This is a question about the creation account in Genesis, When is Hell created?
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Hell isn't really discussed in Genesis, or given that much information in the Bible in general. Most of what we think of Hell comes from Dante's Inferno.
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This is a good question...it's actually something I've thought about before. It seems snobbish to believe that we are the only living things in the infinite universe, yet the Bible does not describe creation of anything but the Earth and its beings. \n\n"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1 \n\nThis verse states that the heavens were also created by God. Although the heavens are mentioned, the Bible may not go into detail about them for the simple reason that they were unknown at that time. For all we know, God could have created an identical planet to ours that we know nothing about. But in the past and present, it has been impossible to find out about anything much beyond our solar system.\n\nAs for the question of 6,000 years ago...well, it is pretty much a proven fact that time was measured differently when the Bible was written. People were recorded to live into their nine hundreds. So some of the "heavens" could have been created much before the earth and simply recorded as a day.\n\nThis is my theory...I hope I helped.
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If God exists outside of time which I find likely if he created the Universe including time, then heaven and hell would not be bound by the laws of time or space. So a better answer to your question is "where" was purgatory created, the answer: outside of time.\n\nFor those of you who don't know, Purgatory is essentially defined as: "a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace are not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions."\n\nReferences to a place of purgation (place where your purged of your sins) are made as far back as the beginning of the third century (by Clement of Alexandria) and are frequently referenced up to and beyond the bible's canonization (where they decided what books should go into the bible) in 390CE. While no direct references to purgatory were chosen in 390CE, it was acknowledged that the concept was worthy of incorporation into other church publications.\n\nWhen the Reformation came in northern europe, the concept of purgatory was something chosen to be dropped to help distinguish the reformers from the old Church. At the time the idea was being abused in some regions to encourage wealthy church patrons to help "buy" their way out of their sins. This is why many of the Protestant groups today are still contemptuous of the concept, despite it's importance to earlier Christian groups. \n\nThe second act of Dante’s Inferno deals with the concept of purgatory, but if you really wish to learn more you’ll need to read translations of the works of St. Augustine and other early Christian leaders. Dan 12:10; Zech 13:9; Mal 3:2-3; 2 Mac 12:42-45; Matthew 5:26; Lk 12:47-48; Lk 12:58-59; 1 Cor 3:13-15; Apoc 21:27: are some of the biblical passages which were included in 390 that many site provide for the existence of a state of purgatory.\n\nDoes it exist?  I have mixed feelings on the subject, it is a Christian teaching with an impressive historical record that I regard as one of many possibilities.  \n\nRegards,\nArmus
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The man "Adam" was created in the day God created the heavens and the earth which was in the beginning. Mankind was created on the sixth day. Adam or as the bible says in the Hebrew THE MAN never had children until he was expelled from the garden of Eden. So mankind was not procreated by THE ADAM and EVE until they had fallen which was after the seventh day because God said the seventh day was very good. The Adam had access to the tree of life so the time between mankind being created and the fall of the Adam is not recorded in the bible. The Adams children were Cain, Able, and Seth. Cain killed Able and there is no record of Able having children. Cain and Seth went into the world of mankind and had children by mankind. When Cain was expelled from God's presence he went and took a wife of the land of Nod. To make a long story short the world became tainted because they mated with the daughters of men and eventually God cleansed the world with a flood. Noah had a pedigree and you can read the rest.\nThe key is God said to Adam in the day that you eat of the tree dying you shall die. If The Adam had not eaten of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil "The Adam" would never have died. Peter said a day in the Lord was 1,000 years, The Adam lived 930 years after he ate of the tree making him die just shy of 1,000 years fulfilling the prophecy.
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The Devil was not cast in to hell for an eternity.  He was thrown from the heavens and hurled down to the earth.  He is being bound to the earth where he is allowed to continue misleading the peoples of the world for a short period of time. (This period started in 1914)  After Armageddon, he will then be bound into an abyss where whe will not have contact with anyone for 1,000 years.  After which he will be let loose to see if anyone will join him in rebellion. He will succeed. As the bible says those who join him will be as many as the grains of sand in the sea. There will be a final battle and then Jehovah God our Creator will hurl Satan and his followers into the Lake of Fire along with death and hell, which means that they will be destroyed forever.\n\nSee Revelation 12:7-9, 12 and Revelation 20:1-15.
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Yes. Hell is a real place. It is where nonbelievers/non-saved go, when they die. After the Great Judgment of Jesus, satan, his antichrist, and all the people in hell will be thrown into the lake of fire, which is the final, eternal place of torment.
