| It depends on what you mean by 'hell'. If you're talking about
a place of eternal physical torture, then no. I believe the 'hell'
the Bible talks about in an absence of God. In fact, this is what I
believe Christ had come to save us from. John 3:16 says that God gave us
Jesus so that 'whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life'. Romans 6:23 says that the wages of sin is death. Death, not
hell or the lake of fire. Some Christians think that 'perishing' and 'death'
are metaphors for hell or the lake of fire, but perishing seems, to me, to
be something else altogether, a state of nonexistence. Revelation suggests,
at least to me, that those who are cast into the lake of fire are satan,
the false prophet, and their followers. Those are people who believe in God,
yet willingly turn against Him. This would not include people who have no
beliefs in God whatsoever. |