Re: Did God create Hell?
Originally posted by King Kandy
Any bible quotes one way or another would help.No "God does not exist". I'm an Athiest, but I want this answered from a total Christian perspective.
BIBLE DICTIONARY - HellAn English translation of the Hebrew word Shoel, hell signifies an abode of departed spirits and corresponds to the Greek Hades. In common speech it generally denotes the place of torment for the wicked, although it has been often held, both in the Jewish and the Christian churches, that Hades (meaning broadly the place of all departed spirits) consists of two parts, paradise and Gehenna, one the abode of the righteous and the other of the disobedient. “Gehenna,” or “Gehenna of fire,” is the Greek equivalent of the “valley of Hinnom,” a deep glen of Jerusalem where the idolatrous Jews offered their children to Moloch (2 Chr. 28: 3; 2 Chr. 33: 6; Jer. 7: 31; Jer. 19: 2-6). It was afterwards used as a place for burning the refuse of the city (2 Kgs. 23: 10), and in that way became symbolical of the place of torment (Matt. 5: 22, 29-30; Matt. 10: 28; Matt. 18: 9; Matt. 23: 15, 33; Mark 9: 43, 45, 47; Luke 12: 5; James 3: 6). Expressions about “hell-fire” are probably due to the impression produced on men’s minds by the sight of this ceaseless burning, and are figurative of the torment of those who willfully disobey God.
On the other hand, the devil and his angels, including the sons of perdition, are assigned to a place spoken of as a lake of fire - a figure of eternal anguish. This condition is sometimes called hell in the scriptures (2 Pet. 2: 4). This kind of hell, which is after the resurrection and judgment, is exclusively for the devil and his angels, and is not the same as that consisting only of the period between death and resurrection. The one group are redeemed from hell and inherit some degree of glory. The other receive no glory. They continue in spiritual darkness. For them the conditions of hell remain.
Dependant on your perspective and what you meant by "hell", the answer is yes and no. God created an abode for the spirits of the departed. As to eternal anguish, did He create it? I am not sure, it would depend on if such was created or if it were a state that the creation could enter into. Did I create the broken state of the shattered vase, or was the shattering a separate concept from the creation of the vase?
Re: Re: Did God create Hell?
Originally posted by Regret
Dependant on your perspective and what you meant by "hell", the answer is yes and no. God created an abode for the spirits of the departed. As to eternal anguish, did He create it? I am not sure, it would depend on if such was created or if it were a state that the creation could enter into. Did I create the broken state of the shattered vase, or was the shattering a separate concept from the creation of the vase?
Originally posted by H. S. 6
So my question is, why did God create his own worst enemy? He's all-knowing, correct? So he should have known that Lucifer would betray him. And if God makes us like we are... why would he create someone who would betray him and attempt to lure us mortals into evil?
It's not real. It's only mythology.