Why is fire the typical symbol for hell? What's wrong with fire and burning (even if it's just a "burning of the conscience"?
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It's pretty damned painful. But yeah, I think testicles nailed to a wall would make a better symbol.
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Perhaps in the days that the Bible (or its precursor stories), other forms of pain (stabbing, compound fractures, etc.) would quickly get infected and kill the suffer. In contrast, burn wounds are cauterized, so the recipient gets to suffer that much longer.
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Our modern image of hell has no theological basis. It comes from Dante's Divine Comedy, which created the idea of hell as a place of fire and torment. Before that book, the church defined hell as a place of literal nothingness. No people, no ground, no sky, no nothing. If you ask me, any time at all in nothingness would be worse than an eternity of fire and brimstone. The pendulum has actually began to swing back towards the pre-Dante vision, truthfully. Several churches have apparently redefined hell into nothingness again.
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Ice is also used to describe hell. It's supposed to signify the most painful experience imaginable
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Heaven and hell(as well as the whole concept of god)were fabricated by human minds to better explain to people, that couldn't use their own minds, what would happen to them after death. There's a reason why heaven takes place in clouds up in the sky as well. It's all tangible things here in the real world. Fire equals pain, clouds and sky equals pleasantness.
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Cause the Bible says it is fire and brimstone,also the lake of fire.In the book of Luke it says the rich man lifted his eyes in torment,and he says for i am tormented in this flame.
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Fire isn't a "symbol" of hell (Lake Of Fire), it is a reality of hell. Hell is described throughout Scripture as “eternal fire” (Matthew 25:41), “unquenchable fire” (Matthew 3:12), “shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2), a place where “the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:44-49), a place of “torment” and “fire” (Luke 16:23-24), “everlasting destruction” (2 Thessalonians 1:9), a place where “the smoke of torment rises forever and ever” (Revelation 14:10-11), and a “lake of burning sulfur” where the wicked are “tormented day and night forever and ever” (Revelation 20:10).
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Umm... It hurts?
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burning is good enough for me
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