FOUR TRUTHS ABOUT HELL, and more faq
Q: WILL the wicked will burn forever and ever. Are the wicked immortal. Will Only the righteous receive immortality? Is Hell forever with God's Wrath?
Well let's look some of what God has told us. And then dive deeper into understanding it.
“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” (Matthew 25:41)
“And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.” (Matthew 25:46)
“And if [you sin], cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life than to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.. For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.” (Mark 9:43-49)
the Lord knows how to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, (2 Peter 2:9)
For God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment (2 Peter 2:4). This verse tells us several things. Pay attention.
The wicked, their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. (2 Peter 2:1-3)
We have to understand that there is a temporary place (a holding cell) currently called Hell, where people are kept until Judgment Day, where they recieve their new body, then they move to the permanent location called the Eternal Lake of Fire.
“And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.” (Luke 16:23)
“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:15)
“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Revelation 20:10)
Hell is a real place with a wrath filled torment that burns forever, and the people in it are there for eternity
* To get a deeper understanding of Eternal Hell: Research further see below....
God warns about Hell and tells us through the gospel of Jesus how to be saved from our sins and God's wrath. Don't go to Hell.
“Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:22
"The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance" 2 Peter 3:9
"and with all the deception of unrighteousness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved" - 2 Thessalonians 2:10
4 Truths About Hell
“There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell.” So wrote the agnostic British philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1967. The idea of eternal punishment for sin, he further notes, is “a doctrine that put cruelty in the world and gave the world generations of cruel torture.”
His views are at least more consistent than religious philosopher John Hick, who refers to hell as a “grim fantasy” that is not only “morally revolting” but also “a serious perversion of the Christian Gospel.” Worse yet was theologian Clark Pinnock who, despite having regarded himself as an evangelical, dismissed hell with a rhetorical question: “How can one imagine for a moment that the God who gave His Son to die for sinners because of His great love for them would install a torture chamber somewhere in the new creation in order to subject those who reject Him to everlasting pain?”
So, what should we think of hell? Is the idea of it really responsible for all the cruelty and torture in the world? Is the doctrine of hell incompatible with the way of Jesus Christ? Hardly. In fact, the most prolific teacher of hell in the Bible is Jesus, and He spoke more about it than He did about heaven. In Matthew 25:41–46 He teaches us four truths about hell that should cause us to grieve over the prospect of anyone experiencing its horrors.
1. Hell is a state of separation from God.
On the day of judgment, Jesus will say to all unbelievers, “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire” (v. 41). This is the same sort of language that Jesus uses elsewhere to describe the final judgment of unbelievers (see 7:23).
To be separated from God is to be separated from anything and everything good. That is hard to conceive because even the most miserable person enjoys some of God’s blessings. We breathe His air, are nourished by food that He supplies, and experience many other aspects of His common grace.
On earth even atheists enjoy the benefits of God’s goodness. But in hell, these blessings will be nonexistent. Those consigned there will remember God’s goodness, and will even have some awareness of the unending pleasures of heaven, but they will have no access to them.
This does not mean that God will be completely absent from hell. He is and will remain omnipresent (Ps. 139:7-8). To be separated from the Lord and cast into hell does not mean that a person will finally be free of God. That person will remain eternally accountable to Him. He will remain Lord over the person’s existence. But in hell, a person will be forever separated from God in His kindness, mercy, grace, and goodness. He will be consigned to deal with Him in His holy wrath.
2. Hell is a state of association.
Jesus says that the eternal fire of hell was “prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41). People were made for God. Hell was made for the Devil. Yet people who die in their sin, without Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, will spend eternity in hell with the one being who is most unlike God. It is a tragic irony that many who do not believe in the Devil in this life will wind up spending eternity being tormented with him in hell.
3. Hell is a state of punishment.
Jesus describes it as “fire” (v. 41) and a place of “punishment” (v. 46). Hell is a place of retribution where justice is served through the payment for crimes.
The punishment must fit the crime. The misery and torment of hell point to the wickedness and seriousness of sin. Those who protest the biblical doctrine of hell as being excessive betray their inadequate comprehension of the sinfulness of sin. For sinners to be consigned to anything less than the horrors of eternal punishment would be a miscarriage of justice.
4. Hell is an everlasting state.
Though some would like to shorten the duration of this state, Jesus’ words are very clear. He uses the same adjective to describe both punishment and life in verse 46. If hell is not eternal, neither is the new heaven and earth.
How can God exact infinite punishment for a finite sin? First, because the person against whom all sin is committed is infinite. Crimes against the infinitely holy, infinitely kind, infinitely good, and infinitely supreme Ruler of the world deserve unending punishment. In addition to that, those condemned to hell will go on sinning for eternity. There is no repentance in hell. So the punishment will continue. Sin will continue also (in their emotions and thoughts).
The dreadfulness of hell deepens our grateful praise for the salvation we have in Jesus Christ. Hell is what we deserve. And hell is what He experienced on the cross in our place, he took the eternal wrath of God (for the sins of every believer), to pay each of their debt to God. He is the redeemer, who redeems.
Believing the truth about hell also motivates us to get saved, but also compels us to persuade people to be reconciled to God. By God’s grace those of us who are trusting Christ have been rescued from that horrible destiny. We must share the gospel; how can we "love" people and refuse to speak plainly to them about the realities of eternal damnation and God’s gracious provision of salvation?
The clear visions of Hell will give us greater love for both God and people... and we will run out to try and save many from the flames.
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Body related Questions
Humans were made in God's image. He also designed us as one unit with a body, soul and Spirit. We were made eternal beings. Just as believers will recieve their eternal body, so too God will give unbelievers an eternal body fit for everlasting Hell.
Prior to being put into the eternal lake of fire, the temporary existence of the person (held in Hell) has similarities to the human body, but a new body will be given for eternal Hell; no good thing is there so no seeing. It is outer darkness so you couldnt see anyway. But you will have a mind, which will be in torment and agony. Where even the realization of what you rejected in Christ haunts every moment of eternity, and likely all the sins you committed, lies, actions, deeds etc that affected others and those associated with them, even generational, like Adam's sin affected the rest of us. It will be immense, besides the eternal wrath of God poured out on you non stop for eternity.
> Don't choose Hell over love, peace and freedom in Christ and blessings of Heaven.
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