God does not cause you pain. It is not like having eternal pain, it's about loss.
Sometimes figuratives are used to represent something that cannot be communicated to mere mortals. What hell is really like is one such example and it is not a literal place of fire and brimstone, or where we are on the rack being live dissected by demons. There will be pain, but not in the sense of pain inflicted by torture methods imagined in the movies.
Consider that of all torments common to mankind, the burning by fire is the worst. Those who experience the reality of hell would probably find it much worse than mere fire.
Quote properly speaking, Hell is a place of perfect malice and alienation.
I cannot even begin to imagine the horrors of eternal death (
nor do I wish to). It is enough for me to heed Scripture's warning to "
flee from the wrath to come." No matter the mental analogues we may dream up, or find outlined in Scripture, I am confident that if "
no eye hath seen nor ear heard" what joys lie in store for God's chosen children, then the same sort of expression—
no eye hath seen nor ear heard—may be said in contradistinction regarding what is lies store for those in Hell.
Per Scripture, their bodies will be "
raised to dishonor"
eternally (1 Cor. 15). So just magnify all the negative feelings—of both body and spirit—that you have ever experienced, and you will likely have only some vague notion of the pain, shame, and rage of those creatures permanently and perfectly at enmity with their Creator.
AMR
