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What is the concept of Heaven and Hell?
Many Christians believe that all souls will be judged by God. Those who are judged as worthy will have a place in Heaven, but those who are judged as being full of sin will go to Hell.
Is Heaven a state of mind or a place?
Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is a concept or idea or a thought that is placed in the mind of someone as a result of reading a religious book or by religious instruction from someone else. So if you are asking if Heaven is real, the answer is no. Heaven is not a state of mind or a real place.
What is difference between Heaven and Hell?
Generally religions agree on the concept of Heaven as pertaining to some type of peaceful life after death related to the immortality of the soul. Heaven is generally construed as a place of happiness, sometimes eternal happiness. Hell is often portrayed populated with demons, who torment the damned.
What do we mean by the ideas of Heaven and Hell?
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. Even the non-religious can perhaps agree that, for whatever reason, we humans begin our earthly lives with many imperfections and with no (conscious) awareness of God.
Are Heaven and Hell desired compensations for earthly lives?
According to a relatively common view in the wider Christian culture, heaven and hell are essentially deserved compensations for the kind of earthly lives we live.
What are the different views about Hell?
The views about hell in particular include very different conceptions of divine love, divine justice, and divine grace, very different ideas about free will and its role (if any) in determining a person’s ultimate destiny, very different understandings of moral evil and the purpose of punishment,…
Are all sinners equal objects of God’s redemptive love?
All human sinners are equal objects of God’s redemptive love in the sense that God wills or aims to win over each one of them over time and thereby to prepare each one of them for the bliss of union with the divine nature.