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unfortunate part of it is that many do not believe that there is such a place, whether it is actual or metaphoric in nature. Of course we don't want to believe that there would be such a place but, how would you know good if there were no evil? By the same token, how would you know Heaven if there is no hell? How could you understand eternal life with God if you cannot believe in eternal damnation without Him? We must have a standard of recognition. And for that to happen the standard cannot be a metaphor. It has to be an actual place or thing.

So then, is hell a real place and not a metaphor? Yes, it is, but men have a misrepresented view of what hell is. When the Bible speaks of the lake of fire, is this a real place or a metaphor? It is a real place and THIS is where all of the evil-doers will be put to suffer an eternity of torment for having continued to follow after Satan.

In closing, there are a lot of questions that we ask concerning the Bible. Some of them are questions that need clarifying before one can render an answer. What I mean is that we need to be certain of what we are asking for before we ask. We need to be sure that we understand enough to know what answer we are seeking with our questions and how to word them appropriately. Such is the case with Hell being seen as a place of torment for evil-doers. We speak of "hell and damnation" but actually the two have little to do with one another. It is, at least in part, because of misrepresentations like this that we don't have a clear understanding in a lot of what the Bible is saying.

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