Do you think hell is burning flames or absence of love?Desolation or congregation?
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Hell is neither burning flames or absence of love. Hell is the absence of God and the Hope he brings. You can have the absolute most beautiful and serene setting in the known universe, but without God's Hope, all is lost.
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Absolutly not! It pains me to think of people going to hell. Even some people who have gotten on my last nerve, I don't revel in the final destiny if they are not saved. It pains me to no end.\n\nWe recently had a friend of the family pass away, and I do not know if she was saved or not.
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No I don't believe in hell.  Wicca does not believe in heaven or hell the same way christianity does; for us hell does not exist period.
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Some Christians actually believe that burning in hell is God's idea. They have accepted a perversion of the scriptures without ever wondering if the translations have been mis-translated.I have been a Christian 32 years and this year I actually researched the horrible untruth "Hell." The Holy Spirit will bring us into more and more truth and expose lies and false doctrines.As with lots of Christian stuff we forget parts of the Bible whilst emphasising others. This gospel is good news! I believe all die. All rise from the grave when Jesus returns and everyones life is opened up and bare before God.. Those who have a relationship with God are resurrected and receive new bodies that will never die. And those who have decided to ignore salvation and deliberately continue to do wrong things are forever lost. Unbelievers simply pass from existence. They perish. The dead know nothing. Jesus and God would never punish forever with unquenchable fire and torment. That's a pagan, heathan, wicked perversion. However upon saying that it is very hard to change your beliefs. Especially when people go years believing a doctrine and millions of others disagree and threaten curses etc.upon those who declare hell is a false doctrine. Little by little people will come to know the truth and be set free. Seek the truth and you will find it.
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Look, hell has been demonised by the Christians, and no wonder since the place is full of orgies and heavy metal and such. For me a place full of bible-thumping evangelicals praising god day & night is hell proper, no thanks, give me Lucifer anyday. Everyone gets what they want you see.
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I think the king of hell lives within each of us. We choose whether or not we do good or bad, and that is a continued struggle. People who say that there is an external "Satan" or whatever are doing this because they cannot accept the conflict is within themselves. The king of hell is the shadowy side of all of our souls.\n\nThat felt weird, Poison Ivy, please ask more Jerry Springer questions! ;)
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God IS Love! But as a whole, mankind has rejected God( and His love). \n\nGod DOES NOT send people to hell. He's not willing for ANY to perish. He's simply waiting for you to ask. Is that really so hard!
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no\n\nunless you redefine the word best to mean hell\n\nthen yes
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The very fact that a place called Hell exists, and is described as an eternal lake of fire, pretty much throws any notion of an all-loving god out the window.\nAnd that notion hits every branch of the stupid tree on the way down.\n\nAnd when it reaches the bottom, it falls into a pool.\nAnd that pool is covered in oil.\nAnd the oil suddenly lights on fire.
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Heaven, hell or purgatory.
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The Biblical View of 'Hell'\nIs eternity in an ever-burning inferno the fate of the wicked? Many assume that it is, but is that what the Bible says? To answer that question, we need to understand the four Hebrew and Greek words translated "hell" in most versions of the Bible.\nSheol is the Hebrew word translated "hell" throughout the Old Testament. It refers to "the state and abode of the dead; hence the grave in which the body rests . . ." (William Wilson, Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts, "Hell," p. 215). The Expository Dictionary of Bible Words explains, "Thus there are no references to eternal destiny but simply to the grave as the resting place of the bodies of all people . . ." (Lawrence O. Richards, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1985, p. 336).\nReflecting its true meaning, many more-recent Bible versions translate this word as simply "the grave" or leave it untranslated as Sheol.\nAmong those who knew that they were going to sheol-the grave, not an ever-burning inferno-were such men of faith as Jacob (Genesis 37:35), Job (Job 14:13), David (Psalm 88:3) and Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:10). Clearly, sheol does not refer to a place of eternal torment.