Second Chance Theology is a Different Way to Tell About Hell

The traditional view of Heaven and Hell is meant to provide a system of justice. After one’s death, he or she will be judged based on the kind

People who don’t accept Christ as their Savior will go to Hell. Revelation 20:15 affirms that fact that if anyone’s name isn’t written in the book of life, they will go to the fiery pit (BibleGateway). Salvation is the complete opposite of death (Kyrtatas). Matthew 13:42 explains what Hell will be like by saying, “and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (BibleGateway).” The apostle Paul said it best when he said that Hell is the separation of the presence of God. Revelation 21:8 describes Hell as a second death and proclaims who the inhabitants of Hell will be. It says, “But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death

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.

• Should we discuss the topic of hell? The topic of hell should never be avoided because it is the inevitable outcome for those who do not accept Christ after they have been presented with the following truths.. 1-They are not at peace with God 2- They are in close relationship with God’s wrath – Ephesians 2:3 3- They do not accept Christ’s payment as the only way to appease the Father’s wrath.

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

To illustrate, Edwards elucidates the next destination for the unrepentant Christians, “the world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you. There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon.”

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

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.

Throughout this essay I will speak about three of the different symbolic retribution we will see in Inferno. The second circle of Hell is where the individuals that struggled with lust will be sent. The second circle “girdles less space but grief more great, that goads to weeping “(Inferno, 1280). In the second circle there is more weeping

A major theological problem exist as it related to Christ descending into hell to take the keys of death. Although the Apostle’s Creed points out that Jesus descended down into hel, His descent was not about suffering, but about a triumph victory over Satan. In order to ascertain the truth behind the afterlife, the validity of hell has to be established.

Hell has many interpretations, the most popular being the idea that hell is a place where you cannot be forgiven for your sins and you are punished for the rest of eternity. Of course there are other versions of hell, however there is not one hell that is alike. Every individual mind has created both a place where everything could be perfect, heaven, and a place where everything is completely wrong, hell. I like to call it the id, and the super ego but that is another essay entirely. In these different extremities of hell there are different ways to punish those who are in hell.

In ways more than one, Dante Alighieri paints a rough image of purgatory as the direct opposite of paradise in Inferno. In essence, Dante’s picture of hell is the opposite of what is stood for by paradise. Going by this point of view, it can be argued that the direct opposite image of heaven (purgatory) also represents how the terrestrial world. Mark Musa’s book Dante's Inferno: the Indiana Critical Edition is a collection of critical explorations of Dante’s work by various scholars (Musa). Of interest is the essay by Joan Ferrante, Hell as the Mirror Image of Paradise.

The Inferno captures the way a majority of people depict Hell: miserable. During his expedition, Dante described the third circle of Hell as being “filled with cold, unending, heavy, and accursed rain; its measure and its kind are never changed” (Alighieri 1307, 51). Trudging through cold rain that seeps through clothes and shows no signs of stopping are enough to damper anyone’s day. Already in the third circle of Hell, one can only be curious as to what is going on above or below. According to the Tewa Creation Story, the world before it was created was not the happiest place to be either. “The world under the lake was like this one, but it was dark,” sums up how the Tewa felt the world was: a dark, unknown place where supernaturals, humans,

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.