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do you believe that hell exist?

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  • 4 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Why don't you ask the death. Go to the grave tonight and ask them.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    What exactly do you think you are living in ? Paradise?

  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    Yes, I believe that Hell exists, however I don't believe that Hell is a place of eternal torture like many falsely claim. I believe that Hell is a place where one is sent to be purified of their sins before they can be reconciled back to God via Universal Reconciliation as the Bible, which is God's infallible Word, teaches.

    Source(s): I'm a proud and devout Christian
  • Raja
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Heaven and hell are only for the spirits, not for human beings. That means, no one lives in any form after death. Spirits are separate elements.

    God cannot watch each and every human being at the same moment. That's why He had created the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Your past determines your present and your present determines your future. God has given freewill to all creatures including human beings. According to this, all human beings have all right to live a life as they wish. But if it happens to be bad and hurts someone, they have to face the consequences. These consequences are created by spirits. It's a natural system. After death no one lives in any form. Heaven and hell are only for spirits. Spirits are separate elements. A human being is not a single spirit. A human being during his/her life time is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, interests and everything. Even thoughts are not your own. For example, when you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A human being is just a robot made of flesh and bones and a toy of the spirits for their games.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Yes

  • 4 years ago

    No. The truth is, after the Roman Catholics completed their Vulgate Bible and decreed that Catholicism was the Empire's newest religion, Emperor Theodosius closed all the Pagan temples, discontinued the Olympic Games, and ordered all Roman citizens to immediately convert to Catholicism. Romans who had been Pagans all their lives saw no reason to embrace Catholicism, so the concept of Heaven and Hell were added to Catholic dogma as both an inducement and a threat to encourage reluctant Pagans to convert. ...and still the old Pagans, who didn't accept life after death, stayed away from the new Catholic churches. Eventually, Augustine of Hippo wrote a pair of philosophical essays which explained Original Sin, as well as explaining exactly how immortality was theoretically possible via the soul, which Augustine defined as a borrowed bit of God's own sacred essence. The essays were very popular among educated Romans and, because they explained why the new Catholicism was better than the old Paganism, they convinced many reluctant Pagans to eventually convert. Because Augustine successfully devised two very good and successful reasons why reluctant Pagans needed to become Catholics, Augustine was posthumously elevated to sainthood.

    Personally, I'm an atheist engineer with a very clear understanding of the nature of objective physical reality and I certainly don't believe I have anything to fear from ancient Roman philosophical propaganda.

  • 4 years ago

    Hell, and the threat of Hell is a "projection" of a theist fear.....

    Heaven is a Carrot-on-a-stick!

    Hell is the warning to chase that carrot..

    The Clergy grabbed us by the crotch....

  • yesmar
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    The symbolic one of torture, no. Eternal oblivion, yes.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I believe in a just God so yes just not mans jnterpretation of it.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Yes, as an unbeliever I experienced the terror of the eternal abyss, and now converted I have peace thank God. You atheists will know EXACTLY what I mean if you do not repent.

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