(October 16, 2013 at 5:18 am)Tonus Wrote: Yes, I am serious. I see many references to hell being "separation from god" but no specifics as to what it means. Are the souls of those people in a particular place, and what is that place like? And what is the basis for the claim?
it's a place where some people and 1/3 of angelic host occupy in bodily form and these spiritual beings (and as such have eternal existence) are there because above everything else they want freedom from God's rule and from the restraint of their conscience. so God yields to their desires. one main solace they have is they don't regret their rebellion.
God nature doesn't allow 'torment'; the 'torment' mentioned is the restraint placed on entities to commit evil on others; the more evil they demonstrated prior to this abode the more restraint. So God is still omnipresent but His influence is withdrawn. activities? don't know.
how they got there is another subject. the moderator may not allow that discussion....
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.