Quandry about hell

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I don’t know if this is the right section to post this, but here goes. I was watching on EWTN “What every Catholic needs to know about hell” and they were saying that Scripture alludes to hell being in the center of the earth. They said alot of theologians agree with this. When the sun burns out in 5 billion years and the earth is either destroyed by a nova or just goes cold. What happens to hell since it’s eternal? When they said hell is in the center of the earth I just went “Wait a minute” is God going to move hell when the earth ceases to be?
 
I would think that many theologians think of hell as more of a state of being than an actual place.

But, you bring up a good quandry, unless the earth is eternal, which is certainly possible; perhaps when this earth “passes away”, the earth as we know it passes away?

Guess we’ll find out someday. 😉
 
They described the main torment of hell as separation from God which makes all other suffering seem insignificant by comparison. They said that there would be torments to the senses that would come from outside the senses. So whether that indicates that it is a place or a state. I don’t know, but they sure seem to feel that it is an actual location, and that it is in the center of the earth. The show had Scott Hahn, Tim Staples amongst alot of others.

We know that the old heaven and earth are going to pass away, so I just want to know where hell goes?
 
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They described the main torment of hell as separation from God which makes all other suffering seem insignificant by comparison. They said that there would be torments to the senses that would come from outside the senses. So whether that indicates that it is a place or a state. I don’t know, but they sure seem to feel that it is an actual location, and that it is in the center of the earth. The show had Scott Hahn, Tim Staples amongst alot of others.

We know that the old heaven and earth are going to pass away, so I just want to know where hell goes?
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Perhaps hell is sent to hell?😃
 
Offically, the Church does not teach us WHERE hell is!
Anything else is just theological speculation.

St. Augustine says:
**“It is my opinion that the nature of hell-fire and the location of hell are known to *no man ***unless the Holy Ghost made it known to him by a special revelation”, (De Civ. Dei, XX, xvi, in P.L., XLI, 682).
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St. Chrysostom reminds us:
**“We *must not ***ask where hell is, but how we are to escape it” (In Rom., hom. xxxi, n. 5, in P.G., LX, 674).
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I’m not aware of any references to the lake of fire being in the center of the earth. (Actually, that hardly fits Revelation 20 at all.) I think there are references to Sheol/Hades being under the earth (though I suspect these are not intended literally, given Sheol’s association with the grave); I’d guess that is what they are thinking of. Sheol (Hades in the NT) refers to the abode of the dead, to which both the righteous and wicked go (though there was apparently punishment for the wicked), and the KJV and possibly other translations of that period translated it “hell.” However, Sheol/Hades is not “hell” as we usually think of it today; Sheol/Hades are emptied and the wicked are transferred to the lake of fire (Rev. 20), the place of true eternal punishment.
 
Are you certain they were not talking about Dante’s Divine Comedy, in which hell is located at the center of the earth as a literary device?

Peace,
Dante (the other one)
 
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I’m not aware of any references to the lake of fire being in the center of the earth. (Actually, that hardly fits Revelation 20 at all.) I think there are references to Sheol/Hades being under the earth (though I suspect these are not intended literally, given Sheol’s association with the grave); I’d guess that is what they are thinking of. Sheol (Hades in the NT) refers to the abode of the dead, to which both the righteous and wicked go (though there was apparently punishment for the wicked), and the KJV and possibly other translations of that period translated it “hell.” However, Sheol/Hades is not “hell” as we usually think of it today; Sheol/Hades are emptied and the wicked are transferred to the lake of fire (Rev. 20), the place of true eternal punishment.
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This makes sense, and I think this is what they were actually referring to. Thanks, I appreciate this. Trying to learn as fast as I can.
 
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