(June 14, 2014 at 5:48 pm)CindysRain Wrote:(June 14, 2014 at 4:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Then there's the fact that as the story goes - NEXT time he's not going to kill them all by drowning, he's just going to throw most of them in a fire.
Hey, it's an improvement at least.
Ahh the eternal torture chamber of fire, cause apparently death would be too kind.
Aside from the charred flesh and non-stop pain
my other issue with hell is the injustice of it.
You take someone who spends their life being a good person without religion, but because they did not obey John 3:16....that person will burn forever in hell, alongside the likes of murderers, rapists, etc.
Prisons are kinder. They do not give a shoplifter the same punishment/prison time as a child molester.
According to the fairy tale bad souls get thrown into the lake of fire on Judgment Day. Hell ceases to exist because it's also thrown into the lake of fire, along with Death. Hell is just a temporary holding pen, like Death and the Sea. The lake of fire is permanent. However, it says that Satan, the False Prophet, and the Beast are the only ones who will be tortured for eternity.
Just because you go to hell it doesn't mean that you won't get into the giant gaudy bejeweled golden cube called New Jerusalem. Based on its name it might help if you're Jewish. Gentiles will have a hard time. Abraham and David might be there circumcising all of the uncircumcised guys (and maybe the women as well).