Why does someone go to Hell?

Esau said:
Horrible theology
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It’s not theology. It’s the well documented psychological effects of exercising free will in a certain way for an extended period of time, and its lasting—potentially eternal—effect on the human person.

I shouldn’t have to mention that there are supernatural exceptions, or provide a complete list of the exact evils that lead to hell.
 
Herr Flick said:
It’s not theology. It’s the well documented psychological effects of exercising free will in a certain way for an extended period of time, and its lasting—potentially eternal—effect on the human person.

I shouldn’t have to mention that there are supernatural exceptions, or provide a complete list of the exact evils that lead to hell.
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My problem wasn't your statement about sin and the wages thereof. Rather, it was about your implication regarding Justification.

Here's what John Bunyan had to say. He can explain it better than I can.
The Pilgrim's Progress said:
1. Thou believest with a fantastical faith; for this faith is nowhere described in the Word. 2. Thou believest with a false faith; because
it taketh Justification from the personal Righteousness of Christ, and applies it to thine own. 3. This faith maketh not Christ a
Justifier of thy person, but of thy actions; and of thy person for thy action's sake, which is false. 4. Therefore this faith is deceitful,
even such as will leave thee under wrath in the day of God Almighty. For true Justifying faith puts the soul, as sensible of its lost
condition by the Law, upon flying for refuge into Christ's Righteousness; (which Righteousness of his is not an act of obedience
accepted with God, but his personal obedience to the Law, in doing and suffering for us what that required at our hands). This
righteousness, I say, true faith accepteth; under the skirt which the soul being shrouded, and by it, presented as spotless before
God, it is accepted, and acquitted from condemnation.
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Esau said:
Was I not baptized into his death? Even so, should I not be raised up with Christ as a new man?

Did Christ not die for me?
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He died for all men, whether past, present, or future. It's a matter of believing upon His sacrifice with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength, while accepting its purpose in bringing salvation to the world. There will be those who don't accept, but such is their choice.
 
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They orientate themselves. Pay attention and you can easily spot those who already dwell in hell. Full of fear, envy, and wrath, lustful and avaricious, slow to plot and plant but quick to reap the harvest, haughty and proud of their material, all while shirking and sheltering their true selves from the world. If one orientates themselves towards fear they become antisocial, towards anger they become psychopathic, towards greed they become narcissistic, towards lust they become histrionic, towards pride they become machiavellian. If revenge dwells in their heart they cook in a boiling-pot of their own creation, fire stoked and bellowed day-after day. If paranoia dominates their mind, due to fear of loss, fear of judgement, fear of the unknown, then they never have the focus to appreciate what they do have, until it's too late and slips through their fingers like so many motes of sand. In the end of our lives the holy will state: "Truly, I have been dwelling in heaven, among angels, I am blessed beyond words. Thankyou for my hardships, and may my blessings now descend to others." In the end of our lives the wicked will lament: "Cursed by fate and God and life am I, it was all for naught, I never had enough and now what I did have is gone, why am I forsaken, what could I have done to deserve this?" But it's about grace, not works. We are not that which alchemizes matter, we are alchemized matter, born from a tiny spec and grown into the most capable creature to ever exist, we should recognize that only through our ability to pay attention, not our capabilities of destruction, are we able to regain the grace we fell from when we first hid our shame from God, for fear of being judged for our newfound sin of works. Grace, not works.
 
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Maybe to get to heaven
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“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
 
Heaven is for people who are perfect ONLY. No human is perfect, and no work can be done to earn your way to heaven. But there is good news. You are made perfect through Christs sacrifice. Acknowledging this is what gives you the forgiveness to gain access to heaven.
 
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If you want to be serious about this:

Just about the only thing that could possibly morally justify anything like hell is attempting to inflict hell on someone/something else, knowing full well what it is.

It's a moral black-hole at the center of every religion that attempts to justify it. The doctrine's only purpose is to torture good men and drive them mad. Evil men don't care.

Don't worry about it. You weren't born owing money. God never came by to demand groveling obeisance from you, those are just assholes in funny hats.
 
Eternity and all the reality bits that have to "fill" it, from what you could call heaven to what seems like hell.
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There's probably a fountain from where every reality emerges, the starting point of an infinite introspection that somehow ends where it started
 
I like to think the afterlife is "externalized inner reality" (as David Staume put it), so if one is evil on the inside, they make hell. No tyrannical and rather Homo sapiens-like wrathful god condemning anyone to an eternity of horrific torture for finite sins.

Such an "externalized inner reality" belief is at least part of the "New Church" school of thought.
 
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David Brown said:
Prove we aren't already some minor hell for some other realm. Oh wait you don't have a desert merchant fairy tale story to base your worldview on for that so you can't.
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Why minor, it's pretty hardcore.
And why look so far as to other realms, just open your eye and see this one as it is.
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While most people think of hell as a place that exists to torment, it's actually a mindset. Acts that bring you closer to God aren't necessarily things that do so on a metaphysical level of bringing you into a dieter's favor. It's about putting you in a mindset that brings you closer to your own peace. The two might be related but that's an abstraction that doesn't really matter. Most sins in terms of traditional Christian values are things that focus on centering your existence around yourself without care for others. They bring short term pleasures but in the long run leave you in a place of self destruction. The whole thing with Jesus and the poor woman giving away her last dime and him or the whole eye through the Camel of the needle thing is a spiritual focus on no matter your place in life, if you aren't thinking of others and placing importance in that then you'll always be in your own personal hell of seeking self satisfaction that will never exist.
 
The universe is a simulation being run by a post-biological civilization that's abandoned its physical form and moved their consciousness into a digital heaven.

The simulation we "live" in is basically their incubator. It's how they reproduce. Show yourself to be high quality and you'll be transferred to the Heaven server upon death. Be trash and you'll be tossed in the delete folder, aka Hell.
 
People still believe in heaven and hell? My goodness, how primitive.
 
You go to Hell because you are banned from the kingdom of Heaven and Eden. Hell is where the fallen angels went after being cast away. You join them in the void, a dark place untouched by the Lord's graces and vibrant creativity.
 
DeeDee Megadoodoo said:
The universe is a simulation being run by a post-biological civilization that's abandoned its physical form and moved their consciousness into a digital heaven.

The simulation we "live" in is basically their incubator. It's how they reproduce. Show yourself to be high quality and you'll be transferred to the Heaven server upon death. Be trash and you'll be tossed in the delete folder, aka Hell.
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Basically the plot of "Defending your Life"

 
i don't even know what hell would look like. It's described as an eternity of torture, but that's not really feasible. Infinity is a very very long time, and you'd either be reduced to nothing or become desensitized to the torture as you get used to pain. Any form of torture where you are harmed or injured would eventually accumulate into you becoming an unthinking mass of dust, unless you have an immortal or regenerating body. But if you do have an immortal or regenerating body, you lose the psychological horror of getting your hands chopped off all he time and after the first few hundred years it becomes little more then another day in the office. To get around that you could be forced into a perpetual loop of repeating the same events over and over, but then the question of whether you are even a person anymore as your existence is little more then playing a movie on loop
 
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