Since Hell is called the "bottomless pit", does that mean people will fall forever?

Answer 1

Hell is not the bottomless pit.

The bottomless pit is the place where satan and his horde will be cast into during the 1,000 year millenium.

Hell, however, is a place of "outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, where the fire is never quenched, and the worm (the people there) never die."

Answer 2

Falling for ever is a commonly held fear I believe. But you don’t have to worry about going into the bottomless pit. It is what comes out of it that will terrorize the earth.

"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." Rev 9:11

Most people see the bottomless pit as being in the ground somewhere, but I don’t think so. It wouldn't really be bottomless.

I wonder if it is possible that the bottomless pit that is being referred to could be the humongous black hole at the center of our galaxy?

"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." Rev 9:1-3

Answer 3

The Bible says that Satan is “cast . . . into the bottomless pit,” he surely is not simply left where he already is—invisible but confined to the vicinity of the earth. He is removed far from there, “that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled.” Notice that Revelation 20:3 says that, at the end of the thousand years, it is Satan, not the nations, that are loosed from the abyss. When Satan is loosed, people who formerly made up those nations will already be on hand.

Answer 4

Hell is not the bottomless pit.

Pastor Art

Answer 5

Hell is just a similitude of a place in Jeruslaem where they dumped refuse. People did not like that dirty filthy place so they referred to hell and a bottomless pit of refuse hell will just be a state of mind. eternal misery knowing you could have done better.

Answer 6

not really, they say it is a bottomless pit because sin is so bad in the world and more and more people are going to hell ,and they more they are the larger hell gets.

Answer 7

That name is purely an attempted translation of the Greek for the "Abyss". It is not defined as bottomless anywhere.

Answer 8

Oh, I always thought that was a term for those that eat a lot.

Forever in a state of falling? I doubt it. First of all, you're dead so you don't have your body anymore, so gravity (Yes Y/A gravity exists!) is not a problem. Second of all, you're dead so you won't know about it. Problem solved.

Answer 9

Hell is the grave and bottomless means their will always be room for one more person to die.

Answer 10

After a day or so of falling, I think the terror would wear off and you'd start just living a weightless, but otherwise normal, life.