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Heaven and Hell
From the earliest civilizations mankind has questioned the concept of a God or higher power as creator. Many religions believe in the concept of a heaven and a hell as a place that souls go to reside after death. Endlessly fascinating and at times controversial, Heaven and Hell are a part of the human experience.
471 Questions
Do you go to hell if you do not accept that Jesus is Lord?
It is my own personal belief that it is only souls of those who wilfully denounce religion and a belief in a higher power and who choose to worship Satan are cast into hell. Otherwise all of us both believers and non believers are welcomed into the light, even those who we consider to be evil in this life, will go to the light.
So whether or not you believe in a higher power he still believes in you and there is nothing that you can do to make father give up on you. It was the heart of man in his attempt to control the people through fear and intimidation that decided what would be considered sinful and to do so would be a violation of religious law.
Our Creator would never limit his children. We are all given free will to do as we want to experience as much of everything that spirit feels is necessary and hopefully during our journey we choose to do good.
Again It is only those who have chosen to give their life to worshiping Satan that are unwelcome in heaven and who are banished to hell.
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That is what the Bible says. We have the choice between eternal or eternal death. But it is more correct to say you have to believe that - Jesus is the son of God and He died to satisfy God's demand that sin be punished.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 20:31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
Is heaven and hell big enough for everyone?
yes
Treating heaven like a physical location will give you a wrong image of eternity. God's creativity is boundless, there is no flaw to be found with heaven.
When you Hang Yourself and do not Live do you go to Hell?
Do not kill yourself, you will go to hell, which is eternal punishment, meaning you will burn in hell forever, it will never end
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The common term translated as 'hell' in the English is from the Hebrew 'Sheol' or the Greek 'Hades' with both simply meaning 'grave or pit.' All humankind then, will go to 'hell' when they die. Even Jesus spent 3 full days and nights in hell.
The Bible speaks of a Judgement process where each and every human being is called or awakened to stand before Jesus to review their lives and be given their first real chance to repent and prove themselves worthy of the gift of eternal life. For all who do, they become spiritual sons and daughters in the God Family on Earth.
For those incorrigibly unrepentant or those who once had been called as a firstfruit and reneged upon that blessing, these face the 2nd Death in the Lake of Fire - physical bodies will burn into ashes. Only Satan and his demons, as spirits, will face eternal damnation in the Lake of Fire (their hell).
Current teachings about humans facing eternal damnation are drawn out of literary works like 'Dante's Inferno' and are not scriptural.
What is the place where people go if they don't go into hell or heaven?
Heaven and hell has different sections. Remember the statement in my Father house are many mansions, these could be found in heaven. Also in hell are different sections, parts burning with fire, part that is extremely cold and so on.
Are India go to in hell or in heaven?
If you choose to worship God Almighty, then yes, if you dont, sorry but then youre going to hell.
Can a person repent for another person's sins?
No each man is master of his/her own soul. 2) I once had this fear, but reading the Bible..Acts 16 : 31 ...but remembered I felt this was a good thing...there is also a web site that talks about (see link below) this may help some decide how this works...
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Catholic AnswerNo. There are a lot of things one person can do for another, and there are things one person should do for another, and there are things that another person must do for another. In the first category, we can always pray for another, and our prayer will be heard, and even in some instances, will be for the remission of venial sin (less serious sin-see the letter of St. James 5:16-19; the second category, we should do for another person, forgive them, pray for them, take care of them, be Christ for them, and the third category - we must, like baptism, there is no way that anyone can baptize themselves. But, nobody can repent for another person, that is entirely the other person's responsibility, although, of course, we should pray for them to be brought to repentance, but we cannot repent for them.Who will live on the new earth after everyone has gone to heaven or hell?
Yes every one will die eventually
but that will not happen in one go unless the Americans become even more idiotic
and ignite all the nuclear bombs.
So even if that happens evolution will probeble make even smarter humans.
Do puritans believe in Heaven and Hell?
