(January 17, 2013 at 2:20 am)Drich Wrote:(January 16, 2013 at 6:07 pm)apophenia Wrote: What specific things did you learn during your dream of hell that took years of study to "confirm biblically" ? What do you mean by "confirm biblically" ?Before the dream My understanding of Hell was based on the divine comedy. 9 layers based on the sins your life was defined by.
After my experience I found Hell to be nothing like what I read about, and was taught from the church. It was a pit an emptiness,
( I also learned what was so scary about gnashed teeth) It was with out physical flame, but the experience of it was like being consumed as if set on fire (i burned my jacket and myself when I was young trying to make a camp fire with gasoline) In that the raw emotion of being consume, by the darkness or the emptiness is the what Christ was trying to capture when He said Hell was a lake of fire. Because when you are cast into the pit or the 'grave' you are immearsed, consumed or swallowed by it. every fiber of your being screams out in panic as the light of creation fades. As if being consumed by fire/sinking to a bottom of a deep deep lake/ocean. After the thought of an eternity of this sunk in I lost all hope. I was ready to give up my sanity to this place, but i was pulled out. and was told I have the second chance I was begging for, and that Hell was indeed a big place that went on forever, and that I never actually made it past the gates. (I got to peer in)
After much study I found that the OT and The NT version of Hell were describing the same place. even though speaking to different aspects of it. hell was a seperation from God. As God is eternal life, Hell is described as the Grave. I also experienced being consumed by "the fires" of Hell. Before this I though we were to spend an eternity suffering. The bible does not say this. It only says Hell is forever, it does not say we are in Hell forever. Or rather we are aware to the same degree we are now. Christ mentions the seperation of the wheat and the weeds and the wheat and the chaff, where the wheat is taken into the store house (heaven) and the chaff/weeds are thrown into the fire and consumed where their is weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Which BTW is a tightly/tooth shattering clenched jaw, as you attempt to scream out a paniced plea) I'm still not sure if some part of us will be in Hell forever or not, but I do know that our ablity to control our minds (our sanity and higher thinking) is a gift from God which makes it apart of creation. Hell is the void or absents of creation. I am sure once you make it though the gates all of creation will be left behind. (so it will not matter if your physically/spiritually in Hell or not.) -or will it?
If you want to get into it any deeper start a Hell thread. i don't want to hijack this one anymore than I already have.
And you've had 20 years to refine this story, whether on purpose or not.
If I may... my question stays the same; how were you given this revelation? Did God materialize particles in your brain while you were sleeping therefore producing this dream? Did he sit at the feet of your bed an verbally narrate the story and your brain took this and played it out while you were asleep? Did God literally warp space-time around your head so that you could experience a different reality altogether where the revelation was possible?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
