The true meaning of Hell?

Atheist Mind said:

In the bible it says hell is basically eternal suffering.However I have also heard that Hell is just being away from God. In this case I would gladly go to hell if this was all it was. My question is this: Is hell a place of eternal torment, or a pretty normal place but without God?

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Does it matter really?

There are three major ideas behind Hell:

The Inferno: This is a Joke, but keeps sticking around.

The Furnace/Fires: This is based off the lake of fire kind of deal, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, pain and suffering. What causes the pain and suffering, we don't know, but there will be pain and suffering.

The Void: This being away from God. Since God created all there is, nothing is here but the souls that want to be here, it is not a place or a location, it is just "away"

But would you care what the end result was? Would it change your mind or would you just whine that Hell was too evil and God is wrong in making such a place.

This is why asking about Hell is a pointless question as most Christians, don't care about Hell, mainly because why should they care about a place they will never see or go to? It might as well be fantasy, and let Non-Believers end up as they may.

I suppose I might care about Hell, on a personal level if I knew anyone that was going there, but I have accepted long ago that Hell, whatever it is, will not be empty, someone will go there, but I have no control over that so I would not worry about it.

Anyone who says not to think about hell is not doing you well. Anything that the bible mentions is worth taking note of.

Now the bible tells us about the lake of fire where those who are not saved will end up. Where in the bible does it even describe hell as just a separation from God? NOWHERE. Hell is real. But what is the truth about hell. Check out this video.

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I agree with post #42. If you are into your Religion, you should want to know more about it, especially to help others understand why you believe the way you do

First, read my signature.

Second, metaphorically speaking Gods presence in both the OT and NT is represented by fire. Like it was by the burning bush. Yet it didnt burn up because God Himself is eternal, in all His attributes. Including His wrath!

One author says it best:

"Now the wrath of God is as much a Divine perfection as is His faithfulness, power, or mercy. It must be so, for there is no blemish whatever, not the slightest defect in the character of God; yet there would be if "wrath" were absent from Him! Indifference to sin is a moral blemish, and he who hates it not is a moral leper. How could He who is the Sum of all excellency look with equal satisfaction upon virtue and vice, wisdom and folly? How could He who is infinitely holy disregard sin and refuse to manifest His "severity" (Rom. 9:12) toward it? How could He who delights only in that which is pure and lovely, loathe and hate not that which is impure and vile? The very nature of God makes Hell as real a necessity, as imperatively and eternally requisite as Heaven is. Not only is there no imperfection in God, but there is no perfection in Him that is less perfect than another.

The wrath of God is His eternal detestation of all unrighteousness. It is the displeasure and indignation of Divine equity against evil. It is the holiness of God stirred into activity against sin. It is the moving cause of that just sentence which He passes upon evil-doers. God is angry against sin because it is a rebelling against His authority, a wrong done to His inviolable sovereignty. Insurrectionists against God’s government shall be made to know that God is the Lord. They shall be made to feel how great that Majesty is which they despise, and how dreadful is that threatened wrath which they so little regarded. Not that God’s anger is a malignant and malicious retaliation, inflicting injury for the sake of it, or in return for injury received. No; while God will vindicate His dominion as the Governor of the universe, He will not be vindictive."


-The Attributes of God. by AW Pink


Hell is the justice of God being poured out on sinners. We have committed injustice against an infinitely worthy, and good God. Therefore the punishment is infinite. Christ went to the cross, and bore our sin, and then died under the full force of His Fathers wrath satisfying His perfect divine justice. However if we do not place our faith in Christ, we do not have His righteousness (the perfect life He lived which gets imputed to us by faith).


Hell is for those who are still under the law.

PROPHECYKID said:

Anyone who says not to think about hell is not doing you well. Anything that the bible mentions is worth taking note of.

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Agreed. And it was Jesus who spoke more about Hell than anyone else in scripture. Those who leave Hell out of their doctrine, do not do so out of love, but out of ignorance...

The true meaning of hell is that it's where an unbeliever is dead forever.
I used to think hell is a place where people are tortured forever, eventually I stopped believing so because a bible teacher I listened to changed his views and said that eternal suffering is not true according to these verses:

2Pe 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

As you know they were destroyed but they are an example to all the unbelievers that they will be destroyed. No where else in the bible does it talk about eternal suffering of Sodom & Gomorrah. We either perish or we live forever with God

Talking about the unbelievers...
Job 4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

There is a limit to physical punishment
Deu 25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
Deu 25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

There is a limit to physical punishment, it makes sense now as I look at the verses. Also I think the bible puts more emphasis on shame and what people have missed out.
Mat 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

All the unsaved have lost their souls, no matter how life has been on earth for you if God didn't pay for your sins then we will b dead forever.

It's funny how hard it is to understand the bible, I think there's a lot of deception in the world religions but also in christianity looking at all the denominations.