What is Heaven and Hell

[john.a]

Originally Posted by Chicory_Witch

It is my biggest problem with Christianity. Not Christ, his teachings, or legends, but the ending results.

Heaven and Hell are what you make of them. To some, worshiping God for all of forever would be Hellish while others seek Heaven's glory with every breath.

To answer the latter question, in my humble opinion, it depends on who you ask. If the word is true then those who don't know God and fail to accept him, so babies, mental handicaps and isolated peoples, will all go to Hell in a hand basket. This is not the loving God people want to accept, so others might say that God has already forgiven these people and show them the light when they arrive. Giving them a chance to decide. A sort of "Forgive them Father, they know not better" situation. No one should condemn a little child to a lake of fire, torture, pain and endlessness. Not even God.

I am not bashing you and I respect the validity of any experience you've ever had with Christianity, but I think the caricature of heaven, hell and salvation that you've portrayed is inaccurate, at least with respect to my own Christian tradition, Catholicism. I think I will, in a new post, write some prose about my own reflections on God and heaven to share the Catholic point of view. =)