is hell a real place?

Question

IS HELL A REAL PLACE I NEED 2 KNOW

Answer 1

Yes it is. God is loving (usually the only part of God people ever want to talk about now a days), but God is completely just. He is the one who will punish wrong. Hell is very real, and it is forever. Don't take my word for it. Jesus believed in Hell. Read Matthew, first book in the New Testament (Bible). Jesus talks more about Hell than he does heaven. I also know the only way to avoid Hell is to get your sins forgiven by Jesus alone.

Answer 2

NO! hell was created by man, fear is an incredible tool, even before Christ, man used the word hell and made it a place that God sent sinners, and of course people were fearful of God and this place called hell the leaders spoke of, God and hell were created because man could not explain the unexplainable back then, so in order to understand such phenomena they created a God to blame for these phenomenas, this created great fear with the people, and the leaders saw that this would be a good way to control the flock, and from that religion came into play, and the rest is simply history, believe it or not this is how all religion came about, and it was driven by Greed and power and continues to this day.

Answer 3

Yes it is. God promises that he will punish the wicked. If God is good, he must be just and punish lawbreakers. So how do you know if you are a lawbreaker? Take yourself through the ten commandments and you will know whether or not it makes sense that there is a hell.

See http://www.thegoodpersontest.com to find out if you're going to heaven or hell.

God will not grade you on a curve. Put yourself in a courtroom, and you're guilty of breaking ten laws. You tell the judge "I did the best I can!" If the judge lets you go, and "grades you on a curve" he is corrupt. According to the bible, "there is none good, no not one" (Psalm 14, 53; Romans 3). The bible says that anyone who is guilty of breaking one part of the law, is guilty of breaking it all (James 2). Just bring yourself through the ten commandments. If a person has lied, "all liars will have their part in the lake of fire." (Revelation 2).

Jesus makes it very clear that hell is forever (Revelation 14). Jesus describes it where the worm doesn't die, and the fire isn't quenched; weeping and gnashing of teeth; outer darkness. Revelation also states, that death and Hades will be cast into the lake of fire as well (Revelation 20).

Now, pertaining to your question specifically, I want to make something very clear. The bible is crystal clear that there is eternal torment. Where Christians disagree is what Hades, Hell, and Lake of Fire is. Here is my view. I believe that when an unsaved person dies, he/she consciously awaits judgement in Hades, the holding place (Luke 16, 2 Peter 2).

The bible also says that true Christians (not every who professes to be a Christian is a Christian... see Matthew 7) go directly to be with Jesus Christ (Phillippians 1).

Then there is the resurrection of the dead, and the people will be judged at the Great White Throne Judgement. There is some disagreement over whether or not Christians will be at that specific throne, but we DO know that anyone who is not found in the book of Life is cast into the Lake of Fire. The bible calls this the "second death" (Revelation 20). Christians will be judged, but not for their sins. They will be judged for their works. I believe that this is what the bible refers to as hell (lake of fire).

Remember that God is just, and he cannot have sin in his presence. But he is also kind and merciful and loving and will save you if you fling yourself on his mercy by repenting and trusting in Jesus Christ who bore the wrath of God for your sins and my sins. Then he rose from the dead and defeated death! Don't go to God because you're afraid of hell. Go to God because his is so KIND to SAVE you from what you deserve! What we ALL deserve!

-Sarah :)

Answer 4

Yes hell is very real as is Satan. Many people including myself have experienced demons. I had one visit me at night for around 6 months, I was only 17 at the time and it was very frightening as back then (im now 34) I didn't know how to make them go away.

I couldn't see it, I felt his presence and felt that I was being watched. But I knew he was a man and was all black with no face. My sister felt him at night to and then one night he sat on her bed and that was it. He never came back.

People who don't believe in heaven and hell are ignorant and scared of the truth.

It is very real, but no matter what sins you have done, you can still ask god for forgiveness and ask him into your life and start living it for him.

Christianity isn't about rules at all, rules are man made.

Answer 5

: The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she’ohl′ and its Greek equivalent hai′des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge′en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction. However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished (and some believe that this is with torment).

Does the Bible indicate whether the dead experience pain?

Eccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*“Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB; “the grave,” KJ, Kx; “hell,” Dy; “the world of the dead,” TEV.)

Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts* do perish.” (*“Thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “schemes,” JB; “plans,” RS, TEV.)

Answer 6

Hell exist, but it is not somewhere in the midle of earth. Hell is all over the places. There is not a specific place called hell.

Answer 7

Hell is JUST another name for the Grave. Thats all!!
And what is there in any, Grave???
Nothing, absolutely NOTHING!!!
Its a cold, damp place, where slugs, ants and etc, live.
We have a choice. We don't have to die!
God gave us that choice, when He offered up His ONLY Son, Jesus Christ, which, I might add...the GRAVE could not hold, could not keep Christ there, Because Jesus Christ surrendered himself to doing the will of His Father in Heaven, did no sin, and became our redeemer....redeeming mankind back to God again. So this is why we go through Jesus Name, when we pray to God. Through Jesus....God gives us the opportunity to change our ways of selfishness and sinfulness, to being sorry for the wrong way we have been living, and to turn back to Him, to be baptised, and to live a life that honours and glorifies God in Faith!
So, when someone tries to frighten you with saying things about hell....just realise, that all it is, is just the grave. And WHO wants to stay there for ever and ever...as dust and a nothing? God does not work His love in us through fear!
He allows us to make up our own minds, and He never forces others to comply with His will.
However......there is a day of reckoning coming, to all nations, everywhere and to all people.......God wants us to love Him freely......and it has always been His plan, purpose and design, to FILL this earth with HIS GLORY!! His KINGDOM will stand for ever! And those who are faithful, will be rewarded. So do your best to find out what Gods will is for your life, now....so as you too can be a part of it!!!

Answer 8

Sort of. Hell doesn't really exist in the traditional sense that most people believe in. But there is a place where dark/evil is banished.

Answer 9

There are two "real places" called Hell. One is in Michigan, the other in Norway.

Answer 10

Hell was the garbage dump outside Jerusalem. It burned 24/7 and was very hot so bible writers used the word to describe an eternal place of punishment. Gehenna is the word translated hell.
BB