What is the purpose of God sending us to Hell, FOREVER?
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There is no such thing as Hell. Not as the ascribed place anyway. Hey, its great to have a religion or spirituality to make you feel good and have importance in life, but the Idea of Hell was used to just terrify people into submission in the old ages. Its just carried over through the centuries. People used to believe in Zues and Medusa and all the Greek mythology too! Well, that should give you some indication...\n\nI'm not attempting to change your belief system, because I believe everyone should have thier own, however, I would suggest doing some research and introspective thought regarding Theocracy. Ask around. Talk to people and get other views. It may open your mind and free you of the anxiety of Hell or whatever.
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It is written, judge not lest you be judged. I will never say a person is condemned to hell, for we never know what God is doing in another persons life to bring them to savlation. I will on the other hand try to point out through  scripture that the direction, one is taking will lead them to hell, they always have opportunity to change their life.
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Thoughtful provocation for certain.  I believe that we, as human beings, should be the best we can be, and can feel good about ourselves if we live a life free from hurting others and trying to do good whenever possible.  \n\nTo tell someone they are going to hell is to be intentionally and willfully hurtful, even though they may honestly believe they are trying to get them 'on the right path'.  No one wants to hear that someone believes they are damned, especially if it's because they don't believe in the same things.
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Temporarly forgetting that Gods love for me is unconditional and nothing I can do can ever change that. \n\nBeyond this hell does not exist except in fiction.
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So-called "Christians" do not understand the truth about God's will and purposes. Something as fundamental as the nature of "hell" remains a mystery to them...\n\n"Hell" is simply the common grave of mankind, so EVERYONE who dies goes there to await resurrection on the last day.\n\n(Acts 24:15) there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous\n\n(John 11:24) Martha said to him [Jesus]: “I know he [my brother] will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” \n\n\nHell is NOT someplace/something we need to fear; there is no suffering in the grave.\n\n(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all\n\n(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]\n\n(Ezekiel 18:4) The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.\n\nThe bible says that Hades ("hell") will be done away with:\n(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire\n\n\nFaithful, patient Job requested that he go to "hell":\n(Job 14:13) O that in She´ol you would conceal me\n\nEven Jesus was in "hell" for three days:\n(Acts 2:27) you will not leave my soul in Hades ["hell"]
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Whats the goal of the world? Survival.  \n\nWhy we live? life's grand design  \n\nWhy god created us? god created life, and us in his image to have dominion over it  \n\nWhy we go to heaven or hell?  We create heaven or hell on earth by the direct actions we take in our own lives, this is a observable fact.  \n\nOpinions: One persons heaven is anothers hell.  Faith in the afterlife can come by giving ones self to Jesus.  Some religions believe creating hell on earth will guarantee hell in the after life some the opposite.  Example one religion believes you'll get a bunch of virgins to own if you kill the unbelivers.  To me killing people who don't think like you and then taking advantage of a bunch of virgins are both hell on earth and the afterlife.
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Hell isn't a place, and neither is heaven.  Imagine a "god" so cruel that he would condemn people to hell forever just for not understanding or knowing him or for being misled into the "wrong" religion.\n\nOr think about it from a physical point of view.  By physics principles, the universe is slowly running down.  Hell couldn't burn forever.\n\nReligion is there to comfort people.  It shouldn't be taken literally because it has no foundation in reality.
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Gods' original purpose for mankind is to let them live forever in paradise.He gave them everything that is needed to satisfy their needs and wants.He don't want them to die or to suffer. the first man died not because His creator wants him a shortlived life,no. He died because he disobeyed God. If adam have not sinned he would have been here still. We, just like ann frank inherited the sin of adam and that is the reason why man dies.
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Good question -- the same can be said about this business of torturing people FOREVER in hell just because they could not believe the gospel.  (It is rather hard to believe in invisible things, or in things that one is told and for which there is no proof.)  But if God loves to hate the people he supposedly loves, then that's the way it goes.
