Hell certainly can't possibly exist, or else heaven could not exist. How could anybody possibly live in eternal bliss when they know some of their loved ones are being tortured for eternity?

And why would God deem it just to torture people indefinitely with no chance of forgiveness ever? How is it that God has totally forgotten the idea of forgiveness which he supposedly taught to mankind in the form of Jesus Christ? Having people tortured for all eternity is the most immoral possible action one can do, therefore God has to be the most immoral being in the entire universe if there really is a hell. Nobody deserves infinite punishment, for the simple reason that we can only commit a finite number of wrongdoings in the finite time we have on earth.

Why doesn't God punish Satan? Why does God allow Satan to enjoy whatever sick pleasure he gets from torturing people by tossing him all the sinful souls?

And, what are the criteria for going to hell as opposed to heaven? Where is the cutoff point? If a man is just beneath the cutoff point and gets hit by a bus just before he's about to do some grand noble deed, does he go to hell? And if he does the noble deed before getting hit by a bus, does he go to heaven? That makes no sense. To anybody with any experience in human society, it's obvious that there aren't two groups of people called "good people" and "evil people". There is a continuum between extremely good people and extremely evil people, with most people lying at various points between the two extremes. Any real system of justice would have to take this into account, dishing out reward and punishment in varying amounts depending on where the individual lies on that continuum.

Hell, obviously, is a primitive concept invented by ancient superstitious people who were struggling with two things: the existence of evil in a world they assumed to be ruled by an all-loving god, and the apparent lack of a karmic system of justice in our lives (good things happen to bad people and vice versa). It's safe to say we can dispose of this destructive idea in our modern, scientific society. And it's crucial to realizing that reward and punishment need to be made by human efforts here on earth if we want a world with any semblance of justice.
Oneironaut Reviewed by Oneironaut on . question about hell... i would like to learn more about what the bible/jesus says about hell? somethingā??s dont make sense to me but thats probably because i dont understand it. i guess god created it, cuz he made everything... satan was sent there to be punished? does he rule it now? if so why is he so mean to people like him? umm. share anything else that comes to mind Rating: 5