what do you think about? will it be fire or ice?

of ice? I have not heard that before.

Anyways, (Revelation 20:10) And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Hell is the opposite of heaven, so according to my reply to your thread about heaven, hell for me would be full of hostility, pain, regret, anxiety, and... irritating people and demons.
For me this kind of hell is the worst

drag00n365 : Are you using ice for a metaphor? Or have you actually heard of people thinking of hell as ice?

Just heard a sermon on that today. The bible says fire. There is also a possibility that the biblical description is symbolic. Not saying this to make it sound less as bad, but rather it could be worse. Hell would be a place of such unbearable agony due to the fact that it is completely separated from God.

Ill say ice because the saints won the super bowl,jk um fire i heard that if you are really bad they send you to a river of fire that is much hotter than normal fire .

play4fun :
tRIUNE :
I think he's referring to the expression, "when hell freezes over"... ehh... it's just random speculation.
It's definitely fire though, except much worse than actual fire on earth.

If hell is hot heaven is probably cold and snowy. If that is not the case then there is obviously somewhere else besides heaven and hell that is.

Whats worse a hot day or a cold day? Cold day is a lot worse you be shacking and shivering and the roads are hell too.

Also considering life comes from the boiling hot sun it would not make sense to make the sun the enemy or place of evil.

Try cooking food in a freezer... wont work.
Now try cooking food on a stove... it works.

So if you ask me, hell would be cold not hot.

JigSaw : Your reasoning fails to take into account one glaring detail =:
Hell is more than just a hot day's kind of heat. It's eternal agony... a LAKE OF FIRE. It's like sitting in a fire all day. How bearable .
Besides, heaven would be perfect weather, not cold. What kind of logic is that :/?

I think the burning lake of fire is symbolic of the suffering that will go on and not to be taken literally.

I actually imagine that hell is cold, dark, and miserable whereas heaven will be comfortably warm, bright and unimaginably happy. God is light, and light is warmth therefore the opposite of that would be dark and cold.

geeeogree: I agree that for the most part the Biblical description could be symbolic. But I still think it could still be extremely hot.

I think it's a far stretch to say that "hellfire" is simply symbolic unless you can render every verse, out of the vast amount of verses in the Bible that appear to speak of hell as a literal fire, as a metaphor for simply separation from God. If this were the case, I don't see the necessity for the Bible to even refer to it as fire.

I think it's also important to know that hell was never created for humans, but for Satan and the fallen angels. In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says the everlasting fire was prepared for the devil and his angels. scripture also teaches, "[God] is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). As such, the gates of hell are locked from the inside, meaning, if you end up in hell you will practically have to climb over Jesus to get there. So I don't think that discernment is used in referring to it as ice, symbolic possibly, but that's not the depiction the Bible uses.

According to the Holy Bible, Hell is a lake of fire and brimstone.

I don't think its all that far of a stretch. I think quite possibly there was some symbolism involved in the descriptions. I still think that there will be fire and heat but it will be more terrible than the descriptions.

I imagine it as a land of nothing but people doing what we do to each other in Mortal Kombat, and tons of other torture.