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Does Anyone Know where Hell is located?

David T

David T

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Scientifically it's in the ground but tiny interestingly. You can see the geological scan that the scientist is studying to clearly show both the scale of hell and it's locality. I heard the problem is that it's always moving so it was just by accident that they were able to achieve such a technology break tbrough.
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Deeje

Deeje

Avid Bible Student
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lostwanderingsoul said:
Did you ever hear of the resurrection? Jesus is going to return to earth and the dead will come out of their graves. It is at this point that those who refuse to obey God's rules will face the second death. Those who accept the rules will live forever with Jesus in His Kingdom. You say a God of love does not torture but He does destroy the wicked.
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Matthew 10:28:
Jesus said...... "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [gehenna]." (NASB)

So yes, those who end up in "gehenna" (not sheol or hades) are "destroyed", not tortured. Only God can restore a person's life (body and soul) in the coming resurrection. (John 5:28-29)

John 3:16....
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life."

The Greek word "perish" here is "apollymi" which, according to Strongs means....

"to destroy

  1. to put out of the way entirely, abolish, put an end to ruin
  2. render useless
  3. to kill
It never means to torment or torture....so "gehenna" was something Jesus' Jewish audience understood very well. They knew it wasn't conscious torment after death.....it was a never ending death....like Adam, people go back to where they were before they were created.
 
Aupmanyav

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Oh yeah, we have found three new habitable worlds. Hell is somewhere out there a few light-years away or perhaps a million, where the climate and atmosphere is more like that of Venus or Mars.
 
Hockeycowboy

Hockeycowboy

Witness for Jehovah
Premium Member
allfoak said:
I am late for an appointment and my GPS seems to be fried.

Seriously.
What do all of the religious traditions say about Hell?
Is there any proof or did someone make it up?
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It's not so much a "place" which can be located, as it is a "condition." The "condition" is that those who've died (death being the cessation of life), will be given a resurrection, as opposed to those who are thrown in Gehenna, i.e., the Lake of Fire....These ones will be dead forever.

It's as simple as that.
 
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Hockeycowboy

Hockeycowboy

Witness for Jehovah
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PopeADope said:
A Dogma that sickens me. I'm done thinking about such madnesses. I can't love a God responsible for something so cruel, unjust, and disgusting!
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Me, too! It irritates me to no end, that this teaching has been promoted by Christendom for centuries. And I used to believe it! I'm glad I learned the truth about it. It really restored my faith in God. I also learned His Name.... Yahweh in Hebrew, Jehovah in English.
 
Augustus

Augustus

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allfoak said:
I am late for an appointment and my GPS seems to be fried.

Seriously.
What do all of the religious traditions say about Hell?
Is there any proof or did someone make it up?
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Gehenna, (/ɡɪˈhɛnə/; גיא בן הינום‎ Ancient Greek: γέεννα), from the Hebrew Gehinnom (Rabbinical: גהנום‎/גהנם‎), is a small valley in Jerusalem and the Jewish and Christian analogue of hell. The terms are derived from a place outside ancient Jerusalem known in the Hebrew Bible as the Valley of the Son of Hinnom (Hebrew: גֵיא בֶן־הִנֹּם‎ or גיא בן-הינום‎, Gai Ben-Hinnom). The Valley of Hinnom is the modern name for the valley surrounding Jerusalem's Old City, including Mount Zion, from the west and south. It meets and merges with the Kidron Valley, the other principal valley around the Old City, near the southeastern corner of the city.

In the Hebrew Bible, Gehenna was initially where some of the kings of Judah sacrificed their children by fire.[1] Thereafter it was deemed to be cursed (Jer. 7:31, 19:2-6).[2]

In Jewish Rabbinic literature, and Christian and Islamic scripture, Gehenna is a destination of the wicked.[3] This is different from the more neutral Sheol/Hades, the abode of the dead, although the King James Version of the Bible usually translates both with the Anglo-Saxon word Hell.


You can even find directions on Google Maps
 
Quintessence

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
"Hell" is not really a recognized concept in my religion. But in listening to the stories of others who tell the tales, I would consider their hells to be one of the otherworlds. The idea of "location" is not really applicable for the otherworlds as they do not reside in the apparent world, or our frame of space-time reference. The otherworlds are here, not-here, there, and not-there, now and not-now, then and not-then.
 
wizanda

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
The Ragin Pagan said:
Hel isn't dark in Heathenry.
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Hel the female deity rules over the underworld (Hel); which thought was a cold misty place of lost souls?

If you've got the text to question, would be interested; as Valhalla's version of Hel on the ZX Spectrum, was slightly limited. :innocent:
 
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