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I'd love to hear what you think.
Of course, there's what the Bible says, but how many of us really go by that anyway?
I have never heard of that perception before. Thank you for sharing it.Hell is simply the grave. A place to wait for the resurrection.
I have never heard of that perception before. Thank you for sharing it.
Do you reckon the soul/spirit waits in the grave with the body until the second coming?
lol yus. I was banned, but I've been allowed to return.Wow, that's weird, I was just thinking about you yesterday. You came to mind very strongly and I was wondering how you were doing and wow here you are posting a new thread after being away for so long. Good to see you around.
Welcome back!!
Also I noticed you have an avatar of Mary and Jesus.
I thought mormon heaven included most people, and that no one is going to hell. That's what a lot of mormons say on RF. The highest level of heaven was reserved for the mormons.There is no color in hell and very little light, everything is in grey scale. No yellow flames, just grey flames, everything is grey, dreary, haunting, scarey, etc. Most of the world will spend time in hell paying for their own sins, Hell is a refiners fire. it's an extremely painful purifying process, more painful than we can imagine. It's better that we try and purify our lives now so we can avoid hell or any suffering in the next life.
Hell is a place of lonliness, torment, suffering, sorrow and regret for sins committed in this life, the opposite of everything that is good and which makes us happy in this life and those things which will make us happy in the next life. There is no happiness in hell only sorrow and regret for sins committed.
I have one more question that just sprang to mind. Earlier you said that hell is nothing but being in the grave. So do all experience hell, even if they are the right type of Christian? Is it that only the true types of Christians are going to be resurrected?Well, I don't believe that man has a separate "spirit" that lives inside his soul. That would mean man is "dualistic" which has it's roots in pagan religions. I think the Bible is fairly clear that man doesn't "have" a soul but rather man is a "living soul" (Genesis 2:7).
So at death that "soul" dies (Ezekiel 18:4, 20) and waits in the grave until it is resurrected (Job 14:10-15).
I have one more question that just sprang to mind. Earlier you said that hell is nothing but being in the grave. So do all experience hell, even if they are the right type of Christian?
Is it that only the true types of Christians are going to be resurrected?
So you actually believe in hell? It's just some place where formerly inconsiderate people go when they die? That isn't too descriptive. Try again?Hell and Heaven are basically the same in design except that at death all the inconsiderate jerks go to one and all the considerate people go to the other.
That's why one's hell and the other one's heaven.
That shows just how little you know about religion nice try....Hell as a place of eternal suffering does not exist, the same a heaven as a place of eternal bliss. Both have limited biblical support, and were greatly embellished by the Christian church to use the carrot/stick method of gaining believers.
Very Buddhist I like it.Hell is, IMO, not a place but a spiritual state of the soul. You can 'dwell' there in life just as easily as in death. However, in death, one cannot change the state of one's soul...thats where the various religions start hedging their bets, drawing lines between them, etc. But in life, I believe we are more able to alter our spiritual state, but only at great effort, and only through allowing oneself to be open to the suffering of others.
Oddly enough, it may be that shutting oneself off and dwelling only on one's own suffering (internal misery) is what creates a sense of hellishness. I believe that opening to others' suffering is the beginning of compassion, which allows one to relinquish the hold over one's own private hell, and by doing so that private hell also relinquishes its hold on you.
Just my opinion. :angel2:
So you actually believe in hell? It's just some place where formerly inconsiderate people go when they die? That isn't too descriptive. Try again?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------I'd love to hear what you think.
Of course, there's what the Bible says, but how many of us really go by that anyway?
That shows just how little you know about religion nice try....