What do u believe Hell to be like?

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Someone told me something rather interesting. Hell is not just..burning fire filled with sinful people. It is also cold, very cold. Fire is not just the only tortuous element.
Anyways, i believe Hell to be a delusion, a mind game of sorts. Hell is insanity. Literally...
It is just an opinion among others not a confirmed belief though.

What are your thoughts?
 

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Someone told me something rather interesting. Hell is not just..burning fire filled with sinful people. It is also cold, very cold. Fire is not just the only tortuous element.
Anyways, i believe Hell to be a delusion, a mind game of sorts. Hell is insanity. Literally...
It is just an opinion among others not a confirmed belief though.

What are your thoughts?
I have a theory that hell might be here on earth in another dimension, otherwise i can´t understand all the souls or spirits wandering around here not walking towards the light when they die, but stays here... I don´t believe in fire and ice or torture like that in hell, i just believe they stay here, never entering Gods kingdom, that´s all...
 
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Someone told me something rather interesting. Hell is not just..burning fire filled with sinful people. It is also cold, very cold. Fire is not just the only tortuous element.Anyways, i believe Hell to be a delusion, a mind game of sorts. Hell is insanity. Literally...It is just an opinion among others not a confirmed belief though.
What are your thoughts?

Hell is just you and nothing else. You don't trust in God, so you don't get
to be with Him. You are alone and tormented by your deeds, in particular, things
you have spoken with your tongue burn in your mind like a fire and haunt you.
You are in agony over your wasted life. The only punishment that exists there
is you thinking over the life you have lived and the pain you have caused others.
You don't get to watch TV or eat cheeseburgers to help forget your past thoughts
or actions like we get to do here.

23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’

25“But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

27“He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

29“Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’

30“ ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

31“He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’ ”
 
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Someone told me something rather interesting. Hell is not just..burning fire filled with sinful people. It is also cold, very cold. Fire is not just the only tortuous element.
Anyways, i believe Hell to be a delusion, a mind game of sorts. Hell is insanity. Literally...
It is just an opinion among others not a confirmed belief though.

What are your thoughts?


The Book of Enoch gives a much more detailed description of the place. It is surprisingly very similar to the very recent image and description of the massive black holed at the center of our galaxy.

Temperature at the vicinity of that black hole is even much hotter than the Sun's surface that it radiates X-Rays!

If the "unsaved" is being thrown into a black hole.....

Our universe itself is inside a very large black hole so believe it or not so what gives....We might be in hell ourselves!
 
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The word "hell" is an old English word referring to covering over with dirt as in "helling potatoes" as a way of storing them for winter. Hell in Scripture, as a translation of the Hebrew word "sheol" or the Greek word "hades", is a hole in the ground that the dead are put into and covered over with dirt (the grave).
Another word translated "hell" is the Greek word "gehenna". This refers to a place of fire where the wicked will burn until they are totally consumed. No human being will burn forever. If they did, then they would have eternal life. Messiah Yeshua said no one will receive eternal life except those who have received him as Savior.
 
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Someone told me something rather interesting. Hell is not just..burning fire filled with sinful people. It is also cold, very cold. Fire is not just the only tortuous element.
Anyways, i believe Hell to be a delusion, a mind game of sorts. Hell is insanity. Literally...
It is just an opinion among others not a confirmed belief though.

What are your thoughts?


Hopefully non-existent. I wouldn't be opposed to punishment for really REALLY bad people for 1000, even 10,000 years. But eternity? That would be too much.

Especially because apparently some are thrown into hell for something as not evil as not believing. Eternal torture for that? That's not love.

Extended punishment on those who deserve it is a form of justice I can get behind. Eternal fiery burning torture is evil. I can't call a being loving who creates something like that.
 
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Hopefully non-existent. I wouldn't be opposed to punishment for really REALLY bad people for 1000, even 10,000 years. But eternity? That would be too much.

Especially because apparently some are thrown into hell for something as not evil as not believing. Eternal torture for that? That's not love.

Extended punishment on those who deserve it is a form of justice I can get behind. Eternal fiery burning torture is evil. I can't call a being loving who creates something like that.

You can rest assure that God's justice doesn't work on such principles....

MAN'S CORRUPT principle of justice works more like that since even petty criminals thrown into jail with hard criminals and suffer much at the hands of these monsters. Some even killed thus, a punishment for petty crime turning into a death sentence!

