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Hell
- Thread starter Fool
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Not to me.
and how did you come to this conclusion; if you would be so kind to explain?
Of course!
is this from a personal perspective gleaned from actual experience? or something you came to logically based on your belief system/religion? or something attributable to science?
Logically based.
lostwanderingsoul
Well-Known Member
There are two different words that are translated as "hell". One word simply means the grave. So, everyone is going to "hell" because everyone will die and be buried. The second word means the destruction that will be done to people who refuse to follow God's laws. They will be destroyed by fire, not punished forever by constant burning pain.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
so you're coming from the abrahamic perspective?
the theory of relativity says that energy and mass are the same thing; so, if this is true, how then can you destroy something by fire? doesn't the mass just become something that is fuel for the fire?
isn't god a consuming fire?
Also, the 1st Law of Thermodynamics says that energy cannot be created, or destroyed. It is simply transformed into something else?
The NT also states that death is swallowed up.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
lostwanderingsoul
Well-Known Member
There is no more death for those who follow God. When you throw garbage in a fire, isn't it destroyed. That is how the wicked will be destroyed. God's fire will burn them up, not put them in constant agony for eternity.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
depends on the crowd you get stuck with
I believe we end up alongside others who think and feel as we do.....
How else to be happy?
How else to be fair?
no, when you throw something into the fire, it's form is destroyed but it's energy becomes part, or fuel, of the fire.
lostwanderingsoul
Well-Known Member
And when the fuel is gone the fire goes out. The fires of hell will only burn until all the fuel is gone. The fires ( and suffering ) will not last forever.
According to Judaism, no.
For those who subscribe to the idea, most see it as a temporary state to cleanse the soul that doesn't exceed 11 months.
Hebrew. I suppose it would be 12 months on a leap year.