| scottie said: In all honesty? I would ask him if certain parts of the Bible are truly representative of his opinions. If he responded with yes, I would look him in the eyes and say "I'll see you in hell" Even if I could somehow trick this omnipotent being into letting me in heaven, I could not sit in there while he tortures 99% of the human race for imagined slights against him. If I were let into heaven, I would be kicked out shortly later for plotting to free innocents from hell. |
Definition: The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she’ohl′ and its Greek equivalent hai′des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge′en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction. However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished (and some believe that this is with torment)
Does the Bible indicate whether the dead experience pain?
Eccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*“Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB; “the grave,” KJ, Kx; “hell,” Dy; “the world of the dead,” TEV.)
Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts* do perish.” (*“Thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “schemes,” JB; “plans,” RS, TEV.)I HIGHLY reccomend going to this link and reading
If you want to read more about the matter I highly reccomend going to this link and reading some interesting stuff about hell. oh and i bet you can't guess what christian denomination I belong to.
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101989234?q=hell&p=par
