Hell : A Conspiracy Of The Afterlife

The idea of the Christian Hell has evolved from older beliefs. Originally Jews believed all dead

While both Christians and Muslims agree on a life after death of either Heaven or Hell, the differences in their views of the afterlife reflect on how they each see God and what their main goal was to accomplish on earth. Both Christians and Muslims have a Holy Book to follow. Christians have the Bible and Muslims have the Qur’an. Both religions use these books as a guideline to eventually get to Heaven. Where the differences start to affect the afterlife is who each religion prays to. Christians pray to Jesus as God’s Son but Muslims pray to Muhammad. Because of this, Muslims say that Christianity is faulty (Schirrmacher). In the Bible, Christians are assured Salvation when they accept Christ as their personal Savior. Muslims are not assured

The existence and the nature of the afterlife is not the only thing that remains constant across all these religions. Reaching salvation in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism is achieved the same way between all of these religions. “Salvation provides us with the understanding of the relationship between God and the Faithful. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, there are particular priorities that must be recognized in order to fully understand this relationship and its correlation with the truth and good behavior” (Khalil, Mohammad Hassan. 1-6 (ix-ixxx)) Ultimately in all of these religions, people who have lived good and righteous lives and believes in god and the prophets will go to Heaven and achieve salvation, and the people who live sinful

In chapters five and seven of the Book of Matthew, it reveals that some may not be granted entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven after facing judgment. An analogy is made that the good tree of heaven cannot possibly bear bad fruit just like a bad tree cannot bear that of good fruit. “Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their fruits you will know them” (Matthew 7: 19-20) indicating the tradition view of Hell being a dark, fiery, pit of depraved spirits. In the Gospel of Mark, Hell is referred to as “Gehenna” which is a term associated in Hebrew scripture that dictates it a place of the wicked. Hell is a place where God’s judgment has inscribed the sin filled life upon one’s spirit. In the Gospel of Luke, Hell is referred to as a place where sinners are “perished”. In the parable of the rich man and lazarus, the rich man whom deemed to hell requests to warn his brothers of the afterlife, “Then Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead” (Luke 16: 31). This draws a similar comparison to the rejection of Jesus’s resurrection in the greatest sacrifice to repent for all humankind’s sins. God grants the gift of mercy and infinite love to all, but a soul can be condemned to Hell due to their free will and the

At death, the body ceases to function and decays, but the soul of everyone is immortal and will be judged immediately. The souls of those who are faithful to God will be purified and go to live with God in heaven. However, the soul of anyone who has denied God will spend eternity separated from God in hell. At the end of time, all of the dead will be bodily resurrected and each individual will be judged and either rewarded or punished according to the life that they led.

Hell seems to be like a place where people tend to just go with the motions. Only the people who truly want to leave will. In the book of Revelation, Hell is described as fiery lake of burning sulfur. This scripture lines up most with what I have been taught about Hell.

The first level in Hell is called Limbo. Limbo is considered a place of sorrow without torment. All the individuals who die before being baptized and the ones who live as pagans are sentenced to spend the rest of eternity at this level. The people who die before accepting Christianity are the people being talked about. All individuals who die non-Christians, including philosophers who do

The world in hell has a totally different set up in the book rather than the casual all in flame, red and hot place that the most common person might think or describe, but an elevator kind of feel, with different stages, settings and even ice on hell. Hell is set up in nine circles that each contain a strong meaning and also some very interesting cultural figures, each circle has a meaning from Limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and the worst of them all, treachery were Lucifer himself was placed. Each of these levels are Dante's vision of hell, and for each sin is the way he grades how bad the action was. Nevertheless, the feeling of true dislike in some these important figures such as Alexander the Great, Pope Anastasias, Helen of Troy and even a Centaurus which is a mythological creature are place in hell for those motives.

Namely, hell is a place where the inhabitants suffer inconceivable torment for all eternity. The Bible plainly argues this, and to believe that the Bible does otherwise will require improper hermeneutics. One of the prime examples that reveal the severity of hell is Calvary: Jesus died a severe death to save humanity from a severe torment. Additionally, a loving God does not reject the idea of hell since He is just in punishing the infinite crime of

On the contrary, this view stems from looking at the punishment from the standpoint of human justice systems. This is not a valid way to view hell as a punishment because God determined what acts deserved what punish meant a great number of years before the creation of any human justice systems. Although you must “die” an earthly to be sent to Hell, you are not “dead” while in Hell because you can not be tormented if you are dead. The unsaved will have everlasting consciousness which enables them to suffer the torment.

Hell, it is a common theme that gets represented fairly often in Early Christian and Medieval art. Religions that follow Christian practices view Hell as a place of indescribable torment and torture in the afterlife where unholy souls are eternally doomed by Christ’s decision on the day of the final judgment. If someone’s soul is deemed holy then they will ascend into heaven and live with the holy trinity and among the angles. The fear of death and the uncertainty of existence in an afterlife is one of the main reasons why religious traditions are practiced by billions of people. Christianity teaches that people must follow the laws that God governs and accept Jesus Christ as lord in order to enter the gates of heaven and have eternal peace.

At the time of death, one’s spirit will separate from their body and either ascend to heaven or be bound to Hell according to their deeds performed on Earth. That’s because it is believed that humans have the ability (free will) to choose between good and evil. Muslims and Christians believe that angels exist as well as Satan and his evil spirits who follow him: the enemies of humanity. Also, it is said by Muslims, that on the day Jesus returns, the Last Day, the dead will be resurrected and both the dead and alive will be judged. They will either be rewarded by going to heaven, or punished by going to hell. Likewise, Christians believe that on the last day, referred to as judgment day, God will bring forth his judgement upon all those: dead or alive. He will reward or punish them by sending them to either heaven or Hell.

In both the old times and modern time of Christianity, one of the main controversial topics has surrounded one single word. Hell. Some people hear it and thing noting of it. Others shutter at the name. But everyone has questions about it, whether hell is real or a fable, eternal or temporary, physical or spiritual. Being in the Baptist community since birth, I have believed in a hell since I can remember because “to believe in God and not in hell is ultimately to disbelieve in the reality of human choices.” (Ross Douthat). My definition of hell comes straight from the Bible. That there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Mathew 13:42) and that God will say, “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil

The righteous who did good deeds will be sent to Jannah (Paradise). Allah can choose to punish who he wishes by sending them to Jahannam (Hell).

Some follow a very traditional belief that heaven is a wonderful garden paradise where they will live for ever with God and Jesus. These people often believe that hell is a real place where people will suffer eternal