Do any of you still believe in 'Hellfire'? heh (page 6)

Mad Sweeney

I have not seen anyone on this board describe Hell better than Tom:

Just because it's well-written doesn't make it any less of a fairytale. And it is VERY well-written.

restrangled

Funny, even the Previous Pope declared it non-existant quite a few years ago, although it was barely covered in the news. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/755800/posts

No need to unleash the masses from their fear!

Please read the following:

No Physical Heaven/Hell ... says the Pope?
Toledo Blade ^ | Saturday, August 14, 1999 | JUDY TARJANYI

Posted on Monday, September 23, 2002 3:04:16 PM by Quester

Saturday, August 14, 1999

New ideas about heaven and hell are being suggested

By JUDY TARJANYI

Toledo Blade

A multitude of words about heaven and hell lies within the pages of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the writings of Christianity's church fathers. But when Pope John Paul II chose a few to elaborate on in two recent addresses, he made headlines, even though he was merely drawing on current church teaching in his descriptions of the afterlife.

"The Pope drastically lowered the temperature of hell," crowed a report from the British newspaper, The Guardian. An July 29 article from Reuters News Service said: "Forget the flames and the devils with pitchforks. A week after telling the Roman Catholic faithful that heaven was not up in the clouds, Pope John Paul II said yesterday that hell was not a physical place either."

ziddina

Hell

NO!!!!

Zid devil angel on a seesaw

White Dove

Souls would not be able to experience a physical thing, fire and worms, in a physical place unless the souls had physical bodies, which they don't because they were destroyed by decomposition in the past life. It doesn't say their bodies would burn, only their souls. Sorry, but hell as a physical place with real worms and fire is like the Land of Make Believe.

JWoods

Sorry, but hell as a physical place with real worms and fire is like the Land of Make Believe.

Paradise Earth Forever with fruit baskets and vegatarian Lions is also like the Land of Make Believe.

Chalam

If one believes in a place where the righteous go after death then it follows that the unrighteous do not go there and go to a different place.

Matthew 8:11-12 (New International Version)

11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Matthew 13:41-43 (New International Version)

41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

Revelation 22:14-15 (New International Version)

14 "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Blessings,

Stephen