How Hell work?
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The way I understand it, what the whole "lake of fire" business refers to is destruction, not eternal torment. At the end of the big Armageddon party, everyone who still won't throw in with the winning team is cast down and is no more. That's a little easier to wrap one's head around than the "loving God sends you to infinite torture" doublethink, but still seems a bit dickish to me, especially considering multifaith families like my own.
Or No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, the popular depiction of hell was established by Mr. Alighieri many many centuries after the bible was compiled. The bible did not have an elaborate description of what hell was. That means that Dante's Inferno doesn't have to be the official "hell". Sartre believed that hell doesn't have to consist of physical punishment, the little demons may stick you with the kind people you hate the most. There are an infinite possibilities of hell out there.Akalabeth said:
Disclaimer: I am not a Christian, nor have I read the bible in full, please forgive me if i was mistaken about the bible's depiction of hell.
If we work with the assumption that, as a construct of the Christian Church, that the only people who actually know how hell would work are the Christian Church, we can assume that the Bible, which is where they get their information (we hope), is correct in it's depictions of how hell works.Rednog said:
The bible portrays hell as a horrible place where people are punished for their sins and that the devil is indiscriminately horrible to all who reside there.
This doesn't work with the theory that Satan is proud of our misdeeds and feels like rewarding us for being arses.
If we want to assume that hell exists and that the Christian Church is wrong about it, then we may as well stop this conversation as we're no longer talking about "hell" we're talking about a portion of the afterlife.
So yeah, that's all I have, it's not really well thought out or well written but it boils down to "Why would they tell me something in Sunday School if they're all wrong about it?" If you're talking about a different version of hell that isn't what's taught to children who go to church then we're not having the same conversation.
A place of spiritual anguish, where you sit for eternity knowing there was a God and you could not have faith in that God or you could not follow the rules laid out.
Seconded.Akalabeth said:
If hell exists, I want it to work like that.
The game actually does a better job of giveing you a better idea of how horrible Dante's hell would be though.
Your Logic : If a British Cartoonist and Voice-Actor can't reffer the Devil as "Lucy," no-one can..imnotparanoid said:
YOU ARE THE SMARTEST HUMAN BEING EVER SINCE NATALIE PORTMAN.
Favourite vision of it?
It was used in some comic/story settings, but the best description was from series of stories built around heaven and hell written by polish writer.
The cliche quasi-anarchistic, mob-ruled place. Rocky environment, pools of lava in the warmer parts and freezing cold in other. The demon lords - fallen angels(like Lucifer, Behemoth, Beelzeebub, Lilith, Naimah, Ishtar Innana, etc.), each like a crime lord, fighting for dominance and souls of the mortals. Some are family, some make temporary alliances but in the end their personal agenda is what matters the most. They don't seek to destroy heaven's or world on that matter, it wouldn't be 'profitable' in the long term and they have enough of internal problems to be bothered with that. Of course every now and then they confront the Angels but they are not exact opposite of God's Goodness, more like bunch of rebels.
It was used in some comic/story settings, but the best description was from series of stories built around heaven and hell written by polish writer.
The cliche quasi-anarchistic, mob-ruled place. Rocky environment, pools of lava in the warmer parts and freezing cold in other. The demon lords - fallen angels(like Lucifer, Behemoth, Beelzeebub, Lilith, Naimah, Ishtar Innana, etc.), each like a crime lord, fighting for dominance and souls of the mortals. Some are family, some make temporary alliances but in the end their personal agenda is what matters the most. They don't seek to destroy heaven's or world on that matter, it wouldn't be 'profitable' in the long term and they have enough of internal problems to be bothered with that. Of course every now and then they confront the Angels but they are not exact opposite of God's Goodness, more like bunch of rebels.