\nGreek words translated 'hell'\nThe counterpart of sheol in the Greek language is hades, which also refers to the grave. In the four New Testament verses that quote Old Testament passages containing sheol, hades is used for sheol (Matthew 11:23; Luke 10:15; Acts 2:27, 31). As with sheol, hades is rendered as "the grave" or "death" or left untranslated as Hades in recent Bible versions.\nHades likewise does not refer to a place of fiery torment. Indeed, the apostle Peter refers to Christ Himself as having been in "Hades" (Acts 2:27, 31) or "hell" (King James Version), referring to the time He was entombed before His resurrection. Both words simply refer to the grave.\nA second Greek word, tartaroo, is also translated "hell" in the New Testament. This word is used only once in the Bible (2 Peter 2:4), where it refers to the place where the fallen angels, or demons, are restrained awaiting their judgment. The Expository Dictionary of Bible Words explains that tartaroo means "to confine in Tartaros" and that "Tartaros was the Greek name for the mythological abyss in which rebellious gods were confined" (p. 337). Peter used this reference to contemporary mythology to show that the sinning angels were "delivered . . . into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment." These fallen angels are in a condition or place of restraint awaiting their ultimate judgment for their rebellion against God and destructive influence on humanity.\nTartaros applies only to demons. Nowhere does tartaroo refer to a fiery hell in which people are punished after death.\nIt is only with the remaining word translated "hell"-the Greek word gehenna-that we see some elements people commonly associate with the traditional view of hell. However, this word also has significant differences from the popular concept of hell.\nGehenna "is derived from the Hebr[ew] _expression, ga-Hinnom, Valley of Hinnom . . . Religiously it was a place of idolatrous and human sacrifices . . . In order to put an end to these abominations, Josiah polluted it with human bones and other corruptions (2 Kgs. 23:10, 13, 14)" (Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary New Testament, AMG Publishers, Chattanooga, 1992, p. 360).\nThanks in large part to its evil reputation, this valley bordering Jerusalem came to be used as the city garbage dump. Trash was burned there, along with the bodies of dead animals and criminals. Fires day and night consumed the refuse.\nInferno to destroy the wicked\nGehenna is used 12 times in the Bible, with 11 of those recording Christ's words. When Jesus spoke of gehenna, His li
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Nah.  I tend to question any links between God and any religious organization that relies heavily on violent means to an end.  To me, if the basis for any religion is not the promotion of world peace, harmonious existence, and peace with nature, the religion is not a true reflection of God's will.
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zone?  luminous flame?\n\nwhat's the question?????
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before you become concerned about being saved from it, realize what it truly is.  i am assuming you are a christian based on the fact that you even asked this question.  in the bible, hell is not described as a place of eternal torment for sinners.  hell is a lake of fire, yes.  but the only ones to suffer eternally are those who have already been granted eternal life.  that would be satan and his demons.  the only humans to be granted everlasting life are the ones going to heaven.  those that go to hell simply die.  the lake of fire burns up their sould and they are no more.  see the last chapter of malachi.  think about it.  why would everlasting life be such a big deal if it were also given to those in hell.  why would john 3:16 say- 'shall not PERISH but have everlasting life'.  sinners perish.  if you don't know what perish means, try dictionary.com.
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But the question is what this punishment will consist of. Is it eternal torture? Not likely. Apart from major philosophical and ethical issues, the idea of hell as an eternal torture chamber is a primitive and un-Christian notion, a result of early Christianity's loss of ground to patristic, egotistic pagans. \n\nDoes this punishment consist of utter annihilation of the soul in question? Possibly. This is what the Bible seems to be saying.\n\nDoes this punishment consist of selective destruction of the wicked part of the soul in question, and the rest obtaining forgiveness? Possibly. Again, this can be read out of Scriptures.\n\nBut in any of  the above cases, Satan is acting (like he always has been) as an agent of God's will.\n\nTheses are complicated theological issues that require much study, and I am afraid I have not quite done them justice, so forgive me if in my ignorance I have presented something untrue.
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in the end, destruction is final but the consequences are eternal...it will not take long to destroy people who are evil..it is the evil soul (mind, will emotions)that is burned up. The spirit returns to God.
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I believe that the physical world is full of sin and the spiritual world is basically good.  There's a war going on between the two and I don't know who's winning.  I think there are more bad people in the world.  The road to heaven is narrow and less traveled.....)(