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Jenni18

Define what Hell is?

This is a view point question. I will not debate. I want to know exactly and thoroughly what you believe it is. I have been told it is literal fire, I have been told only really bad people go there, I have been told that so-so people go there, that only exclusive religions go there, that it is not fire but absence of God, that the pain is not physical but remorse for the evil you have commited. I will not add comments. I only want people to state their opinions so that I can understand other people.

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complete and absolute and permanent separation from GOD.

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Exactly...
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Wow. Thanks.
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Couldnt be more wrong.
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Gators4eva5

a place with no girls

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What if they nag? Then it would be Hell, huh?
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haaahahaha!! (you like my squidward laugh huh!?) oh yea its so sexy!
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so how's heaven 5th gators?
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Fenton Harcor Mudd from the original star trek. His punishment was to spend eternity with dozens of clones of his nagging wife
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It's supposed be burning in hell to be forever saitin's slaves.. I'd be standing next to him haha I already have my bed made down there

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A nonexistent afterlife in Christian mythology.

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So sure???? Don't worry, I'm not one of those Christians who will try to "convince" you. I'm clear about my eternity. If it doesn't bother you, I guess it doesn't bother me if you go to hell . You know.............that mythical place?
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He'll is Were bad people go .. Right after they kill someone :x .. And do other stuff that put them in jail .. Ect

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Not bad people. People who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of GOD.
But......................... The only way to
The FATHER (in heaven) is through the SON.
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A land of suffering and to make it worse it's eternal ya go there if you not good when ya die, now on my Personal opinion it's being on a family argument going on next to me and annoying me while it rains and i live that at least once a week. ;(

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I'm sorry that your family argues. Mine did too. And esp. if it is raining outside. Where do you go to get away from it then.
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to my room pretending i don't exist, even my dogs get in my room while my family argues.
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That's too bad. You shouldn't have to put up with that.
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well, i try to avoid that but such situation always comes after me, thanks to God i'm never involved in those events and i can't run away when it rains cause one drop of rain water is enough for me to catch a cold.
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I personally don't believe there is a hell. I do, however, use the term to personally describe certain situations or current state of mind. Example...Driving in rush hour traffic is hell.

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a place were I don't belong!!!

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An eternal place of torment and suffering. Absent of all good or happiness. It has utter darkness and burning. Both mental and physical agony. Hell has differing levels of punishment but non the less, all are eternal.

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Were you go if God is absent in your life, if you don't ask for forgiveness and turn from your old ways, then devote your life to God.
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Thank you for adding the reason for your stay there pattipooh!
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Not debating. This is a rhetorical question. If there are different levels of punishment, what could be added to make it worse? That seems to me the peak level.
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IDK what levels you could introduce. Maybe duration of torture, periods of relief, IDK. All I know is I don't want to go there!
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Hell is where you go in the afterlife if you haven't been saved by God's grace. Also, if you have committed sins and haven't asked for God's forgiveness and aren't saved you go to Hell. And if you blaspheme Jesus Christ and holy spirit you will not be forgiven, therefore go to Hell. And Hell is a lake of brimming fire, the pain is everlasting agony.

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Hell is what most of us in this society are going through right now: ignorance, apathy, incivility, narcissism, greed, violence, and other addictive behaviors, all of which is brought about by a refusal to acknowledge a Higher Power (someone, something) greater than ourselves) and a refusal to turn our will and our lives over to that Higher Power). It is a spiritual issue, not a religious one. We are asleep spiritually, in a state of denial of this basic fact: we are subordinate to the Will of the Universe, not wiser than It. And thus it will ever be until we trust in and subordinate ourselves to this Higher Power, get clean, and help
others. Then we will have Heaven.

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So right. Naturally it has yo be a spiritual thing. We were all created by a SPIRIT!!
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I like Dante's envisioning of Hell:

First Circle - Limbo
Second Circle - Lust
Third Circle - Gluttony
Fourth Circle - Greed
Fifth Circle - Anger
Sixth Circle - Heresy
Seventh Circle - Violence
Eighth Circle - Fraud
Ninth Circle - Treachery

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umm I cant Ive been here on earth..With you..O_o

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The punishment of the wicked dead in hell is described throughout Scripture as "eternal fire" (Matthew 25:41), "unquenchable fire" (Matthew 3:12), "shame and everlasting contempt" (Daniel 12:2), a place where "the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:44-49), a place of "torment" and "fire" (Luke 16:23-24), "everlasting destruction" (2 Thessalonians 1:9), a place where "the smoke of torment rises forever and ever" (Revelation 14:10-11), and a "lake of burning sulfur" where the wicked are "tormented day and night forever and ever" (Revelation 20:10).

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Many people and religions believe that if we do not follow God's ways that we will be sent to hell, however, the Bible does not mention such a thing.

In Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 we read: "For the living are conscious that they will dies; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten." "All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She'ol, the place to which you are going."

What these two verses are saying is that when we die we seize to exist and we are not aware of what is going on in our surroundings, like when we are in deep sleep. By the way, She'ol means the common grave of mankind in Hebrew. Some versions of the Bible translate this word as "hell", for instance, the King James Version in Acts 2:3 and the Douay Version in Job 14:13.

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Since the dead are not conscious of anything, hell cannot be a fiery place of torment where the wicked suffer after death. In the King James Version of the Bible, in Acts 2:31 says that Jesus went to hell after dying. And in 1 Corinthians 15:3, 4 we read: "I handed on to you...that Crist died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, yes, that he has been raised up the third day according to the Scriptures." So Jesus went to "hell", meaning the grave, not to be tormented for his sins, simply because he died and was awaiting to be resurrected.

Although the Bible does mention a "fiery Gehenna" (Matthew 5:22), it refered to the valley of Hinnom, outside the walls of Jerusalem, which was used as a garbage dump to burn garbage and bodies of criminals and animals that were not worthy of burial. Symbolically, the Gehenna, a "lake of fire", represents an eternal destruction, not like the She'ol or the "hell" that Jesus went to, the Gehenna is a "place" that one goes but cannot receive the benefit of resurrection. I hope this helps. If you have any doubts, don't hesitate to "ask"!
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A very very very ultimately bad place. All horrific, no good.

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There are two different symbolic hells- Sheol and Gehenna.

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