that hell is different for everyone ... but that a state of being that each individual could describe as hell exists ... I am certain ... what I am uncertain about is if it is after death or if it is a teaching tool
A real place where those who reject God and his teachings will spend eternity. We accept Jesus Christ as our personal savior to go to Heaven and avoid hell.
Hell may be anywhere, where cruelty is law, where people and animals are tortured, killed and abused, where our environment is being destroyed and depleted and, of course, in ourselves, in our negative feelings. Paradise and heaven appear, when a true friend is taking your hand and leading you away from war, greed and injustice.
I wouldn't (and couldn't) send anyone to Hell. God doesn't send any people to Hell either. Hell was made for rebellious Angels (aka Demons.) The Fall (original sin by Adam and Eve) was the failure of the obedience test that resulted in the condemnation of people to Hell. However, God loved us so much that He sent His Son to pay our penalty so we can avoid Hell. The only ones who send anyone to Hell are themselves, by rejecting the payment that was made for ALL.
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We are living it here on earth, when our city councils are practicing Agenda 21 Depopulation. How local governments are poisoning the food and water supply. We are being radiated from hydraulic fracking, fluoridated recycled toilet water, depleted uranium and strontium 90 in the air. The next generation's DNA being mutated. Our bodies are bioaccumulating all the toxins aloud in our food and products we are being exposed to. Hell is on earth.
I have several 1. You get to experience the prescence of a very loving God. Then you are separated from it forever. 2. It's your worse nightmare come true over and over again.
To me it's not a concrete place. It's more like the way we choose to live and whether or not we take a good look in the mirror at ourselves, admit our shortcomings and become better human beings because of it. I think most people create their own Hell and then blame everybody and everything else for it. Culpability is certainly lacking in the human race.
Agree with a commenter here who said it has more than one meaning. At the time and place of the first commissioned Christian Bible, the word "hell" referred literally to a community garbage dump, where ppl of the town took their trash to be burned once a week or so. (This became the "lake of fire".) Metaphorically, open to many interpretations... "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell." — Thomas Fuller; and, "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."-- Adolf Hitler and, "He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."~ Thomas Paine; I think at some point we all agree that WAR IS HELL. But, "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."~George Bernard Shaw; AND, "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."~ Oscar Wilde All of these ring true to me. And as for me, hell is that deep hollow, where a person may know the truth of a personal history, deeds and sacrifices of ppl there, but everyone involved or around denies it, so like all other forms of hell, without acknowledgement of hell in the first place, there can be no comfort for us, much less remedy for it, no mercy and no justice. To me, HELL IS THE DENIAL OF THE EXISTENCE OF HELL.
IF it even exists, I'll either end up there or I won't so who cares what it's actually like. If I end up there, all my friends will be there too, so it'll most likely be party time.
My thoughts are that it's real, and nothing in this life is worth selling my soul, like many have, and being stuck there tormented for an eternity. My biggest lost would be being separated from Jesus Christ, whom I get frustrated with but adore. I wouldn't want to live a day without His presence, or in the absence of Love, of which he is the embodiment.
a place - a real place. If you beileve the words of Jesus, then you believe that he said, "I go to prepare a place for you." He didn't say, "I go to prepare a state of mind for you." He meant a literal place. So, good and evil, ying and yang - if there's a good place, then there's a bad place. And if the good place is literal, then the bad place is, also. And the bad place is hell- a place of never ending torment by fire and brimstone and separation from God. I'm just the messenger; don't shoot me. That's what God's word says.
Sister Jean, I was just trying to make the point of "good and evil." If there's a wonderful place for good, then surely there is a terrible place for evil. Yes, when he said, "I go to prepare a place for you," he was, indeed, talking about Heaven. But hell is talked about quite vividly in Revelation. I believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Discrepancies arise from different men writing about the same subject - perhaps it was in their perception nor because they are just making it up. And I believe there is a lot of symbolism used in Revelation simply because John was seeing things that he had no words for - he was trying to describe what he was seeing with objects with which he was familiar. But because he did that makes it no less literal. I went to a church growing up who said "well, that's just symbolism." any time they didn't understand something. That bothered me a lot because I've always been a seeker and a questioner, and I wanted to know why.
Like Heaven Hell is a very real place.But,it is not a good place....anger,hate.....you get the picture.Imagine being with your worst enemy with no place to run,no protection....ever.I would rather spend eternity with my Lord and Savior,Jesus Christ.
Why not? Who really knows? I'll play it safe. It's easier on my conscience.
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At the time and place of the first commissioned Christian Bible, the word "hell" referred literally to a community garbage dump, where ppl of the town took their trash to be burned once a week or so. (This became the "lake of fire".) Metaphorically, open to many interpretations...
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell." — Thomas Fuller; and,
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."-- Adolf Hitler
and, "He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death."~ Thomas Paine;
I think at some point we all agree that WAR IS HELL.
But, "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."~George Bernard Shaw;
AND, "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."~ Oscar Wilde
All of these ring true to me. And as for me, hell is that deep hollow, where a person may know the truth of a personal history, deeds and sacrifices of ppl there, but everyone involved or around denies it, so like all other forms of hell, without acknowledgement of hell in the first place, there can be no comfort for us, much less remedy for it, no mercy and no justice.
To me, HELL IS THE DENIAL OF THE EXISTENCE OF HELL.
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