Is Hell just a fear-mongering, man-made concept?
Well for those of you that belive that HELL is just a fear-mongering, man-made concept. I’ll say this to you whilst you are dead/alive on this earth, as you probably won’t want to consult the word of God on this one and may only get to find out after you leave this planet, unless…Any how In Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of hell and in other verses: The rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.But Abraham said, Son, remember that in your lifetime you did receive the good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can
All religions and religious cultures – even Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shinto – believe in the reality of Hell – or at least *a* hell, as well as a heaven. With reincarnation-oriented religions, it just takes you several incarnations to get to one or the other, but once you do, you stop re-incarnating. What this means is that all societies have believed in some kind of ultimate justice — that evil will not prosper forever, nor will good go unrewarded. As this clearly does not happen on this side of the grave, it is necessary to postulate an afterlife that puts things back into balance. But the preaching of ultimate justice is not “fear-mongering”. Moreover, it is not a means for the strong to control the weak. If anything, it is a means for the weak to control the strong. A man with enough wealth, power, status, glamour, connections, charisma, brains, and good-looks can get away with just about anything in this world, including repeatedly victimizing the poor and defenseless … and even
