of the creatures it animates. It has no personality and no thinking ability.
What happens to the spirit when a person dies? Psalm 146:4 says: "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish." When a person dies, his impersonal spirit does not go on existing in another realm as a spirit creature. It "returns to the true God who gave it." (Ecclesiastes 12:7) This means that any hope of future life for that person now rests entirely with God.
The ancient Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato held that a soul inside a person survives death and never dies. What does the Bible teach about the soul? Adam "came to be a living soul," says Genesis 2:7. He did not receive a soul; he was a soul—a whole person. The Scriptures speak of a soul's doing work, craving food, being kidnapped, experiencing sleeplessness, and so forth. (Leviticus 23:30; Deuteronomy 12:20; 24:7; Psalm 119:28) Yes, man himself is a soul. When a person dies, that soul dies.—Ezekiel 18:4.
What, then, is the condition of the dead? When pronouncing sentence upon Adam, Jehovah stated: "Dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) Where was Adam before God formed him from the dust of the ground and gave him life? Why, he simply did not exist! When he died, Adam returned to that state of complete absence of life. The condition of the dead is made clear at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, where we read: "The dead know nothing . . . In the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom." (New International Version) Scripturally, death is a state of nonexistence. The dead have no awareness, no feelings, no thoughts.
Unending Torment or Common Grave?
Since the dead have no conscious existence, hell cannot be a fiery place of torment where the wicked suffer after death. What, then, is hell? Examining what happened to Jesus after he died helps to answer that question. The Bible writer Luke recounts: "Neither was [Jesus] forsaken in Hades [hell, King James Version] nor did his flesh see corruption."* (Acts 2:31) Where was the hell to which even Jesus went? The apostle Paul wrote: "I handed on to you . . . that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, yes, that he has been raised up the third day according to the Scriptures." (1 Corinthians 15:3, 4) So Jesus was in hell, the grave, but he was not abandoned there, for he was raised up, or resurrected.
Job prayed for protection in hell
Consider also the case of the righteous man Job, who suffered much. Wishing to escape his plight, he pleaded: "Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell [Sheol], and hide me till thy wrath pass?"# (Job 14:13, Douay Version) How unreasonable to think that Job desired to go to a fiery-hot place for protection! To Job, "hell" was simply the grave, where his suffering would end. The Bible hell, then, is the common grave of mankind where good people as well as bad ones go.
2007-10-23 20:54:10 · answer #7 · answered by meg's 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No it is not. Try this link.
http://www.tentmaker.org/articles/Hell_is_Leaving_the_Bible_Forever.html
2007-10-23 21:19:52 · answer #8 · answered by out of the grey 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
please read this man's experience:
http://www.near-death.com/storm.html
2007-10-23 18:38:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