Yes, and the path to get there was in their belief of 'Predestination.' This belief developed by John Calvin stated that mankind was predestined before their births to go to either heaven or hell. Puritans deduced that since no one knew which they were predestined to go to, they had to work diligently hard to insure they would be found worthy in God's eyes to go to heaven. Hence, the wealthy members were thought to have found favor in God's eyes already and were surely going to heaven. Many have said that these beliefs were the results of their isolating the group and over the generations, perverted the meaning of Scripture into the interpretations of men. The Scripture states that the only sure way to receive eternal life and be with the Family of God is to keep the Commandments:
John 14:21New King James Version (NKJV)21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."
Additionally, the Bible is replete telling us that God is not impressed with what a man has or looks like, but rather what a man does with what he has been given. God looks for a humble and meek spirit in mankind. He has given all free will to chose His way or the way of this world. Jesus died for all mankind so whoever believes in Him may receive eternal life in the God Family - any and every one.
Isaiah 66:2New King James Version (NKJV)2 For all those things My hand has made,
And all those things exist,"
Says the Lord.
"But on this one will I look:
On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word.
When a person die does the soul go to heaven or hell as the last breath has drawn?
The Bible is very clear that mankind is NOT made up of two parts: physical body / and soul. Mankind does NOT have an 'immortal soul'.
Genesis 1:20 shows that even animals are called 'souls'. Animals do not go to heaven or hell.
Genesis 2:7 does NOT state that Adam was 'GIVEN' a soul upon creation; Adam BECAME a soul. The physical man Adam WAS a soul, just as animals ARE souls.
Therefore when a 'soul' dies (animal or mankind), all life ends. There is nothing living and conscious that goes anywhere.
Ezekiel 18:4 clearly states that 'the soul that sins, it itself shall die'. Therefore even 'souls' DIE.
Instead of teaching the 'immortality of the soul', the Bible teaches there will be a 'resurrection', 'on the last day'. Until then, the soul is DEAD.
Did Jesus go to Heaven or Hell when he die on Earth?
Jesus went to Heaven when he died on Earth, not Hell.
What is the difference between heaven and hell?
heaven is God's kingdom created that so whoever believes in his son our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ will spend eternity there with him -sounds like fun right
Hell is a place God created also know as the lake of fire talked about in the book of revelation in the Holy Bible. it is a place were those who chose to live their life here on earth without knowing Jesus as their Lord and Saviour go. and are there for an eternity without end where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth dosent sound like to much fun burning up huh?
and if your thinking you might go there you should know God will also throw Satan and his fallen angels in there one day too up otherwise known as the rapture where there will be 7 years of peace and 7 years of war has anyone noticed that God is a God of order he seems to do things in 7s.
so id start going to church if i were you become a christian today :)
The question should be; "how populated will the heaven be?" When people die, they don't immediately go to heaven or hell. They still have to wait for the Day of Judgement to come, is you believe in it. Anyway, when people die they have to spend their time in their graves or wherever we human beings have disposed off them. Two angels descend upon them and ask them questions about how they spent their lives. did they get the message of God and did they follow it? ( They know but they still want to hear it from the person who has passed from this world and is ready to go to the next, so that the person can reaize what he did when he was alive) If they pass the questions, Good people enjoy restful sleep in a cool, pleasant, scented surrounding. Those who cannot answer the angels and are evil people face the horrors of the grave or wherever we have sent them to decompose. These bad people are tortured by the ground and its horrible insects and reptiles, snakes and lizards. They can experience everything, they cry and call out for help but we cannot hear them, and we cannot see it. This is not the plot of a horror movie. Its true. Death is nothing but time spent in a "waiting room" in anticipation of meeting God and answering some serious questions. What sort of "waiting room" a person ends up in, is totally upto him or her. There was a graveyard keeper who revealed that once he was digging an old grave to remove the bones and make space for another body due to lack of space in the graveyard. When he opened the coffin, he was stunned to see that the body of a girl, who had been buried several years ago was still intact and a sweet scent was coming out of her body and she looked like she was fast asleep. He immediately shut the coffin and covered the grave again. Such is the condition of people who are good when they die. Coming back to your question the population o heaven will only be decided when we meet God and He decides which one of us deserves to populate the Heaven. Nobody has an answer to that. Nobody really knows the mysteries of the world of the dead and nobody can fully explain. There are millions of innocent children who have a promise from God to go to Heaven, and if you dig their graves , you might find only their bones. That does not mean they have been punished. The girl I mentioned may have made special efforts to follow God and therefore nothing could touch her. I think its safe to say that when we die all our souls go to a "waiting room", to wait for the Day of Judgment. Some people get to wait in "privilege clubs". Others have to wait in "Houses of horrors". Only 144,00 men who were not defiled by women. Revelation 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. When we die our souls are lifted , we stand at the holy gates and if your name is written in the book of life then yes you get to go to heaven. If not then you go to hell and burn for eternity. We are not waiting around in some waiting room waiting for the Messiah to come back.
