Do you believe in hell?
By annie81
@annie81 (9)
India
21 responses
@bapi_da (760)
• India
27 Sep 06
Yes I believe in hell.
The term hell is cognate to "hole" (cavern) and "hollow". It is a substantive formed from the Anglo-Saxon helan or behelian, "to hide". This verb has the same primitive as the Latin occulere and celare and the Greek kalyptein. Thus by derivation hell denotes a dark and hidden place. In ancient Norse mythology Hel is the ill-favoured goddess of the underworld. Only those who fall in battle can enter Valhalla; the rest go down to Hel in the underworld, not all, however, to the place of punishment of criminals.
@ChineseRoom (205)
• United States
25 Sep 06
I really dont know. I would imagine that such a place as the afterlife, it would be devoid of any "heaven" or "hell" it would just be it, an extention of this life, the only difference being that we are immortal there.
@gohsh3 (28)
• Malaysia
19 Sep 06
Hell was created by elders or ruling parties(parents, teachers, religious leaders, governments, politicians, gang leaders, ignorant folks) to instill fear in others, sometimes with good intention, so as not to do bad things in general. Heaven was created in the opposite direction. Is good to believe in them if you are on the ruling side.
@jessbyrd00 (42)
• United States
19 Sep 06
In my belief, there is no devil, hense there is no hell. I believe in reincarnation. Our souls leave our body, and are born into another where we become new people and learn new lessons in life.
@srinathakarapu (3093)
• India
17 Sep 06
earth is the only hell an heaven... and it is heaven when u love it and it is the hell when u hate it...
and the heaven n hell r a pure imagination