what is hell?  where is it?
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HELL IN KJV\nOne Hebrew word “sheol” is rendered hell. Definition; hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranian retreat), grave, hell, pit. Three Greek words are rendered hell; geenna, hades, and tartaroo. Definition of geenna; a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment: - hell. Definition of hades; properly unseen, that is, “Hades” or the place (state) of departed souls: - grave, hell. Definition of tartaroo; (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment: - cast down to hell. Tartaroo is used only one place II Pet.2:4.\nChrist teaching the Pharisees in Luke 16:19-31 shows us a separation from God is truly what hell is. The “water” is symbolic for God’s Spirit and love. The word “tormented” means distressed in the Greek, not torture. The “fire” is symbolic for the shame and desire not to be separated from God. \nSo all who die the first death of the flesh return to God Ecc.12:6-7, but on which side of the gulf do they end up?\nHell is not eternal but is done away with in Rev.20:14-15, called both the second death and lake of fire. This second death is non-existence, for death and hell and those not written in the book of life. This second death or lake of fire is like fat drippings that fall into the fire. Just a poof of smoke into non-existence.\nPsa.37:20  But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.\nIn my mind what’s worse yet is no memory of you, no tears will be shed for you like you never existed.\nRev.21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. \nSo hell is a separation from God and is not eternal torture or burning. Eventually hell will be done away with or passed away and also some souls. Like fat drippings in the fire, a poof of smoke into non-existence, the second death.
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No, because there is no hell. You make a pretty good point. If someone were on an isolated island he wouldn't even have the slightest concept of what god is. Know why? Because it's a man made organized religion. The bible is man made too.
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The eighth circle of hell?
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Most physics say that heaven is 3 feet above earth and hell is on earth
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This version of Hell is non-existent.  Hell is an eternity in the absence of God.  Fire and brimstone is a man made myth.
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The word hell is found in different Bible translations as "the grave", or "world of the dead". It is known in the Hebrew language as sheohl and the Greek equivalent is haides, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of mankind. Geenna is also used as a reference to "the pit", or "the grave", and "fiery Gehenna" is speaking of The Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) which was outside the walls of Jerusalem. It was used as an incinerator for the filth of the city, including the bodies of dead animals, and of executed criminals who were considered unfit for burial. It was kept burning with the addition of sulpher...hence the fire and brimstone and sulpher you hear about.  \n As for the earth hanging upon nothing at all, that is at Job 26:7 "He is stretching out the north over the empty place., hanging the earth upon nothing"  and that the earth is a circle or sphere, that's at Isaiah 40:22 " There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers..."  The Bible was scientifically correct long before it's time!!
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This isn't hell.  Hell has no beautiful waves or green trees,  its just a place where people weave back the pain they caused here so the universe can be healed.  Very few people go there.  Until recently anyway.
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The English word "hell" is not a biblically precise term.\n\nSome bibles use "hell" to translate the Hebrew word "Sheol", the Greek word "Hades", and the Greek word "Gehenna"; other bibles consider these three terms to be proper nouns and so leave the capitalized original-language names untranslated in their English translations. \n\nBoth "Sheol" and "Hades" clearly refer to the common grave of mankind, the condition of being dead from which resurrection is possible. "Gehenna" refers to death without the possibility of resurrection; "Gehenna" is synonymous with the bible expressions "lake of fire" and "the second death".\n\nNone of these terms, and nothing in the bible, teaches that "hell" is a fiery place of torment.\n\n(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]\n\n(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20020601/article_02.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_07.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20010901/article_02.htm
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Hell\n\nDefinition: 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).\n\nDoes the Bible indicate whether the dead experience pain?\n\nEccl. 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.)\n\nPs. 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.)\n\nDoes the Bible indicate that the soul survives the death of the body?\n\nEzek. 18:4: “The soul* that is sinning—it itself will die.” (*“Soul,” KJ, Dy, RS, NE, Kx; “the man,” JB; “the person,” TEV.)\n\n“The concept of ‘soul,’ meaning a purely spiritual, immaterial reality, separate from the ‘body,’ . . . does not exist in the Bible.”—La Parole de Dieu (Paris, 1960), Georges Auzou, professor of Sacred Scripture, Rouen Seminary, France, p. 128.\n\n“Although the Hebrew word nefesh [in the Hebrew Scriptures] is frequently translated as ‘soul,’ it would be inaccurate to read into it a Greek meaning. Nefesh . . . is never conceived of as operating separately from the body. In the New Testament the Greek word psyche is often translated as ‘soul’ but again should not be readily understood to have the meaning the word had for the Greek philosophers. It usually means ‘life,’ or ‘vitality,’ or, at times, ‘the self.’”—The Encyclopedia Americana (1977), Vol. 25, p. 236.\n\nWhat sort of people go to the Bible hell?\n\nDoes the Bible say that the wicked go to hell?\n\nPs. 9:17, KJ: “The wicked shall be turned into hell,* and all the nations that forget God.” (*“Hell,” 9:18 in Dy; “death,” TEV; “the place of death,” Kx; “Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB, NW.)\n\nDoes the Bible also say that upright people go to hell?\n\nJob 14:13, Dy: “[Job prayed:] Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell,* and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?” (God himself said that Job was “a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad.”—Job 1:8.) (*“The grave,” KJ; “the world of the dead,” TEV; “Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB, NW.)\n\nActs 2:25-27, KJ: “David speaketh concerning him [Jesus Christ], . . . Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,* neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” (The fact that God did not “leave” Jesus in hell implies that Jesus was in hell, or Hades, at least for a time, does it not?) (*“Hell,” Dy; “death,” NE; “the place of death,” Kx; “the world of the dead,” TEV; “Hades,” AS, RS, JB, NW.)\n\nDoes anyone ever get out of the Bible hell?\n\nRev. 20:13, 14, KJ: “The sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell* delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their
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u want me to describe hell and heaven ? can u clarify the question by adding deatalies. i will come back to this question
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This quote is used because Hell is considered the extreme!  There is not supposed to be anything worse than hell.  Therefore when something is compared to hell it signifies that it is the best or worst and ultimately there is none greater.
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by definition, heaven, means eternal life. hell, means eternal death.
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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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"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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I don't know where it is, but apparently it's exothermic.\n\nQuoted from some random site on the web:\n\nThe following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.\n\nBonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat), or endothermic (absorbs heat)?\n\nMost of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.\n\nOne student, however, wrote the following:\n\nFirst, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave.\nTherefore, no souls are leaving.\n\nAs for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.\n\nThis gives two possibilities:\n1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.\n2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.\n\nSo which is it?\n\nIf we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.\n\nThe corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is, therefore, extinct... leaving only Heaven --- thereby proving the existence of a divine being --- which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting, "Oh my God!"\n\nTHIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A".
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Heaven is interdimensional, so it can be right next to you, but your physical body will not allow you access until after you shed it. There is a Hell too, and it is called the "outer darkness", how "out" that is, is another question.
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It's in Michigan about an hour from Detroit.  It's called Hell, Michigan.