Did the Jews homosexuals and others that Hitler killed go to heaven or hell?
Whether or not ANYONE goes to heaven or hell depends on personal religious belief. The Jewish religion doesn't even believe in eternal hell.
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Heaven is nice and bright. It also has gold streets and you will never be sad or mad in heaven since everything is bright and happy. There is no night, it is only day, but you will not get sleepy.
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That depends on whom you ask - for example, different religions have different ideas about heaven. According to people interviewed by Dr. Moody (who had seen a glimpse of the afterlife - see the book "Life after Life"), the afterlife is so different to this life that it can not be adequately described.
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Jesus said "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."
This means that the spirit of God, along with love, kindness, compassion and altruism, dwells with innate goodness in an individual.
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Those looking for a Heaven with St. Peter at the gate and a place of golden slippers, streets of gold, (the golden slippers and streets of gold come from an old southern spiritual), silver rivers and green valleys might be disappointed.
Or, those who reach Heaven might find that it is what they want it to be.
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No one can say what Heaven looks like because no one has come back to tell us. Just envision the most overwhelmingly wonderful place you can, and for you maybe that's exactly what it will be. Additionally, since Jesus said it is within yourself, you already have all the wonders of paradise in your own body and soul.
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The word 'Heaven' has different meanings in the Bible. (Even as our English word 'sky' can have different meanings. ie: the night sky - referring to the stars / plane flies in sky - meaning in the atmosphere, but certainly NOT in the night sky.)) So, we have to take this into consideration; and have an understanding of 'context'.
- 1) Heaven refers to the Physical Universe,. You know what that looks like, especially if you look thru a telescope. You see the planets, the stars; but also includes the various forces which bind the physical Universe together.
- 2) Heaven also refers to the Atmosphere surrounding the earth. In other words the 'air'. This is where birds fly. Where the clouds exist. Certainly you understand that the birds do not fly in the #1 meaning of heaven; birds don't fly between the planets.
- 3) Heaven also refers to the 'Invisible Realm'. God dwells in the Heavens. But he is certainly not confined to the Atmosphere. Nor is he confined by the 'Physical Universe'. God dwells in an invisible realm, undetectable to us and our means of detecting.
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God does not need 'eyes' to see. God is not limited by the speed of light. God exists in 'another dimension' we know nothing about; because we are just too limited.
We use the word 'heaven' because that's all we can comprehend in some very very small way - - and still we really can't comprehend at all.
So the question, if referring to the 'dwelling place' of Jehovah God; the question cannot be answered. None of us are capable of knowing; just as we can't really comprehend that God always existed. It's too much for our brain; it just blows a gasket; so we simply 'accept' the truth of what the Bible does say.
Heaven is a real place described in the Bible. The word "heaven" is found 276 times in the New Testament alone. Scripture refers to three heavens. The apostle Paul was "caught up to the third heaven," but he was prohibited from revealing what he experienced there (2 Corinthians 12:1-9).
If a third heaven exists, there must also be two other heavens. The first is most frequently referred to in the Old Testament as the "sky" or the "firmament." This is the heaven that contains clouds, the area that birds fly through. The second heaven is interstellar/outer space, which is the abode of the stars, planets, and other celestial objects (Genesis 1:14-18).
The third heaven, the location of which is not revealed, is the dwelling place of God. Jesus promised to prepare a place for true Christians in heaven (John 14:2). Heaven is also the destination of Old Testament saints who died trusting God's promise of the Redeemer (Ephesians 4:8). Whoever believes in Christ shall never perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
The apostle John was privileged to see and report on the heavenly city (Revelation 21:10-27). John witnessed that heaven (the new earth) possesses the "glory of God" (Revelation 21:11), the very presence of God. Because heaven has no night and the Lord Himself is the light, the sun and moon are no longer needed (Revelation 22:5).