It's a corrupt justice system invented by evil people.
 
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Someone told me something rather interesting. Hell is not just..burning fire filled with sinful people. It is also cold, very cold. Fire is not just the only tortuous element.
Anyways, i believe Hell to be a delusion, a mind game of sorts. Hell is insanity. Literally...
It is just an opinion among others not a confirmed belief though.

What are your thoughts?

Numerous testimonies have been published in recent decades about people who have actually been taken there in spirit, and then brought back to testify of what they have been allowed by God to see and hear.

The following link is one of them. You can scroll down to where it provides a written transcript, if you like. If this isn't, however, what you wanted to hear, I can assure you that there are several other authoritative accounts, and they all corroborate with one another:

Mary K Baxter A Divine Revelation of Hell Heaven
 
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You can rest assure that God's justice doesn't work on such principles....

MAN'S CORRUPT principle of justice works more like that since even petty criminals thrown into jail with hard criminals and suffer much at the hands of these monsters. Some even killed thus, a punishment for petty crime turning into a death sentence!

It's a corrupt justice system invented by evil people.

I agree. God told us that His ways and thoughts are above ours. I note that His justice was to send His Own Son, Jesus the Christ, to die for our benefit. Having previously given the lesson of an eye for an eye through Moses, Jesus gave us a new lesson: love, grace and forgiveness. Surely God has a better plan for us than to send most of us to the Incinerator! My own research into the matter is that "hell" is a word originally meaning "hidden" and "covered," a good equivalent to "sheol" and "hades." However, like Hades, Hell has acquired a lot of theological baggage, little of it Biblical. My big find was in Norse mythology, where (if you did not rate Valhalla) you were supposed to go to Helheim, the realm of the goddess Hel. So...Hel is pagan, but Hell is Christian. It should give anyone pause.
 
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Numerous testimonies have been published in recent decades about people who have actually been taken there in spirit, and then brought back to testify of what they have been allowed by God to see and hear.

The following link is one of them. You can scroll down to where it provides a written transcript, if you like. If this isn't, however, what you wanted to hear, I can assure you that there are several other authoritative accounts, and they all corroborate with one another:

Mary K Baxter A Divine Revelation of Hell Heaven

Baxter's accounts are no more to be believed than the FICTIONS of Dante and Milton, or the fear-mongering of Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon, with its ONE Biblical reference.
 
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Baxter's accounts are no more to be believed than the FICTIONS of Dante and Milton, or the fear-mongering of Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon, with its ONE Biblical reference.

Well that was quick, lol. Yes, I was expecting this response.

But to that I would say this: Do you believe in a God who leaves His people to forever theorize about what Hell might be like, or do you believe in One who would actually tell them?
 
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Well that was quick, lol. Yes, I was expecting this response.

But to that I would say this: Do you believe in a God who leaves His people to forever theorize about what Hell might be like, or do you believe in One who would actually tell them?

As usual - two years of research greeted with an LOL...

As Jesus told His disciples, He had more to tell them, but they could not bear it at that time. Doubt will, in time, be replaced by certainty, and light is already beginning to shine for those who have plumbed the depths of the Word.
 
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You can rest assure that God's justice doesn't work on such principles....

MAN'S CORRUPT principle of justice works more like that since even petty criminals thrown into jail with hard criminals and suffer much at the hands of these monsters. Some even killed thus, a punishment for petty crime turning into a death sentence!

It's a corrupt justice system invented by evil people.

I agree. God told us that His ways and thoughts are above ours. I note that His justice was to send His Own Son, Jesus the Christ, to die for our benefit. Having previously given the lesson of an eye for an eye through Moses, Jesus gave us a new lesson: love, grace and forgiveness. Surely God has a better plan for us than to send most of us to the Incinerator! My own research into the matter is that "hell" is a word originally meaning "hidden" and "covered," a good equivalent to "sheol" and "hades." However, like Hades, Hell has acquired a lot of theological baggage, little of it Biblical. My big find was in Norse mythology, where (if you did not rate Valhalla) you were supposed to go to Helheim, the realm of the goddess Hel. So...Hel is pagan, but Hell is Christian. It should give anyone pause.

Then why does it seem that man's principle of justice is more loving and just than God's, and God's is more along the lines of a Caananite war deity (which according to history the view of him started out as)?

Hell is a scare tactic concept. Hell in the sense of eternal burning torture is the opposite of love and is nothing short of evil sadism.
 
