2022年9月21日 · “Physical fire as we know it on earth does not determine anything about the fire and the burning which are constantly predicated of hell beyond its power to produce the intensest pain. That fire torments the devils who have no bodies, the spirits of the damned before they are reunited with their earthly bodies, and finally also their bodies.

And it seems there is some reason for saying that it need not necessarily be a real fire, or that this is a literal, real worm that is referred to here. But it is interesting to note that one of the Bible words used to describe Hell is Gehenna, and that referred to the garbage dump of the valley of Hen (Hinnom), where there was fire constantly ...

2024年11月8日 · Fire and brimstone describes some of what hell is like —but not all of what hell is. The word the Bible uses to describe a burning hell— Gehenna —comes from an actual place, the valley of Gehenna adjacent to Jerusalem on the south.

2018年8月27日 · The idea is relatively simple: if hell is eternal fire, then it would appear to mean that hell is a fire that burns for eternity. If hell is a fire that burns for eternity, it must have fuel to burn forever. And since that fuel is people, it follows …

2021年9月20日 · Hell is not of this world. I think there are three good reasons to take the descriptions of hell as metaphorical starting points revealing something much worse than the reality of actual flames and a lake of fire. This is not an air-conditioning of hell, as one prominent theologian has warned.

Some have interpreted references to the fires of hell as allegory rather than literal. What does the Bible really say? In Mark 9:43, Jesus taught, "If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire."

Is there actual, real hell fire, or is that merely a vivid image representing God’s displeasure? Jesus Christ spoke about the fires of hell and of hell itself as a very real place of fire and eternal torment.

The time when the real fear of a real hell fire comes on an individual is after he has sinned willfully against the knowledge of God's truth that has been opened to his mind!

2010年8月20日 · There is a real fire in hell, as truly as you have now a real body—a fire exactly like that which we have on earth in everything except this—that it will not consume, though it will torture you.

Over 70% of American adults believe in heaven, but barely half believe in hell. When many people think of Satan and hell, they picture an imaginary lair governed by a cartoonish tyrant in red tights. On an episode of the NBC hit show about heaven called The Good Place, the lead characters visited the bad place (hell) for the first time.