(November 26, 2013 at 6:48 am)themonkeyman Wrote: Hi Folks,
I have been thinking about the Concept of hell more and more and it appears to me with all my reading that there are only two religions that offer the Concept of an 'ETERNAL' Hell.
- Christianity
- Islam
Can someone please tell me if they have found other religions that teach Eternal Suffering, It seams strange that these two are the only two religions that offer this concept.
The question then arises with Pascals Wager in that providing all other religions have less severe Hell's e.g. 1 Year / Forgiveness in the End then the Gamble is getting it wrong with these two.
The other aspect of this is the fact that Islam teach that you will goto Hell permanently for not believing in God i.e. worshiping Jesus.
And Christianity is the inverse of this so its literally a coin toss.
What are your thoughts?
If you look beyond the beliefs of pop christianity, and only read what the bible says about Hell you will find that Hell is eternal, but the bible does not say we are. The eternal fires of Hell were prepared for Satan and his brothers. In some of the parables Jesus talks about us in Hell (Wheat/Weeds, Wheat/Chaff) In those parables we were being consumed by the fires of Hell. Then again in Mat 10:28 Christ directly says:
"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
If you do a simple word search of Hell in the bible you will note that no where in it will you see that 'we' are meant to spend an eternity there. That said I do believe that out time there will largly be dependant on the tiype of person we are. For example a Hitler will spend more time there than, some smow who just couldn't get right.
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?sea...rtnumber=1
