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Where would they go
Lets say there was this Jewish person (I only picked Jewish because its not Christian), and they lived their lives in peace and harmony, they just weren't Christian. I know they don't go to heaven because they had the chance to come and didn't, but do they get tortured like the murderers and robbers, rapers, ect., ect.? I know this is a hard question but I've been thinking about it for a long time.
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well, i think if there are different levels in heaven, there is probably different levels in hell, so even if some might go to hell, they arent all suffering at the same level as thieves...etc
I'm sure that our God is a fair and just God, we dont know how He will judge each and everyone of us its up to Him, but we know that the Bible says "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." John 3:5
So, I think we shouldnt worry about the Jews or the muslims or whoever else, because we might end up in the same place :(, i mean just worry about ourselves.
Lets worry about ourselves and actions before we think of where others will end up. This actually is a paranoia of mine, that we (“we” being the Coptic Orthodox children) are more concerned with other religions, and where they will end up, etc etc and are negligent on our own faith. Our Coptic Orthodox Church is so beautiful and filled with things that if we only took the time to understand and learn we would be living a heavenly life on earth.
But here are some questions I will pose for thought to anyone who asks and wonders about the after life:
-What is Hell?
-What is torture?
-Is hell, Satan sitting on a chair of fire and watching tormented souls jumping up and down due to pain?
-And if so, what is pain?
-Is the Pain going to be physical or spiritual?
-When we die its our bodily flesh that dies and not our souls, so doesn’t that mean that we will not have any bodily/physical pain?
-Are we looking at death in a secular way?
-Finally isn’t the worst pain, knowing and being apart from Our Father who loves us so dearly for all of eternity, and is that the “real hell”?
I certainly do not know all the answers to my questions and I apologize if I sounded pompous (that was not my intention), but I just wanted people to get site of what their priorities are and what they should fear more. Being in hell do to pain, or being in hell because we will be apart from God?
In His Name
Just a question related to that...it might kinda sound stupid thou...but is satan one soul...or one person or what is really the nature of satan ???
God bless
Peter
I think the most sever torture a Christian would have is the separation from God. This is the definition of hell, because what a christian is waiting, after his/her sojourn in earth, is the bosom of the Lord Jesus Christ. If he/she won't have that, this is the hell.
This is what joyisgod had properly said.
Of course there is a definite place called hell but it is better for us to talk about the place where we will be with the Lord all eternity.
I think it means that without our good Shepard we will not only get lost in the darkness but will get hurt (physically.) How can we see the harms on the ground when we are in the dark (seperation from God,) we will get harmed. Seperation from God entails pain, suffering (in my opinion both spiritual and physical, this makes more sense to me becauseif the pain was only spiritual, what pain would there be for the prideful. Plus when Adam and Eve became seperated from God their came physical pain, i.e. childbirth, toiling to produce food (farming), animals that weren't under their any more, etc.)
Just some thoughts.