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[MorleyDev]

Eh, hell doesn't sound so bad. At least it's assumed to have heating, and all the cool people go there in a sense.

Warning: Not trying to start a debate, just random bible-related response to do with hell's portrayal, which is arguably quite varied from book to book. I have not read all of the bible, just some of it, and am an atheist. I can read something I don't agree with, and regularly do with books of philosophy and the like.

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Well I guess it depends on the hypothetical hell. The Bible isn't exactly consistent enough (or at least, not un-obscure enough) to truly say. Some passages even suggest there is no after life such as this one from the old testament:
"For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

What is interesting about the book of Ecclesiastes is that you could actually remove all the references to God and not only would a lot of the book read exactly the same, but you'd also basically have a pretty detailed philosophical essay on Exisentialism, similar to but thousands of years before the works of Nietzche.

Others paint hell as simply a life without "god's love"...which is basically the world as it is anyway according to anybody who isn't Christian, so...yeeeah.

Then you of course have the lake of fire..., which is the most common image conjured up in western society when we think of 'hell'.

Others that hell is just cessation of existence but heaven isn't...

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At least we can safely right Lovecraft's work off as fiction We'd need God to help us if Cthulhu ever awoke, and I doubt the blind and dump Azathoth would be of much help ^^

[lemon10]

We'd need God to help us if Cthulhu ever awoke, and I doubt the blind and dump Azathoth would be of much help ^^

I doubt god would be either if he was the type of being to let Cthulu awaken.

[Cheese]

Does it even describe Hell in the Bible?

[MorleyDev]

Now that I think about it, the Norse Ragnarök sounds pretty awesome. What with the giant wolf devouring the sun and all...

[lemon10]

Does it even describe Hell in the Bible?

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But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

43And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
 44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
 45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
 46Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
 47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
 48Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
 49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Those quotes seem to be pretty straightforward in saying that hell is a place of eternal torment (and fire), but some modern christians think that its simply a place where you are cut off from god.
Question: If god isn't present in hell, how can he be called omnipresent?