Is there a Hell?

[Thinktank]

wow - so many non-Christians here on this forum.

[Queen K]

What? No angel appearing before Mary? No "heavenly hosts" appearing before shepards? Or where those UFOs?

[forum]

wow - so many non-Christians here on this forum.

lol...9 so far.

If I were a Pastor I'd be hiding my fellow Christians from this forum. LOL.

[Piecemaker]

Sometimes hell can be in one's own mind or a situation one is experiencing...perhaps times when one wishes they could jump into a firey lake and be destroyed. I've survived such hell. NEVER want to go there again!
Some are not able to survive. Is not suicide an attempt to escape a hell that one believes will last forever?

[Born_again]

Thought this was fitting to the topic.....

5 things that are not in the bible

5. Angels
4. the devil being identified as red,horned with pitchfork and goat legs
3. the Holy Grail
2. The antichrist
1. Hell

http://www.cracked.com/article_18757_5- ... bible.html

Matt 25:41: "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels."

John 4:3
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Mark 9:43-48: And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched."

[Queen K]

I'll bet the Spanish Inquistion LOVED Mark.

[OREZ]

I'll bet the Spanish Inquistion LOVED Mark.

They loved bad translations, mythology and Dante's Inferno.

[forum]

I'll bet the Spanish Inquistion LOVED Mark.

They loved bad translations, mythology and Dante's Inferno.

LOL

[Tumult]

Here is something relating to the topic that I found interesting...

Brandy Miller said...
Because God is love, Hell exists. Let me explain:
God is love. Love, however, is not license. Love has very specific requirements in order for it to be genuine love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 describes perfect love: "Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, it is not perverse, it is not puffed up, it is not ambitious and is not self-serving, it is slow to anger, and does not think evil, it does not rejoice in lies or injustice, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Now, because God is Love and Love does not insist on having its own way, God allows us to choose to reject love. If we, by our choices, reject love our ability to experience love and to show love grows less and less and eventually fades altogether. Every action we take which hurts someone else reduces our ability to empathize and thus to feel love. When we have a reduced ability to feel love, we also have a reduced ability to express love. Love still exists, it is still available to us, but we are unable to feel it or to take advantage of it.

Now, when someone has lived their entire life rejecting love and becomes so blind to it and so deaf to it and so unable to express love to others, it is impossible for them to find love after death. That's hell. God is still there with them, but they are unable to see, hear, or respond to him. Human beings need and crave love, but these people have become blind to it and deaf to it and so they crave it but are unable to find it, they have become twisted inside and would only hurt other people if given the opportunity. In order to protect those who have learned how to love, God allows those who have chosen not to love to be set apart from the rest.

[fluffy]

In a metaphorical sense, the inability to feel love is hell in the here and now, just as a life free of fear and anger and all the bad stuff can be viewed as heaven.

[Born_again]

I would say that rationalised fear is a good thing, and one of the important factors in human survival. No, fear does not equate to hell in my books. Fear has also played an enormous part in the way I've entertained myself throughout my life. You just gotta love fear!

[fluffy]

The is a school of thought that says all negative emotions have their roots in fear.

[Born_again]

I'm not one for guruistic schools of thought much. Emotions are emotions, and they will always reflect the way in which the bearer rationalises and reacts to the situation/circumstances at hand. Some people can turn a 'negative' situation into a positive quite efficiently, and thus see the positive aspects, whereas other people allow negativity to rule themselves as if it were the default outlook. Horses for courses.

[fluffy]

Some people can turn a 'negative' situation into a positive quite efficiently, and thus see the positive aspects....

Yes, in psychological circles this is known as cognitive re-framing, in colloquial terms it's "getting your head around it". Either way it involves taking the fearfulness out of any given situation thus dispelling the negative aspects.

[razzledazzle]

Yes there is, and that place is called Earth, wars, famine, greed, and so on.