(June 15, 2021 at 2:41 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(June 12, 2021 at 12:31 pm)WinterHold Wrote: I believe that hell is not eternal, but very very very very long. Suffering in it will take Billions of years.
I based my faith on this Quranic verse:
The verse doesn't entail that hell is finite. It only recounts, using rhetorical devices, the desperate wish of its inhabitants to get a second chance. Many many verses in the Qur'an contain the keyword خالدون which indicates eternity
The verse doesn't say it's infinite too; but the fate of hell's inmate is dependent on God's will:
Quote:Sura 40, The Quran:
https://quran.ksu.edu.sa/index.php?l=en#...rans=en_sh
( 10 ) Indeed, those who disbelieve will be addressed, "The hatred of Allah for you was [even] greater than your hatred of yourselves [this Day in Hell] when you were invited to faith, but you refused."
( 11 ) They will say, "Our Lord, You made us lifeless twice and gave us life twice, and we have confessed our sins. So is there to an exit any way?"
( 12 ) [They will be told], "That is because, when Allah was called upon alone, you disbelieved; but if others were associated with Him, you believed. So the judgement is with Allah, the Most High, the Grand."
