Hell Vs Contradiction

eternal punishment. These newer books perceive hell as more of a concept than an actual place of punishment.

    Hell is said to be the worst place to ever exist, and it is greatly feared about on earth and in the minds of people. “Hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up,” this illustrates personification in giving the flames of hell the live ability to hold and swallow us. It portrays how we will be consumed by our own sins if we do not act on them to better ourselves. If we let our sins pile up they will weigh us down and we will eventually be brought down to hell to pay for our wrong doings.

In this work he uses hell to scare people into believing that if you do something wrong that you will go to hell. This scared the people because most people didn't know better and they really thought hat was a place below the surface of the earth where one wold go spend eternity in a fire pit. He was saying that if you believe and repent you will be saved, but if not then you will burn.

puts fear in all those who do not follow the word of God by writing about hell and the punishment

“…All you that were never raised from being dead in sin…are in the hands of an angry God.” This sentence from Jonathan Edwards’ sermon paraphrases the whole thing. During his sermon, Edwards was persuading his audience of the church that their fate was chosen by God, based on their own actions. To persuade his audience to follow the laws of God, he created fear of Hell by using the techniques of imagery, compassion, and anger.

Robert Herrick, an English poet, once said, “Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.” Picture any type of Hell with relief, happiness, or even the smallest crack of a smile. There is no place. In fact, one can only think of the complete opposite, whether it is a Hell filled with neglect, pain, disgust, or a never-ending life of horror. This is the place created by Dante Alighieri; The Inferno is exactly the type of Hell where no person would want to be. Even those who acted upon the lightest of sins suffered greatly. While each realm contained a different sinner, the punishment that each were forced to face was cruel, repulsive, and sometimes rather disgusting. Through grieving tears without an

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.

“You see, it’s easy in Hell. You’ve only got to think of something, and there it is!” When I read this excerpt from the “The Great Divorce,” a classic and philosophical book that that takes its readers on a fantastic journey through the Afterlife, by C.S. Lewis, I thought for sure that my author was mistaken. It only took me a matter of pages to realize that I, myself, did not understand. Lewis shows his readers that the difference between Heaven and Hell isn’t idolized riches, but attitude and belief.

In Jonathan Edwards’ sermon, “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God”, he explains what will happen to a person who has wrongful actions. He continues to talk about Hell, forgiveness, and wickedness. God is angry, he abhors all sinners. No person wants to spend eternity in Hell. Edwards’ imagery is very disturbing.

In this excerpt from Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle’s Erasing Hell, what Jesus said about hell is discussed. It is noted that in the previous chapter it was made clear that the first century Jews would have believed in a place of punishment for the unrighteous men after they have been judged by God. It is, however, uncertain whether or not this was a place annihilation or a place of never ending punishment. Chan and Sprinkle point out that despite the expectation for Jesus to approach the topic of hell with compassion because of his compassionate approach to many of the harsh topics of the Pharisees, Jesus would have approached hell in the same way the people of his culture did. If he had believed differently he would have made a very clear point of it, as he did with other things.

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.

In the first place, Christians of the new and old age primarily believe that after death their souls live on in the grace of God's presence. For example, in the Bible it states, “Jesus said, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live even though he dies.”’ In Dante’s Inferno, Dante is shunned by God’s grace and is trying to find his way back. In the concluding lines of inferno; “...and beauteous shining of the Heavenly cars. And we walked out once more beneath the Stars” (Alighieri 287). These last words represent Dante climbing out of the nightmare he called Hell and he is gazing upon the beautiful stars of Heaven. Which represents a sense of hope as if his sins are forgiven. Heaven and hell in the Bible have a rather vague description of the details embedded in the experience you will face in the afterlife. All that is very well known and established is Heaven is a place of light and God's love and Hell is the land in which you experience eternal suffering for your sins. These loose interpretations of hell are greatly represented in Inferno because Dante takes these thoughts and roughly based Christian ideology of the after life into his own “Visions of Hell” Henceforth, the Christian faith and ideas are the base to many other religions. Dante’s Inferno a like Christianity has multiple representations of faith including an abundance of Christian Beliefs.

The concept of Hell or eternal suffering in the afterlife has been around for quite some time and plays an important role in the lives of many, even in the 21st century (what a shame?). It would be safe to assume that Hell is going to be around for some time and has a huge impact on how people live and

One of the other points Edwards included in the message was that everyone is judged by God when the time comes. He states that no matter how strong or wise a person is, they cannot escape Hell without repenting of their sins and asking God for

The idea of making up a "Hell", or inferno, is not an experience in which I, even in my wildest thoughts, had started to imagine. Call me an optimist, but the idea of imagining Hell never appealed to me. However, as I read through the Bible, I have come across many images of hell and will now attempt to create a partial picture.