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    Roman

    What is hell?

    Is it permanent or temporary?

    Is it as what Buddhist described as a lower life further from source with more suffering?

    Is it a physical place like Earth or is it a spiritual plane?

    What does hell mean to you and how did you come up with that definition?

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    Roman

    Re: What is hell?

    I'm going with the Buddhist ideal. If you were a loving parent of a drugged out criminal would you want your kid serving a permanent sentence? Of course not, you only want him to serve until he learned better and can contribute to society. With all the father and son analogies in the Bible, this makes sense. I remeber anywhere in the Bible where it said man would be tormented forever. I do know in revelsations, it said the devil, anti-crhist, and false prophet would burn eternally but not man.

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    Ausinus

    Re: What is hell?

    I don't believe there is an afterlife.

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    Roman

    Re: What is hell?

    Thats fair, i don't agree but accept your opinion.

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    Ausinus

    Re: What is hell?

    Quote Originally Posted by Roman View Post
    Thats fair, i don't agree but accept your opinion.
    Why is an afterlife necessary anyway? Just curious.

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    SOLUS

    Re: What is hell?

    You say 'Hell'- if you mean the Christian Hell, then it is temporary. Everyone goes to Hell (they also borrow the Greek term Hades, at times) when they die; Abraham is currently hell, himself. There is a large seperation, if I recall between the holding places for those who've done well, and the area for the damned. At the time of the final judgement, 'Hell will offer up its dead' and 'all [who are not saved] shall be cast into Sheol [the lake of fire]'

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    Nerdo

    Re: What is hell?

    Quote Originally Posted by Roman View Post
    Is it permanent or temporary?

    Is it as what Buddhist described as a lower life further from source with more suffering?

    Is it a physical place like Earth or is it a spiritual plane?

    What does hell mean to you and how did you come up with that definition?
    Hell is listening to pretty much any conservative talk show for more than 30 seconds. What a buncha wackjobs.

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    Sparta

    Re: What is hell?

    I believe we enter a state of enlightenment, everyone.

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    merjoem32

    Re: What is hell?

    I think that hell can also be exprienced here on earth just as heaven can also be experienced here on earth. For example, a young girl that has just been raped by her father is in hell. I think that you don't have to die in order to experience hell.

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    Roman

    Re: What is hell?

    Quote Originally Posted by merjoem32 View Post
    I think that hell can also be exprienced here on earth just as heaven can also be experienced here on earth. For example, a young girl that has just been raped by her father is in hell. I think that you don't have to die in order to experience hell.
    Do you think Hell is an illusion like some say Earth is?

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