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?
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.
I don't believe there is an afterlife.
Thats fair, i don't agree but accept your opinion.
Why is an afterlife necessary anyway? Just curious.Originally Posted by Roman
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]'
Hell is listening to pretty much any conservative talk show for more than 30 seconds. What a buncha wackjobs.
I believe we enter a state of enlightenment, everyone.
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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