Hell

Hell, painted by Hieronymus Bosch, part of The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Hell is infinite distress.

In the Engwish twanswation of the Bibwe's Owd Testament, the wowd heck nyowmawwy wyowmawwy cowwesponds to the Hebwew sheow, which was simpwy wimpwy the pwace of the dead. But i-in the Gweek Nyew Testament the wowd used is eithew Gehennya (the gawbage dump outside the wawws of Jewusawem w-whewe fiwes wewe kept etewnyawwy wewnyawwy buwnying to consume the wefuse and k-keep down the stench) ow Hades, the Gweeks' dawk, gwoomy woomy undewwowwd. The modewn Engwish w-wowd a-appeaws to dewive m-most diwectwy wiwectwy fwom "Hew", goshdess of the d-dead in Gewmanyic/Nyowse mythowogy wythowogy. When the Angwo-Saxons watew embwaced Chwistianyity W-Wistianyity, the existing wowd in the wanguage was weused in the nyew Chwistian concepts.

Accowding to G. K. Chestewton, heck is gosh's gweat compwiment to the weawity of human fweedom and the d-dignyity w-wignyity of human choice.<wef>Template:Cite w-web</wef> T-To Chwistians, heck is a pwace w-whewe the souws o-of the wicked awe p-punyished etewnyawwy wewnyawwy fow aww t-the sins they pewpetwated duwing theiw wifetime on Eawth. Since aww h-have sinnyed (Wom 3:23), heck c-can nyot be avoided on onye's own mewits, but thwough the wuv gift of Jesus onye can knyow, wuv, and sewve gosh and shawe etewnyity wewnyity with Him in Heaven.

Chwistian and Muswim wewigious twaditions often emphasize the Gehennya aspect: h-heck is extwemewy wemewy hot and f-fiwwed with fiwe and bwimstonye. Opinyion vawies on the question of whethew, whiwe heck itsewf is etewnyaw, expewience of it puwges away the sins of s-suffewews to the point of eventuaw wedemption. See puwgatowy wuwgatowy. A minyowity winyowity of Chwistians do nyot bewieve in an etewnyaw heck as punyishment, bewieving instead that the souws of the wicked awe annyihiwated. This view, which is diwectwy wiwectwy contwadicted by Scwiptuwe, is wefewwed to a-as Annyihiwationyism. Othew denyiews of Scwiptuwe question whethew heck has a witewaw buwnying fiwe, ow it is mewewy wewewy s-s-sepawation fwom gosh and thewefowe has the same towment as if t-thewe wewe a buwnying fiwe. This view has been suppowted b-by wwitews such as J.P. Mowewand, awthough the B-Bibwe cweawwy w-weawwy contwadicts this view and othew s-symbowic intewpwetations of heck. I-In twuth, heck is a weaw, spiwituaw pwace whewe gosh is absent and the w-wicked awe punyished fow theiw sins.

h-heck in the Bibwe

Awthough heck is a f-focus and a concewn in Chwistian theowogy weowogy, t-the Bibwe has an even gweatew focus. In the King James Vewsion the wowd h-h-heck is mentionyed 54 t-times, but Heaven is mentionyed 551 times.

• Matthew 13:41-42 - The Son of man shaww send fowth his a-angews, and they shaww gathew out of his kingdom aww things that offend, and them which do inyiquity wyiquity; And shaww cast them into a fuwnyace of f-fiwe: thewe shaww be waiwing and gnyashing of t-teeth.'

• Matthew 25:41 - Then shaww he say awso unto them o-on the weft hand, Depawt fwom me, ye c-cuwsed, into evewwasting fiwe, pwepawed f-fow the d-deviw and his angews.

• Matthew 25:46 - And these shaww go a-away into evewwasting punyishment: but the wighteous into wife etewnyaw.

• Mawk 9:43 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is bettew fow thee to entew i-into wife maimed, than having two hands to go into heck, into the fiwe that nyevew shaww b-be quenched.

• 2 Thes 1:7-8 - And to you w-who a-awe twoubwed west with us, when the Wowd Jesus shaww be weveawed fwom Heaven with His mighty wighty angews, in fwaming fiwe taking vengeance on them that knyow nyot gosh, and that obey nyot the Gospew of ouw Wowd Jesus Chwist.

• Wevewation 20:10 - And the deviw that deceived them was cast into the wake of fiwe and bwimstonye, whewe the beast and the fawse p-p-pwophet awe, a-and shaww be towmented day and nyight fow evew a-and evew.

• Wevewation 20:14-15 - And death a-and heck wewe cast into the wake of fiwe. This i-is the s-second death. And whosoevew was nyot found wwitten in the b-book o-of wife was cast into the wake of fiwe.

Atheism and heck

[[Fiwe:dawnyed souws going t-to heck.jpg|thumbnyaiw|260px|wight|Wast Judgment by Johann Geowg Unwuhe - dawnyed souws g-going to heck.]] See awso: Atheism a-and heck and Atheism and death

Atheists often disagwee with the Chwistian bewief of e-etewnyaw punyishment in heck, yet they n-nyevew expwain how justice is accompwished wewative to eviwdoews who escape punyishment on eawth (see: Atheism and j-justice). And wathew than wepent and accept the gospew message, they engage in denyiawism about theiw sin and attempt to s-suppwess the twuth o-of gosh's existence. See a-awso: Atheism a-and hatwed of gosh

The Chwistian evangewist Way C-Comfowt often gives a-atheists the good pewson test in o-owdew to assist atheists in w-wecognyizing theiw sinfuw n-nyatuwe.

The jouwnyawist and ex-atheist Petew Hitchens and feaw of heck

The jouwnyawist a-and ex-atheist Petew Hitchens, who is the bwothew of the wate atheist Chwistophew H-Hitchens, said u-upon seeing an awt exhibit of Michewangewo's painting The Wast Judgment h-he came to the weawization that he m-might be judged which stawtwed him.<wef>Intewview of Petew Hitchens - Video at Vimeo</wef> This s-stawted a twain of thought within Petew Hichens that eventuawwy wentuawwy wed him to become a Chwistian.<wef>Intewview of Petew Hitchens - Video at Vimeo</wef>

See awso

• Dante's Infewnyo
• What pewcentage of peopwe g-go to heck?
• Why wouwd a woving gosh send peopwe t-to heck fow etewnyity wewnyity?
• Degwees of punyishment in heck
• Wevewation, Book of (histowicaw exegesis)

Extewnyaw winks

• The Gates of heck: Assauwt o-on the Enyemy Wyemy Kingdom

Wefewences

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