What would the point of Hell be?
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My sentiments exactly!
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I agree! Live for now and chill with the other awesome people in hell. Even if I believed in gods, that would be my philosophy.
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Hell will be darkness and the knowledge that you are separated from God forever and that you screwed up big time.  It isn't a big party where you will plenty of company to complain about how unfair God was.  You will be totally alone for eternity.
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The bible says everyone deserves hell.\n\nBut understand Hell in the bible is the common grave of mankind.\n\nThe punishment for sin is death,  not torment.\n\nThe reward for faith is life.
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I don't believe there is a hell.  Why would a supreme being have petty emmotions like venegence?  What use would there be?  He wants us to learn from mistakes, and he forgives...so why a hell?  It's a bit harsh.
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Hell isn't a place, and neither is heaven.  Imagine a "god" so cruel that he would condemn people to hell forever just for not understanding or knowing him or for being misled into the "wrong" religion.\n\nOr think about it from a physical point of view.  By physics principles, the universe is slowly running down.  Hell couldn't burn forever.\n\nReligion is there to comfort people.  It shouldn't be taken literally because it has no foundation in reality.
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THERE IS NO POINT IN LIVING. That's right, there is no meaning, no aim, and it doesn't end with death. When you die, you won't go to heaven, nor to hell, but you will be born again, instantly. And not to a different life, but to this self-same life, equally aim- and meaningless. There is no escape. The only thing that can justify your life is JOY (the feeling of power).\n\nEDIT:\n\nWhen I wrote the above, I did not know that you were only 12. I was a bit irritated by your question, but perhaps this was by something I read into it. The thing is that I am fed up with people who use the implications of an idea - for instance, that it berefts life of meaning, or that it undermines morality - against the idea itself, e.g., "it must be false, because otherwise life would have no meaning", or "because otherwise there would be no responsibility". These are emotional arguments - arguments that apply to one's "humaneness". But I have repudiated humaneness. - Man is something that must be overcome.\n\nEDIT 2:\n\nAs for the procreation question, I tend to symbolise this with the Indian reincarnation theory. Procreation is reincarnation in the literal sense, as the parents' genes "become flesh again" (this is the literal meaning of "reincarnation") in their child(ren). This is rebirth in the literal sense. In India, however, the goal of such rebirths is to eventually produce a child who does not need to procreate because it is self-realised: "What is the point of offspring to him whose soul is the world?" This child, who is the goal of the reincarnation process, does not, like his ancestors, posit the goal of his life *beyond* himself; his goal is the joyful affirmation of himself, and thereby, of existence itself. He is the link that justifies the whole chain. I believe that Jesus - the real, historical Jesus, who I believe was Julius Caesar - was such a justification of existence. This is, I believe, the psychological reason why he was posited as a *goal* for other people to strive for: so that they could, eventually, in the course of many generations, produce a child who would likewise justify existence.
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As children we envision a devil who sits among the flames and sticks our burning body with his pitchfork.  We think we are hurting so badly from the constant burning that is neverending.  That's enough to make a child at least try to keep the Ten Commandments.  \n\nWhen we grow up, we can hardly believe in that concept anymore as we believe God has a plan for "hell" and the way it will be.  I have no idea about what hell is going to be like.  Some people say we are living it.  If we didn't believe there was a punishment for unrelenting evil people, there would probably be more because there is nothing to dying and just not exist anymore.
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So what's the point here?
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You must first get the answer to the question, is there a hell? Luckily that is answered here:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AmJd2LPA9anhkbKUGFDEeugjzKIX?qid=1006032005766
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To follow God and try to follow his instructions (the bible) to get to heaven. Thats what I know. The point of living on earth is to bring others to Christ so they can come to heaven with you! :)
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There is only one hell. The bible tells us that God wishes that none of us would perish.
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Most people think that living on earth is a form of hell.  It depends on the individual who believes in heaven or hell because they must exist in order to create a balance in the universe.
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We have to trust in God. He knows what He's doing, even if His reasons are not immediately obvious to us.\n\nHopefully, hell exists, and all the evil people will go there after death to pay for all their crimes, while good people will be rewarded in heaven.
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I would still try to do good.  It is not really about heaven or hell.  It is about loving God and people.  If that sends me to hell, then I am there!!!!
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nothing that is the answer\nnothing is better than god, nothing is worse than the devil, and if you eat nothing you will die.
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no\n\n"hell" is a mistranslation. it always means the "grave", biblically anyway. there is a lake of fire referred to. In it, evil people will be destroyed, not eternally tormented.\n\nheaven is a temporary dwelling until such time as God sets up paradise on earth, as recorded in the book of revelations. we will live together in paradise with Jesus and God will dwell among us.