Well, the pit of fire thing comes from Revelation when Satan and all of his followers are cast into a pit of bubbling sulfur and fire for eternity. I like to get my stuff directly from the source, not philosophers and poets who are speculating. The Bible says that Hell is the complete absence of God. There is an anecdote about a man who was Earthly Rich and a poor blind man. The Earthly Rich guy went to Hell because he rejected/didn't acknowledge God, yet the blind man did. And when he was in Hell, it was described as a dark place with a window into Heaven (think of standing on one side of a bottomless pit with Hell on one side, and Heaven on the other). Yet, try as he might, the Rich Man couldn't reach up to Heaven to know God, although he cried out and pleaded to be let in. There he saw the Blind Man that he had repeatedly shunned. Finally, one of the Angels came to pay a visit, and the Rich Man pleaded to let him go back to warn his friends about the horrors of Hell. This is where the Angel yells at him and says that his friends have the Prophets to warn him, and has plenty of chances to learn and repent. So that's what my belief on Hell is, it is the absence of God, you can't know Him, you can't experience His Love, but you are able to see it. That would be the ultimate torture, to see something that you could have had and be restrained from being it.
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"Hey Grif, Chupathingy...how bout that? I like it...got a ring to it."
"I have no earthly idea what it is I just saw, or what this place is, or where in the hell O'Malley is! My only choice is to blame Grif for coming up with such a flawed plan. Stupid, stupid Grif."
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