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You don't deserve to go to heaven. Since we all sinned, we deserve to go to hell, but by God's AMAZING GRACE and LOVE for us, He sent His only Son to die for our sins and offered us everlasting life because He loved us so much He wanted us to spend eternity with Him. Email me if you have questions or are a fellow believer in Christ at questinchrist@yahoo.com. God bless
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In my opinon, since Satan is the ultimate evil, I'd think that he would appreciate evil deeds and congratulate those who enter Hell on whatever bad thing they did, and they would live quite nicely forever. Maybe that is why somebody would want to live in Hell.
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Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10\n\nI guess the whole hell fire torture thing is a big lie. Not that God would ever do such a thing anway.\n\nOther scriptures such as John 11:11-14 show that death is like a deep sleep. Church leaders teach that a person who dies immediately goes to heaven or hell. This however is not true. In order to live again, a person has to be resurrected (brought back to life). The Bible teaches "ashes to ashes, dust to dust", not "ashes to hell fire, dust to hell fire". - Genesis 3:19\n\nThe Bible states that "the wages sin pays is death" not "the wages sin pays is eternal torment" (Romans 6:23). Death is the absence of life. If a person where to be tortured in hell fire, wouldn't they have to be alive to know what was going on?\n\nSo as Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 correctly states, those who have died are unconscious entirely. They are in a deep sleep, awaiting a resurrection back to life. If the soul was immortal would they need a resurrection? Instead, we rely on God for eternal life.\n\nWhen the Bible speaks of hell, it is actually referring to the place where a person is layed to rest (see Jonah 2:2 where Jonah refers to the belly of the fish as 'hell'). Many Bible translations translate the word hell as 'grave' and 'pit' also.\n\nI hope all this was helpful to you. Here are other scriptures that you may find useful:\nPsalm 146:4\nJob 14:10\nEcclesiastes 3:20
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The only people who will go to hell are those that are not God's children.\n Because God said His children know His voice and will not follow anyone else.\nEveryone else is in unbelief...which is what will send them to hell.\n\nJOHN 3:18\n He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.\n \nIf you want the Truth go here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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To win a lost sinner to Jesus. As christians that is our duty. We need to tell the world what he has done for us.
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Some previous posters were saying that we send ourselves to hell.  That is insane.  If god creates the system and then offers us a choice - either worship him or go to hell, it's not a "loving" choice.  That's similar to an evil person offering the choice:  1. worship me and I'll give you drugs that will make you feel great or 2. I'll torture you.  \n\nWhat loving god would want to torture anything?!?  Why create a hell in the first place?  Why have everlasting torture for a short period of disobedience?  \n\nYou don't have to beat children for hours because they are disrespectful.  You can do time-out and explain why it was wrong.  You hug your children and try to not them suffer when they get sick.  The xian god does the opposite according to the bible.
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Because even if they knew of way to contact Him, God can change His mind based on what you do in the next minute. We do not have scientifically credible and verifiable evidence of the existence of God, Heaven, or Hell; these are a matter of faith, not reason based on firsthand knowledge. Even if it turns out the Bible is right about all of these, we cannot presume to know where God intends to send each of us.
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Eternal torture is perhaps a misleading term.  Eternal separation from God is more accurate.  God is perfect, and we chose (by eating forbidden fruit) to be imperfect.  It was our choice.  In making this decision, we forfeited the ability to atain perfection on our own.  No matter how good natured we are (and most people are), we are not stain free.  Even as adults, we do things that hurt others and take us further from perfection.We cannot return to a perfect God if we are Imperfect.  That is why he himself (as Jesus) sacrificed his own perfect self, so he could GIVE us the perfection we could never attain on our own.  If we refuse to accept this gift, if we refuse to admit that we cannot be perfect, no matter how hard we try, no matter how good we are, then we remain imperfect and cannot return to God.  The common notion of hell was concieved by Middle age monks and radicals and have no foundation in scripture.  By my translation (which I cannot guarantee is correct), Hell does not yet exist, and won't exist until after the End times.