Are we in Hell Right Now?

[Purple Knight]

Question for Debate: Is this Hell? Do people in Hell know they're in Hell?

[Miles]

Question for Debate: Is this Hell? Do people in Hell know they're in Hell?

They do. They do, because they lose all their clothes and their toes turn crispy.

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[Tcg]

Question for Debate: Is this Hell? Do people in Hell know they're in Hell?

Hell is supposedly some very unpleasant afterlife experience. Is this an afterlife? Obviously not. This is not hell unless you are referring to some metaphor for hell which isn't actually hell. In that case, sure, anything could be described as hell. However, not a real one of course.


Tcg

[Dimmesdale]

Question for Debate: Is this Hell? Do people in Hell know they're in Hell?

Pain versus misery perhaps?

Pain is here and now - OUCH!

Misery - that can be more of a slog, through the vagaries of time. More like boredom than anything else.

Perhaps we pick our own hells.

[JehovahsWitness]

Question for Debate: Is this Hell? Do people in Hell know they're in Hell?

There are probably as many descriptions of hell as people that believe i it. What do you mean by hell? If you mean are we dead ? And is our immortal soul being tortured in punishment for our sins while we were alive? No, I dont believe so. Mostly because I believe death is when one ceases to exist in any form and thus it would be impossible to cause a dead person any kind of pain or anguish.

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[1213]

Question for Debate: Is this Hell? Do people in Hell know they're in Hell?

By what i know, our body and soul are not yet destroyed, therefore I don’t think this is the hell.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. …
Matt. 10:28

[Purple Knight]

There are probably as many descriptions of hell as people that believe in it. What do you mean by hell? If you mean are we dead ? And is our immortal soul being tortured in punishment for our sins while we were alive? No, I don't believe so. Mostly because I believe death is when one ceases to exist in any form and thus it would be impossible to cause a dead person any kind of pain or anguish.

That's at least a good answer. I'm always glad when someone believes something because they think it's true and not because it brings them some sort of comfort, which must be the case if a religious person thinks it's possible to be atheist dead (annihilated).

In order to get the most broad stroke on Hell, specifically because of what you mention, would probably be something on the order of are we dead, are we those who failed, are we those who are being punished?

I'm not sure it would be simple physical pain. You'd get used to it. God would have to get creative to have a place of real, genuine, constant suffering. This is what bothers me about many cartoonish descriptions of Hell. Most of what they show wouldn't bother me if I knew I was already dead. One description in a silly Adult Swim show included people having their faces placed in toilets for others to urinate and defecate on. Yes, that's awful, but why is it awful? Because we can get a disease and we can die; that's why we get grossed out. If we're already dead what are the stakes? God would have to be far more creative than writers who can simply come up with something we think is horrible, and I would say this includes people who wrote that Hell was being burnt in fire. It strikes me that to really torture people, even if they're already dead and in soul form, they have to think they're not.

[tam]

Peace to you,

Question for Debate: Is this Hell? Do people in Hell know they're in Hell?

This is not hell (if by 'hell' you mean the world of the dead). People who are in "hell" are dead (often described as a sleep) and know nothing.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing.

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol*, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom



*Sheol, meaning hades, meaning 'hell' - the world of the dead.



Peace again.

[Diagoras]

This is not hell (if by 'hell' you mean the world of the dead). People who are in "hell" are dead (often described as a sleep) and know nothing.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing.

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol*, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom


*Sheol, meaning hades, meaning 'hell' - the world of the dead.

There's a much more detailed article here (with numerous biblical references):

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Sheol

The concept's changed markedly over time.

[Purple Knight]

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing.

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Boosh. Knowledge can't be known with certainty on this plane.