The Importance of Hell [4 reasons]

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[Silly]

Jesus taught about hell more than all Biblical authors combined.

Here are four good reasons we should understand and believe what the Bible says about hell.

[nmh]

Yes, Christ had the most to say about it.

Still you hear absolute IDIOTS, tell you that “hell is a state of mind”. LOL!

It’s a place and it is real.

[G Larry]

I’m thinking that if St. Paul lived “in fear and trembling”,
then I should be a bit more circumspect about MY life.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

You and anyone that believes in a burning hell are full of sh!t.
You are totally missing the Bible’s point.

[Silly]

So I’m guessing you didn’t read the article.

[WondrousCreation]

Yes, Christ had the most to say about it.

Still you hear absolute IDIOTS, tell you that “hell is a state of mind”. LOL!

It’s a place and it is real.

Absolutely. The Bible is 100% accurate and cannot be questioned. Simple logic leads one to that conclusion. Anyone who thinks that the Bible is NOT 100% accurate isn't using logic.

Hell is where those who stand by man's logic, instead of the Bible's (and God's) logic go.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Obviously, he didn’t.

But I did. And I thank you for posting it.

[GOP Poet]

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[MarkBsnr]

You and anyone that believes in a burning hell are full of sh!t. You are totally missing the Bible’s point.

Would you be able to fill us in on what the Bible's point is?

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

read this ping

[353FMG]

“...don’t believe in the Bible’s teaching on everlasting punishment...”

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They’ll believe it when they get there.

[diamond6]

Here are some pretty scary descriptions of hell.

http://bibleprobe.com/Sister-Menendez-description-of-hell.htm

St. Teresa of Avila also was given the grace to visit hell and her accounts are also pretty terrifying.

[DannyTN]

You also hear them say it's New Testament only. But they ignore...

• Dan 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

And the penalty for sin and the cure...

• Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
• Exd 15:2 The LORD [is] my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he [is] my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

And they ignore God's expectation, which is that we be perfect and holy. Wrongly thinking in their heart that if they are more good than sinful they can stand before a perfect holy God and survive.

• Gen 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
• Lev 11:45 For I [am] the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I [am] holy.

[Secret Agent Man]

The more I’ve read about hell and its description, the more i believe that people (who will remember what they have done while alive - reference Lazarus and the Rich man) will be tormented not by anything physical, but mentally. By what they have done, what they have rejected, what they turned their back on and wanted no part of. Making it all the worse is knowing they could have accepted it but didn’t, and now it’s too late, and they are confronted with this reality and there is no second chance. They will see they were given multiple oportunities and remember all the chances they had, they cannot complain they only got one chance. God has given them what they actually wanted, existence without Him. For these people heaven would be cruel punishment, it would be hell. To be in a place you spent your whole life not preparing for, despising the kinds of things believers will do in Heaven, wanting to be in God’s presence and thanking Him, that would be torture to these folks. But so will be getting what they wanted. Eternal separation from God.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I’m thinking that if St. Paul lived “in fear and trembling”, then I should be a bit more circumspect about MY life.

I think a God who requires his most ardent followers to live "in fear and trembling" sounds more like his opposite number.

[presently no screen name]

the Rich man) will be tormented not by anything physical,

Remember, all the rich man wanted was one drop of water on his tongue. Sounds physical to me.

[G Larry]

I’m sure you’re enjoying your life of no consequences for your actions......

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I still have an impossible time believing one aspect raised here and elsewhere.

The premise is that God respects your choice to reject him and lets you do so in hell. But I believe in an all merciful God. God, in his incomparable love, can’t possibly love me less than my parents do. God the Father is the ultimate parent.

Yet, my parents never “respected” my bad, ignorant, self-destructive choices. They continued always to try and help save me from my bad behavior. They never gave up on me ever, but always kept trying.

Am I to believe my loving God would give up on me to indulge greater foolish, stupid mistakes than even my mortal parents wouldn’t tacitly accept?

I refuse to accept this premise.

[Silly]

Am I to believe my loving God would give up on me to indulge greater foolish, stupid mistakes than even my mortal parents wouldn’t tacitly accept?

I refuse to accept this premise.

Well, that is your whole problem -- it is "your" God who would never do that. You created a concept of a God to suit your beliefs. You aren't letting God to be bigger than you. You somehow expect that a God who you don't understand or agree with to not exist.

"Your" God is a God who doesn't disagree with you or offend you.

But God is a real person, with his own identity. You can't have a real relationship with a person who never disagrees with you.

God is who He is, whether we like it or not.

[Nick Danger]

In one of my computer science classes we programmed some artificial intelligences and we let them interact with each other day and night, for weeks.

After a while the subject of how they got there came up. "Who am I? Why am I here?" The usual stuff. At this point the possibility of a Supreme Being or God came up, and they argued about that a lot.

We decided not to make it easy on them by telling them the truth. We'd let them figure out for themselves, if they could, that their "gods" were nothing more than human computer science students doing a class project.

There was one guy who proposed that at the end, we take all the "intelligences" that didn't believe in us, and put them on a laptop, and make them feel excruciating pain for however long they lasted. We all agreed that sounded like fun, so we did it.