What do you believe is Hell? A place of darkness? A place of fire? Or a place of separation from God? Define the meanings of those three. Please be concise and clear. Bonus question: If it is a place of fire how can it also be a place of darkness? Fire lights things up. I am not making fun. Just trying to find out your thought.
I believe what Delusion Crusher 10,000,000,000,001 is talking about is something maybe along the lines of what witnesses would consider tatarus, a form of existence with the discomfort that guilt, regret that judgment brings. Not my answer though. We were all as good as dead from the moment adam sinned. so in effect we are already damned if we go without a redeemer. Or what I like to jokingly call a recycler. So we are already well on our way to sheol from birth. But revelation 20 : 14 makes it quite clear that , whatever hades sheol are thought to be by anybody, they will be hurled into the 2nd death. So even if hades was hellfire,..it can't be non stop when it's ultimately annihilated.
Obviously none of the answers on here are going to be definite. No one here has been to hell. I believe hell is not a physical place. It is spiritual. My grandfather told me he thinks hell is simply a place where you are alone for eternity. I agree with that version. I don't know what the landscape would be. It might be outside of space and time like heaven.
It is a state of eternal separation from God. It will be spiritually bankrupt, hence the darkness. The fire is the fire of judgment. All the fake goodness will be burned off, and everyone will be burning up--tormented--with guilt and sorrow for not repenting. These are from the Bible, not my thoughts.
The Bible calls it a lake of fire. Jesus Christ himself called it a place of fire and brimstone. Yes, I do believe that it is a literal, physical place, where the souls of unsaved men will burn forever. And about the darkness. Scientists have theorized that after a certain temperature, fire burns black. Of course, we cannot produce these conditions, but it is highly possible. If anything else, God said it would be a place of fire and darkness, therefore, He will make it happen, even if we cannot fully comprehend it.
Hell is referred to as the bottomless pit. Throughout the Old Testament the earth would open and people would fall down into it. The centre of the earth is from where, all directions are 'up'. There is no bottom. it is bottomless literally. As for your bonus question: If it is a place of fire how can it also be a place of darkness? We are talking about the supernatural here, so no bonus for you bonus question.
