How exactly do the flames of hell burn and torment a dead spirit?

Its figurative...

Christians don't know how to apply allegory. They MUST take everything literal, because if they don't their whole system of beliefs start to crumble.

Er I don't think so. BACK FROM THE DEAD?... [link to www.chick.com (secure)]

Well, I'm a christian and I know EXACTLY what figurative means.

Then tell me what the flames of hell represent and I'll show you how fos you are.

Read the thread in my signature. But read stating an opinion, deal?

Yep, you're a bona fide idiot dog there Fido.

Hmmm, very enlightening argument. Really deep and intelligent.

flames have the ability to constrain/bind the spirit\soul.
being restricted or bound for an eternity and being unable to be free oneself of ones destructive cycles is torment.

is it literal or is it a metaphor? truth is real on all levels of conscious/awareness.

we are sentient creatures.

ANSWER:

Oil is organic.......when our cars burn it....it passes on to hell.

Since it came from dinosaurs and we all know those are a satanic God-believing test put here by Satan, the fuel for the lake of fire is simply going home as we use it all up here on earth.

And as we all know.....spirit gas + spirit bad people is a bad mix.

The lake of fire was actually an accident....Hell used to be a fun place until ONE retard demon sparked up a joint of spirit weed too close to the dino-sludge ponds way back in the day.

Last Edited by Dace on 10/04/2013 02:26 PM

Where in the Bible do you get this? If you can't find it in Scripture then it's only your opinion and not Christian Dog-ma.

I want to believe you are trolling/kidding.

My own view was that roman purgatory became hell when those fat assholes lit a smoke close to one of their fat assholes.

You really are a dim bulb aren't you kid

well....what kind of question is OP's?.....let me just run on down to hell and ask.....or maybe I can check twitter or google it...

we might as well be debating what god likes for lunch.
....I vote Turkey and cheese sammitches.

it's a matter of Faith.

you have to have Faith that you will burn in Hell if you don't do what yer told.

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Interesting thread in sig so far.

Hell is a complete disconnection from God..

See...only another retard likes it.

And how exactly can God not be somewhere? Idiot.

This isn't my favorite subject, but it should be said. Eternity without God is the worst experience anyone can experience. It was NOT created for people. Its not where you belong, however, if you reject God..when is the ultimate rejection of life--thats all there is. Even if there wasn't a hell with eternal fires..there might as well be, since..any existence without God..is just as good or more than the worst imaginable.

God doesn't send you to hell. Its a choice..just like everything else. If you're drowning..and I throw you a life preserver..and you refuse to take it..I didn't drown you. You did.

I'm sorry. I hate this subject because its painful..but..

it is what it is.

Did you read it? have an opinion on it? too weak minded to understand it? whats your thoughts?

Again, idiot, how does one escape God?

I don't read a wall of text when I know it comes from a Christian first of all. Christians are idiots. Second, when I skim it and see the gist of it that anti christ is a computer, that also confirms that he's an idiot. And third, when YOU defend it, that clinches the deal that he's an idiot.

The use of the words hell, eternal torment, judgment,
Kingdom of God,,,etc. are all figurative, since they
refer to abstract concepts.

You can see, touch, or measure things of the senses, but
abstractions aren't experienced directly.

You see red objects, but you don't see redness.

Also, it is a mystery how the physical world is registered
by the psyche. We aren't robots, so feeling things in the
sense of a psychic experience is fully possible; dreams
are a good example...

it's too difficult to get into an explanation
that would be 5 pages long
and rambling
make no sense to anyone but me
only half describe it
and also be half wrong
can't pin it down in a simple statement
ask Jesus to show you

sometimes there is a giant (size of a mountain) 5 eyed monster that breathes the fire like a dragon
other times it's more like a paradox that burns your spirit
sometimes it's being cast as victims
sometimes like taking others punishments
and sometimes
if your lucky
you get to go be burned as someone that did a boo-boo to you
knowing they will inevitably end up at that point in time and be the one to feel it too
just for the satisfaction of knowing the job has been done

I didn't defend it, I said it was interesting. and then I asked you if you read it. and you haven't, so your comment is invalid.

I don't want mumbo jumbo, I want someone with a brain and someone to give me scripture to tell me how hell fire burns fucking dead people.

get your head out of your ass or bong hole.

You're an idiot who thinks it's interesting. Hence it's idiotic, idiot.