Tell me everything you think you know about biblical hell

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Lets see how twisted religion has given you a definition for hell.

Looking for things like the:

Why is there a hell?

What is the purpose of Hell?

What must one do to go to hell?

What must one do not to go to hell?

Who is in hell?

etc.?

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Why is there a hell?
Hell was created for the fallen angels who rose up against God and failed.
What is the purpose of Hell?
To house those souls that have committed such sins that didnt warrant enterance to heaven. And those souls who lived a life of sin without repenting for it.
What must one do to go to hell?
Commit a mortal sin, or commit enough veneal(sp?) sins without repenting for them.
What must one do not to go to hell?
Live a life where you try not to sin, ask forgiveness when you do sin, or be sincere and recant all of the sins you have committed on your death bed.


Best I could answer the questions. Wonder how they will hold up.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Why is there a hell?
Hell was created for the fallen angels who rose up against God and failed.
What is the purpose of Hell?
To house those souls that have committed such sins that didnt warrant enterance to heaven. And those souls who lived a life of sin without repenting for it.
What must one do to go to hell?
Commit a mortal sin, or commit enough veneal(sp?) sins without repenting for them.
What must one do not to go to hell?
Live a life where you try not to sin, ask forgiveness when you do sin, or be sincere and recant all of the sins you have committed on your death bed.


Best I could answer the questions. Wonder how they will hold up.

You have a catholic background right?

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Yeppers, how did you know.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Yeppers, how did you know.

Jesus told me

Just a educated guesstimation.

Its all cool. thanks for the reply, I thought i was going to watfch all my threads fall to oblivion

 

[Sillyman]

Hell is a lake of fire.

The people in hell are the people who reject God.

To not go to hell one must accept God.

As for it's creation and purpose, I have no idea.

 

[Wiggles]

All I know, is that Hitlers down there, dressed up in a little maids outfit.

And satan gets to shove big ol' pineapples up his ass.

Personally, I think he got off pretty damn easy.

 

[Marxist]

There's no Old Testament Hell or Heaven and Satan is a minor (not necessarily evil) figure.

Christians make great inventors.

 

[kotori]

Yeppers, how did you know.

The "venial" versus "mortal" sins gave it away. Catholics are the best inventors.

 

[Sillyman]

I'm not sure, but I believe the story of Lucifer and the rebellion in heaven are not found in the bible, nor is the actual creation of hell.

In a slightly less straight from the bible version...

Heaven is a place you must actually be really good to enter, and that is in works and faith.

People with faith but who sinned far too much end up in Purgatory, which is more of a hell of boredom than anything else, where they have to spend enough time there until they earn a place in Heaven.

Limbo is for good people who did not know god, as well as innocents who never had the chance to accept him, such as babies who died before baptism. It's sort of a null existence.

Hell is for actually very bad people who repeatedly sin without repenting, especially the big ones like rape and murder. It is also a permenant state. Yes Hitler would be here.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The modern Lucifer is an usurpation of the pagan God Pan created, like the Saints, so the Church could take over a competing faith's icons.

Now, go to the Library and check out another book.

 

[paphian]

I know that it made a great horror story to keep the masses in line from about 4000 to about 300 years ago, and has had less and less relevance ever since.

All I can say about that is that it's about time that people wised up...

 

[Pyper]

Didn´t Jesus invent Hell?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

No. The guy who programs ABC Friday Night did.

 

[Sillyman]

Didn´t Jesus invent Hell?

*sigh* No jesus did not invent hell. Hell is the creation of a few sparse biblical passages strung together and then heavily publicized for effect by the later church fathers.

 

[Pyper]

Well, doesn´t he say something like, ´those who do not follow me, let them be cast down and burned before me,´or some such nonsense? I dunno, I read this on a pro-atheist site. Maybe he was speaking literally. Eep!

(edited for nitpicking typos.)

 

[Mellon Collie]

The modern Lucifer is an usurpation of the pagan God Pan created, like the Saints, so the Church could take over a competing faith's icons.

Yep, and Jesus is the Pagan god Attis.

 

[Sillyman]

I don't know. I would need the exact chapter and verse. Even then, these things suffer from interpretation. Taking in what he says before and after that statement may change the meaning entirely.

Jesus mentions hell about twice. The whole bible mentions it about 4 or 5 times. Heaven is mentioned several hundred times.

 

[Pyper]

Yep, and Jesus is the Pagan god Attis.

And God is actually the male consort of the ancient proto-Jewish mother goddess Ashteroth.

 

[Sillyman]

Lucifer is not Pan so much as Pan and other pagan gods such as Cerrunnos were associated with Satan to dicourage therir worship among converts. Many other demons are give half man half animal features on that same basis.

Lucifer does exist as a figure in folklore at the time, along with Lilith. When Lucifer failed to bow before Adam he was cast down to become Satan, which is a corruption of "Shaitan" or enemy.

 

[Pyper]

So, what´s the deal here? While I was gone, did this Sillyman person take over Todd´s job? (No offense, Sillyman, you´re doin´good!)

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

The whole bible mentions it about 4 or 5 times.

31 times old testament
23 times New Testament

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

There's a BIG difference between who and what both the Devil and Hell are in both Testaments. God himself grows and changes as a character through the books.

You cannot say that the "Devil" mentioned in Book A is the same "Devil" mentioned in Book B.

 

[JazzManJim]

Jesus mentions hell about twice. The whole bible mentions it about 4 or 5 times. Heaven is mentioned several hundred times.

Actually, it's the opposite. The Bible mentions the word "Hell" approximately 80 times and refers to it approximately 162 times in the New Testament alone.

The Fall of Lucifer (now Satan) is also recounted in several places (Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14, Luke 10) which not only gives the reason he was cast down, but also a brief recap of the event itself.

I've always thought it was rather obliging of the Pagans to incorporate these things into their own belief systems.

 

[Pyper]

You cannot say that the "Devil" mentioned in Book A is the same "Devil" mentioned in Book B.

The Bible: now conveniently divided into A and B for your reading pleasure.