03-29-2011, 07:53 PM
The thing is that you can't take the bible literally word for word. You have to interpret it.
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christian_beliefs#Nature_of_hell
Nobody in the Christian Church (atleast not Roman-Catholic) preaches about hell as a place of suffering and agony.
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christian_beliefs#Nature_of_hell
Quote:Pope John Paul II stated that in speaking of hell as a place the Bible uses "a symbolic language", which "must be correctly interpreted … Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God"
Nobody in the Christian Church (atleast not Roman-Catholic) preaches about hell as a place of suffering and agony.