Hell - Fact or Fiction?

are you saying that the life we are living now isn't hell? my god, then we are in big trouble. kidding aside, i don't believe hell is an actual place and we have not seen any proof of it's existence. just stories from thousand year old manuscripts that have gone through editing, proofreading and interpretations. i just hope no one here says, "can you see the wind? if you can't see it, then how do you know its there?" i fell for that crap when i was little, and i'm not falling for that again.

When God created us with free will, he gave us the choice to choose Him or anything else. If we ultimately choose Him, then we will spend eternity with Him. That is heaven. If we continually and finally choose anything else, he allows us to make that choice. Hell is separation from God. I don't know what it looks like, whether it is fiery, hot or whatever. I just know whatever or whereever it is, God is not there! I can't imagine a place without God...I don't even want to try. No love, no light, no morality, each person serving self and only self. If that isn't a definition of hell, I don't know what is! Either God is or He isn't. If He is, then you believe in Him or you don't. If you believe in Him, you either do it His way or not. There is good and there is evil, there is light and there is darkness. You have to choose and ultimately you spend eternity with your choice. No, I don't think God banishes anyone there. He allows us to choose where we want to be. An honest judge doesn't arbitrarily put someone in prison. We are told if we do certain things against society, we will be removed from that society for a certain period of time. God tells us the parameters, but He is faithful to His Word. If we choose not to believe Him or choose to do our own thing, who's fault is that? I do think there is hell here on earth right now. It is created by the absence of love for one another; the selfishness of individuals. It is so pervasive that even innocents suffer through no fault of their own. I also think it is only a taste of what it would be like with the total absence of God.

totally agree with u dude! hell is a fiction and so is heaven! and i am an agnostic by the way! i just don't agree with the bible! it doesn't give us anything valuable and it just degrades women! i know for sure that if there is a GOD, then he is not the one that the bible, the quran, the bhagwad gita, or any holy book preaches to be! Heaven and Hell is right here one earth! Its the way we make our life to be that makes it seem to be heaven or hell! if we want heaven, then we must make it so! else we are always gonna end up in hell! i don't think we need to die to go to either heaven or hell! Take Care!

Hell is real my friend, it is both a Kingdom and a prison for Lucifer and his legion. Here he gives lost souls their worst nightmares and manipulates their minds to hopelessness. If you can recall in you methodist education that after the battle of heaven and hell GOD removed the traitor Angle's glorified bodies. And after removing their glorified bodies their powers have greatly reduced they are just spirits now. But as they are spirits they can influence the minds of man, that is why they harvest man's soul for suffering, anger, pain, confusion and most of all he harvest man's energy in going against GOD. This negative energy is gathered in Hell in preparation for the Apocalypse, for Satan will take possesion of the Physical plane and he needs all of that power to do it. Let us not concentrate on the lack of knowledge and the lack of information about heaven and hell but instead let us concentrate on what we can do to avoid going to that place of damnation. I dont agree on just going to mass every week that is lame and a illusion, true salvation from hell and deliverance to heaven comes from your heart. Knowing who is GOD Loving GOD and respecting all life and your neighbors are some of the easy tasks we must do while we are still alive. Please dont linger on the inperfections of the Religious Dogma of the churches, they will not save you only a true relationship with GOD can.

From what I hear your saying is you don't believe in the scriptures anyway so why ponder on something you don't believe in, why do I say you don't believe in it, because you've failed to remember the flood and he only had mercy on eight people left in the whole earth Noah and his family which he found righteousness in Noah.

Tough, you had tried to know about Bible,but matter of fact is thee bible as we believe is the word of God and with due course of time the church and the influential people corrupted the book for their personal benefits.Now about the hell,does it exists or not. Muslims have got book quran ,which is the word of God,and has been sent for whole mankind.The book as only one edition and God Almighty throws open challenge to people of all times to find out any contradictions and till date all the known scientific facts agree with quran and no any scientific fact proved any contradiction. First we have to believe God is one and there is no besides Him and you should not disagree to it either because the universe around us make us to believe so.The arrangements made to make this universal sustainable,is itself a scientific fact and also confirms there is a maker of it . And if you believe there is a maker so magnificent, no one one earth can do it then HE has sent messengers time and time for local areas and for whole mankind. Jesus came for the people of israel and mahmad peace be upon him came for whole mankind ,also no any messenger will follow him, it is proved beyond doubt.If quran has been proved correct ,then why hell would be incorrect.

God didn't create man, man created god as a way of answering things he doesn't know or understand, to comfort those during bad times, to look apon as a wonderful father, provider and creator, and also to keep man in line by love or fear! I am an atheist!

I do not believe in a Hell at all. I know for a fact that there are enough bad things in this world to balance out the good and the bad that a Hell is not necassery.

well am a catholic school student my self and we have bible class once a week. Every year a question is asked abt this subject and the priest would always answer that hell and heaven are state of the mind, a state of the soul there is not an actual place called heaven nor an actual place called hell.

so hard to answer it. no body know, the best thing is do the best, so even hell is fact or no, i think that nothing loose

O Hell, there's no hell. It's all in a man's imagination.

As for me , I do not believe that a separate hell and a heavenly abode exist high up in the skies or wherever it should be . Heaven or Hell ..it's in our life on this earth . Life is beautiful and heaven -like when you have all the comforts; When you are totally deprived of comforts it's just one hell of a lot of existence .

God doesn't send people to hell. He gives us a choice to either believe in him and go to Heaven when we die, or spend eternity in Hell as non-believers in Christ.