HEAVEN and HELL

Is there really Heaven or is it a myth? Heaven is real and there are Lots of references to it in the Bible and the other main religious books such as the Torah and the Quran.

"Hope not ever to see heaven: I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and into ice." Dante's 'Inferno', from which the quotation comes, is perhaps the most vivid depiction in literature of the place of eternal punishment for evildoers. Abodes for the dead have formed a part of the religious belief of most peoples. One reason for such belief has been the reluctance to accept the end of human life on Earth as permanent, as the extinction of individual existence.

The names hell and Hades have generally been understood as places of punishment, either eternal or temporary. Ancient cultures often envisioned an abode for the dead as a reward, or as neutral, rather than always as a punishment. In very ancient primitive religions, as well as among American Indians, the dead went to dwell with their ancestors or to a heavenly location with other souls. Ancient Israel conceived of a place called Sheol, a dark and gloomy place, to be sure, but no elements of punishment were attached to it.

As Christian we know Heaven exist not only in the Old testament, but in the Gospels according to what the Lord Jesus Christ (see John 14:2,3). Later the Apostle Paul also talk about the saints that stood the test by grace true their Faith because they desire a better country a Heavenly one ( see Hebrew 11:16)

Likewise in Mathew 5:21-22, Christ Jesus taught about judgment on those that murders, slanders and curse others that the looming effect of these acts are eternal damnation and danger of hell fire.

So we can truly acknowledge that Heaven is real and hell is sure real for those that do not accept the salvation and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The most revealing and detail about hell could be seen in the book of Revelation, most vividly in chapter 19:20.