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The word "Hell" NEVER appears in the original Scriptures, neither in the Hebrew nor in the Greek. It is a mistranslation of FOUR different words, made by translators of the Bible who consciously or subconsciously were influenced by their preconceived theological beliefs.\n\nThree words in the New Testament Greek are (incorrectly) translated "Hell."\n\nThey are 1) Hades, 2) Tartarus, and 3) Gehenna\n\nThe word "hades" in the Greek has the same definition as the Hebrew word "Sheol" (the Unseen), and all of the above explanation applies.\n\nThe word "Tartarus" is used ONLY ONCE in the Bible, and refers to the "deepest abyss of Hades." So the definition of "Tartarus" is essentially the same as "hades" or "Sheol."\n\nNotice that the words "Sheol", "Hades", and "Tartarus" HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BURNING! They ALL refer to what happens to a person's "soul" when he dies - - - the person's ability to use the five senses just ceases to exist - - it is in the "Unseen."\n\n----\n\n1Cor.15:22; As in Adam all die, even so in Christ Shall all be made alive. - This proves my point ...  ALL humans will die but the same ALL shall be made alive in christ.\n\nIt doesn't say, in Adam ALL die and that maybe some will be saved in christ ... it says ALL will be made alive. It's the same word in the original scriptures in both parts of the original text ...  ALL !!\n\nFire doesn't mean hell ... if it did, then why did john the baptist talk about being baptised in fire and why does it talk about God's firey laws ?? It's obvious that fire is spoken about in the bible as a purifying agent and in most cases, not literal fire.
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There is considerable evidence -- archaeological, biological, geological, astronomical, cosmological, paleontological -- that shows the biblical account of creation is wrong.\n\nThere is *no* evidence in any scientific discipline that shows the biblical account of creation is correct.\n\nYour point above is just one of many that show how biblical myths came from other cultures -- there are also mythical stories of a garden of "eden", a great flood and a man who built a boat to ride it out, and many others that existed in other cultures (and were written down) in Mesopotamia that pre-date the hebrew stories by centuries or even millenia.  Thinking people, even religious scholars, understand and accept that the biblical stories are just myths and don't ascribe any absolute truth to them, or even attribute them to the hebrews.  Non-thinking people, well, don't think, research, understand -- they just spout dogma.
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God created the devil.
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Absolutely! The bible says that “God created the heavens and the earth” and that he did this in 7 days. As I understand it, the original text really said something more like “7 periods of time”. Even if you take the literal 7 days, just how long is a day for God?\nIt also does not say how. \n\nAs I read the story of creation, I soon realize that when God created man, he created mankind not just a single man. This is illustrated when Cain killed Able and was sent away. He said that the others would recognize him. If you were to read the story literally, then there would be no others. There was Adam, Eve, Cain and Able. Cain was killed.\n\nI have always interpreted “God created man in his image” to mean that there were already people on earth, however God gave man a soul. First man then women. Before that men were more like animals. \n\nThe bible does not spell out much about creation; it just simply states it happened. It does not really define how or over what period of time. Who is to say that God did not create man by evolving primates? Isn’t that really the whole basis of the new “Intelligent Design” theory? The why of course is not spelled out either. Maybe so that there would be the debate…\n\nI’m going to leave my religious believes out of this discussion, they are not important to this discussion. Just suffice it to say, don’t jump to conclusions about my believe system based on the answer above.
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Read the Bible. \n\n Read Genesis 1:1 = In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.\n It explains it all. In the beginning, God MADE EVERYTHING!\nGod Rox!
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"hell" does not exist, the idea for "hell" was made up from christianity and copied from the pagan greek/roman religions of the time.\nBuddhists will not go to hell.\nLook in the torah and the tanakh and you will not find a single reference to "hell"... perhaps in the re-written christian "old testiment" you will but that is changed and meaningless
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Hoo Boy!  If you take Genesis at face value, God made the universe, and laid down certain laws, physical principles, etc..  Man was later.  Man has made laws to regulate behavior, right wrongs, and to protect vested interests.
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common sense.  if you can tell me how or when God was created then I'll reconsider religon.  As for now, scientists can tell me when the universe was created (6.5 Billion years ago) and how it was created (Big Bang).
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Something is really wrong with the heaven and hell teaching.\nAccording to Psalm 115:16, has God provided earth, or heaven for mankind?\nAccording to Psalm 37:29, where are we suppose to spend our eternity?\nReasoning:\nGod said Adam would lose the gift of life if he ate of the forbidden fruit.\nHe ate, he died.\nIF he never ate of it, if he never touched it ....where would he be today?\nOur future is on a cleansed earth.\nThat is what God's original purpose is .....and nothing will change his mind.
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you're not suppose to worry. everything is happening as it should. There's nothinig you can do about. so really, there is no "evil" because it's being done according to a divine destiny. "good" and "evil" are illusions, and heaven and hell in the after life are illusions too. the bible says god is the alpha and omega, the first and the last, so we are born from God and we go back to God, regardless of what others and we may think. FACT. do the resaerch and you will learn that hell was put into the bible by constantine and the church to control the masses. Live every moment as if it's your last.
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No, Eve was not created with Adam.  There is the legend of Lilith, the first woman, she refused to do what Adam told her and she flew off to eventually marry Salathiel (an Angel gone bad) and they had some hellashish creature babies.  OOOOOO now the Christians are gonna jump me, they ought to check out how many of each kind of animal was on the ark, and who really killed Goliath, and were did the Sons of Anak come from if all the giants died in the flood.  Just a few inconsistencies in that great book.  But I believe in what is right, my own version, and if their versions every denomination can be "the way," then so can mine, but only for me!  Thanks man, this was fun.