The city is filled with the brilliance of costly stones and crystal clear jasper. Heaven has twelve gates (Revelation 21:12) and twelve foundations (Revelation 21:14). The paradise of the Garden of Eden is restored: the river of the water of life flows freely and the tree of life is available once again, yielding fruit monthly with leaves that "heal the nations" (Revelation 22:1-2). However eloquent John was in his description of heaven, the reality of heaven is beyond the ability of finite man to describe (1 Corinthians 2:9).
Heaven is a place of "no mores." There will be no more tears, no more pain, and no more sorrow (Revelation 21:4). There will be no more separation, because death will be conquered (Revelation 20:6). The best thing about heaven is the presence of our Lord and Savior (1 John 3:2). We will be face to face with the Lamb of God who loved us and sacrificed Himself so that we can enjoy His presence in heaven for eternity.
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Did Jesus go to hell for 3 days to give a 2nd chance?
No! After death there is no second chance. When you are dead physically and spiritually there is no second chance for salvation.
In I Peter chapter 3 we are told that Jesus in His spirit went to the place where the fallen angels are kept in chains until the day of judgment and then cast into the Lake of Fire. Jesus went there to proclaim that He had gained a total victory over Satan and all his cronies by dying on the cross.
And yes His body lay in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights. Some do believe there is a second chance, but it is not supported by scripture.
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Yes, as He was fully human and had to do all that humans do. The most common term for 'hell' used is 'Sheol' in the Hebrew and 'Hades' in the Greek and simply means grave or pit. Jesus gave only one sign of His Messiahship, that of Jonah being 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the great fish (metaphor for grave):
Matthew 12:40New King James Version (NKJV)40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Jesus died so all mankind can have A chance at God's gift of Salvation.
In two words: You die!
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, unabridged, under "Hell" says: "fr[om] . . . helan to conceal." The word "hell" thus originally conveyed no thought of heat or torment but simply of a 'covered over or concealed place.' In the old English dialect the expression "helling potatoes" meant to place the potatoes in the ground or in a cellar.
If you do not believe that Christ Jesus died on the cross for your sins, if you always deny the Lord in front of people, if you do not follow God's Word (The Holy Bible) and do not ask forgiveness from God you can go to hell when you die.
Answer:- Apart from those already assigned to hell i.e. those who were cast out of heaven. A person may be assigned to hell after having once received a testimony that the Holy Spirit exists, and then coming out in open defiance or rebellion that the Holy Spirit does not exist. This is the worst of all known sins, even murder. A person may deny the existence of God and Christ, but once having had a sure knowledge that the Holy Spirit has testified a truth to him and then denying of it's existence is a sure candidate for hell.
Do mediums go to Hell or Heaven?
Only God can judge where people go at the end of their lives.
Roman Catholic AnswerIndeed, we can not judge anyone's final destination. If you are asking if mediums are sinning, yes they are as this kind of communication is forbidden for Christians.Who will go to hell Christians or Muslims?
One view
Neither. Hell does not exist - the notion was created by man to help keep the faithful in line.
Are the good going to heaven as many Christians believe or is Heaven coming to the Earth?
The answer to both questions is No.... Those Christians telling you that are actually incorrect according to the biblical texts.
While mankind is on this earth, all souls return to the Father who gave them .... All of them... Not some of them
Ecclesiastes 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
However there are two places in heaven that souls reside, Read Luke 16.
Once the true Christ returns, Revelation 20 all souls experience the 1000 years with Christ (here on this earth)
Afterword testing and the final judgment occurs Revelation 20 and 21.
Actually, depending on how the word is used, either can be correct.
"The heavens opened up and it rained for 3 days."
"I hope I get to see St. Peter when I arrive at Heaven's gate."
Both are grammatically correct.
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I don't know if there's a formal name for it... but, I call it the basis for a pretty good fiction story.
If you commit sloth do you go to hell?
Sloth is indeed one of the seven deadly sins. In classic Catholic terminology, serious sin is called mortal sin, because it caused death of the soul, and it only requires one mortal or serious sin to completely kill the life of the spirit in the soul. So, yes, serious sloth is more than enough to go to hell.
How did the apostle teach about the deity of your lord jesus christ?