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As usual - two years of research greeted with an LOL...

As Jesus told His disciples, He had more to tell them, but they could not bear it at that time. Doubt will, in time, be replaced by certainty, and light is already beginning to shine for those who have plumbed the depths of the Word.

You're assuming I'm not a "plumber" then, correct? :)

Btw, sorry if my LoL offended you. I know it can come off as flippant from some, but in my case it's really just an effort to keep things light, i.e. keep them from getting too heated. No offense intended.
 
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You're assuming I'm not a "plumber" then, correct? :)

Btw, sorry if my LoL offended you. I know it can come off as flippant from some, but in my case it's really just an effort to keep things light, i.e. keep then from getting too heated. No offense intended.

None taken, and I would not assume you have failed to plumb the depths. In fact, given Paul's comments on the subject, I think none of us has done more than to have scratched the proverbial surface...
 
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None taken, and I would not assume you have failed to plumb the depths. In fact, given Paul's comments on the subject, I think none of us has done more than to have scratched the proverbial surface...

I did find your mention of Christ having more to teach them interesting in this context (though He was relating it more to revelations from the OT Scriptures regarding Himself, as John 16:14 suggests). My argument however would be that the "more" which the Spirit would reveal concerning Hell is being revealed now in our time through visions and dreams.

But sum up your position clearly and succinctly for me. I do find the various pagan concepts of Hades interesting, as well as their relation to the Judeo-Christian view of Tartarus, and "Elysian Fields."
 
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As human beings we are bounded in both time and place. That is to say, we are finite. On the other hand we think of God as completely unbounded. God exists outside of both time and space. God is present everywhere and at all times. That is to say, God is infinite. This is the orthodox theistic understanding of God. To compare the finite to the infinite is beyond our human comprehension. Even to compare a grain of sand to Mount Everest falls far, far, far short. All of this brings up a number of questions in my mind.

The first question being “How is it even possible for a finite creature to offend an infinite God?” Could a grain of sand offend Mount Everest?

The second question being “Even if it were possible for the finite to offend the infinite, would the infinite punishment of a finite creature be just?” I will attempt to craft an analogy. You are in a park enjoying a picnic lunch when you glance down and notice an ant crawling across your sandwich. You are offended. How do you react? You have a number of options. You could ignore the ant. You could brush the ant away. You could move to a different location. You could kill the ant. You could kill the entire ant colony. You could capture the ant and confine it and proceed to torture it for several weeks until it finally dies. That last option is quite inadequate as a comparison to hell because hell is infinite in duration whereas the ant can only be tortured for a finite length of time.

To me the concept of hell flies in the face of any concept of a just and compassionate God. Hell would seem to be an entirely human invention based on a vindictive concept of retributory justice. Perhaps we have the wrong idea of hell. Perhaps we have the wrong idea of justice. Perhaps we have the wrong idea of God. I completely reject the concept of hell as it is traditionally understood in most Christian churches.

I find the concept of hell completely incompatible with the notion of a loving and compassionate God. A God who could inflict such a punishment on even the most vile and evil human being would not really be worthy of our respect, our worship or our love. I do, however, believe very strongly in God's justice but even more strongly in God's love and compassion. I will leave it with confidence in God's care.
 
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Someone told me something rather interesting. Hell is not just..burning fire filled with sinful people. It is also cold, very cold. Fire is not just the only tortuous element.
Anyways, i believe Hell to be a delusion, a mind game of sorts. Hell is insanity. Literally...
It is just an opinion among others not a confirmed belief though.

What are your thoughts?

This depends on whether you mean Sheol or the Lake of Fire. Two different "places." My belief? Sheol is all around us, but the Lake of Fire where the fire is never quenched and the worm never dies, is reserved for after the Great White Throne Judgment. These are not real worms and this is not real fire, of course, but burning conscience and gnawing worms of regret. Sheol, on the other hand, has, to my study, at least 42 different subdivisions, at least three of which are joyous places to be for those who believe. Do a word study on it--it's fascinating to say the least.
 
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Then why does it seem that man's principle of justice is more loving and just than God's, and God's is more along the lines of a Caananite war deity (which according to history the view of him started out as)?

Hell is a scare tactic concept. Hell in the sense of eternal burning torture is the opposite of love and is nothing short of evil sadism.

That's not what I believe at all. I don't even believe in eternal torture.

I think you misunderstood what I'm trying to say.
 
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