Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. Can people in heaven look down and see those of us who are still on the earth? The ideas of heaven and hell are also closely associated with the religious idea of salvation, which in turn rests upon a theological interpretation of the human condition. Naraka (Sanskrit: नरक) is the Hindu equivalent of Hell, where sinners are tormented after death. First, God created His heaven. Neither do they mention the creation of the angelic beings. It is also the abode of Yama, the god of Death.It is described as located in the south of the universe and beneath the earth. Comfort and belief in the existence of heaven, but rejection of the existence of hell can be blamed on inaccurate assumptions about what hell is. The fact is that Jesus spoke three times more often about hell than He ever did about heaven. Key Passages About Hell (1) Hell was designed originally for Satan and his demons (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10). This is recorded in Genesis 1:1. Yes, hell is a literal place and it is not a figment of our imagination. God’s loving and fiery presence either causes us to withdraw within ourselves or to reach out and be consumed and healed. Is hell real? Does hell exist? Is annihilationism biblical? Is hell eternal? Does heaven exist? (3) Heaven or hell is determined by whether a person believes (puts their trust) in Christ alone to save them (John 3:16, 36, etc.). What is Heaven like? The six days of creation do not mention the creation of God's heaven or the creation of hell. According to Express UK, John Shelby Spong, who is a retired bishop of … A retired bishop has controversially claimed that life after death in heaven and eternal damnation in hell are scare tactics invented by Church in a bid to control the masses. The number and names of hells, as well as the type of sinners sent to a particular hell, varies from text to text; however, many scriptures describe 28 hells. 5. Jesus vividly describes hell as: A place of unquenchable fire (Mark 9:43, 48). So, in that sense, we can say Hell is a “place.” In fact, we could say the same of heaven. But both heaven and hell are not “places” in the sense that the people there could “leave” and “return.” Inasmuch as these are states of being, “heaven” and “hell” are present wherever the saints and damned are. Are there different levels of heaven? The early Hindus never believed in heaven and never prayed to attain a permanent place there. Are books such as 90 minutes in Heaven and 23 minutes in Hell biblically based? These percentages are little changed from 2007, when Pew Research Center’s first Religious Landscape Study found that 74% of Americans believed in heaven, and 59% believed in hell. An actual place where both body and soul go (Matt 10:28). The saying is from John Milton’s book Paradise Lost - Book II and says that it is better to rule over - be like a king in hell than to serve somebody as a slave in heaven. Back to Nature . Here is my belief concerning the creation of these things. The earliest conception of an "afterlife," say, Vedic scholars, was the belief that the dead reunite with Mother Nature and live in some other form on this earth-- just as Wordsworth wrote, "with rocks and stones and trees. Is Heaven real? A place of unending torment (Luke 16:23). Among religiously affiliated Americans, the belief that there is a heaven is even more widespread, with 82% holding this view, about the same as in 2007. “Hell In Heaven” (stylized as HELL IN HEAVEN) is the 2nd track in TWICE’s 2nd full album “Eyes wide open”. Heaven and hell are not understood as physical places in which we are sentenced for all eternity, but an actual state of being when we encounter the Almighty God of Consuming Fire. 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