What Kind Of Place Is Hell?

[White Knight]

Heaven and Hell are beyond human comprehention, we can't vathome the terrors of Hell, nor can we even comdemnplate the Perfection and Happiness in Heaven.



We wont have the answers to these questions until we get to them, one place or another.

[Theoketos]

Can you create nothing? If hell is the absence of God's presence, I would say that is was not created, even if the accuser was thrown there.

[White Knight]

My question is, if The Lord is everywhere at once, and Hell is suspost to be a place where you suffer for your sins you committed here on Earth, and your suspost to be Absent of the LORD's presence, how does that stand with the everywhere at once thing?


I believe Hes everywhere at once, including Hell, because if he wasn't that would contradict his ownself.

[Tony]

According to JP2, Hell is actually a state and not a place. Same for Heaven and Purgatory

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[jasJis]

I don't believe Hell is a physically hot place. I think that that is used as an allegory to describe the incredible and all-encompasing spiritual suffering that we would endure.

[Hananiah]

[quote name='Tony' date='Aug 30 2004, 03:49 AM'] According to JP2, Hell is actually a state and not a place. Same for Heaven and Purgatory

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It is certainly true that "Incorporeal things are not in place after a manner known and familiar to us, in which way we say that bodies are properly in place; but they are in place after a manner befitting spiritual substances, a manner that cannot be fully manifest to us." However, heaven must be in some sense a physical place because Jesus and Mary are both there in their physical bodies. And after the general resurrection heaven and hell will both be full of physical bodies.