In apologetics today a common argument against orthodox Christianity is that if the God of Israel, the God taught in the Shema is
only one then how can Jesus Christ also be God? They will then point to two different texts Deut 6:4 and then to 1 Corinthians 8:6 they will say," see it clear says Jesus is Lord and not God". This does appear to be the case to anyone who has no biblical background. With a little context I believe we can answer this question.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
1 Corinthians 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
In ancient times the Jews believed the Name of God, Yahweh, to be so utterly sacred that that they would not speak it or even write it out. However, they still needed to refer to God by His proper Name, so they devised what is called the Tetragrammaton which when transliterated is YHWH. Every place they wished to say Yahweh they would substitute YHWH in its place.
So Deut 6: would read Hear, o Israel: YHWH our God, YHWH is one. Our English bibles have substituted the title LORD in all capital letters for YHWH. So anytime you see LORD in our English bible, the underlying Name is Yahweh.
Before Christ Alexander the Great helped koine Greek to become the common language among most of the known world, and by the time of Christ almost everyone including the Jewish leaders would have predominantly read and spoken Greek. This was possible in part due to the fact that in roughly 285 bc a group of 70 Jewish scholars assembled in Alexandra, Egypt to translate the Hebrew scripture into koine Greek. Almost 300 years before Jesus of Nazareth walked the hills of Galilee the many prophecies of His coming had been verifiably recorded in history in what is called the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Tanakh (Old Testament).
When translating the Hebrew to Greek the translators who were Jewish had the same issue with the Name of God, so the used the Greek word Kyrios which means Lord. So every time a Jew would read YHWH in the Septuagint, it would read as Kyrios. This meant that anytime a Jew would read that word Kyrios they would automatically do what they had done their entire lives and mentally replace it with YHWH or Yahweh.
Fast forward to the New Testament and the writers had to have a way to say that the Father and the Son are both God, that they are both of one essence, but not the same in person. Sound difficult? Well God had planned this all from before the foundation of the world, so it wasn't.
In 1 Cor 8:6 when Paul says, "But to us there is but one Theos (God), the Father", he has identified the Father as Theos, and to say that Christ is also Theos would be to say that Christ is also the Father which is incorrect and confusing. Paul being a first class scholar knew that Jews would identify Kyrios as YHWH when they read it in his writings because of its use in the Septuagint. So Paul used Theos for the Father and Kyrios for the Son. This made sure that no one would mistake the Father for the Son and vice versa.
With this context we see that when Paul a Jew wrote Kyrios, he meant us to read it as Yahweh. This is evident in his application of O.T. stricture to Christ in Romans 10:13 Paul writes, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Reading a couple of verses before this gives us context and tells us who Paul is identifying as the Lord that needs to be called on in verse 9, " That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Paul knowing the relationship of YHWH and Kyrios from the Septuagint would never had used Kyrios in Romans 10:13 because he would know that in the Tanakh in the book of Joel it said, " And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered"
Following clear logic we say that Paul meant for us to see Jesus of Nazareth as the God of Israel YHWH.
Does a christian who sin go to heaven or hell?
This depends - what branch of Christianity do you follow? Also, what exactly was the sin? Did you know it was sinful when you did it, or not?
Based upon those three answers, you can get a variety of answers. One is definitely going to hell for all of eternity - Catholics believe suicide is a major sin, and since you can't confess afterwards you die with unconfessed sin and therefore go to hell. Another is it depends - some denominations believe that once you are born again, unless you actively reject the glory of Christ, minor sins are automatically forgiven. A third option is going to heaven - some liberal churches believe homosexuality is not a sin (although others disagree vehemently and violently) and therefore being homosexual does not consign you to hell regardless of what else is going on.
Of course, the views from those who are not Christian generally fall somewhere upon the spectrum between "you were going to hell regardless of the sin because you do not practice the correct religion" or "you weren't going to hell because it doesn't even exist".
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AnswerThe Church teaches that anyone who dies in a state of mortal sin irrevocably cuts himself off from God and thus exists in a state called "hell". Mortal sin is any serious sin which you know God does not want and you choose to do it anyway. Heaven is the state of living with God, and we are all living in one or another of those two states already on this earth, all death does is remove the possibility of change, confession and repentance.