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This still leaves the question of why God set out those people's lives (or the negative choice of deeds) which result in Hell, and why God made it possible to become evil. In Islamic thought, evil is considered to be movement away from good, and God created this possibility so that humans are able to recognize good. [43]
God could have created a world without the possibility of evil, but he willed to create the world in a "state of journeying" to its consummation (the time when evil will no longer exist). [75] God could have created beings without the possibility of committing sin, but he willed to create free beings, e.g., beings that have free-will and must ...
Christian writers from Tertullian to Luther have held to traditional notions of Hell. However, the annihilationist position is not without some historical precedent. Early forms of annihilationism or conditional immortality are claimed to be found in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch [10] [20] (d. 108/140), Justin Martyr [21] [22] (d. 165), and Irenaeus [10] [23] (d. 202), among others.
The Last Judgment (detail), c.1431, by Fra Angelico depicting people being tormented in hell In religion and folklore, hell is a location or state in the afterlife in which souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as punishment after death.
The New Church considers it a partial (or introductory) revelation; Islam worships one God, teaches one to live well and shun evil and teaches that Jesus was a great prophet and the son of the virgin Mary, but not the son of God (as in Christianity). The Quran contains teachings from sacred scripture. [145]
Traditionally in the past Hell has been spoken of or considered as a place. [55] Some have rejected metaphorical interpretations of the biblical descriptions of hell, [56] and have attributed to Hell a location within the earth, [57] while others who uphold the opinion that hell is a definite place, say instead that its location is unknown. [58]
Messianism is the belief in the advent of a messiah who acts as the savior of a group of people. [1] [2] Messianism originated as a Zoroastrian religious belief and followed to Abrahamic religions, [3] but other religions also have messianism-related concepts.
This still leaves the question of why God set out those people's lives (or the negative choice of deeds) which result in Hell, and why God made it possible to become evil. In Islamic thought, evil is considered to be movement away from good, and God created this possibility so that humans are able to recognize good. [ 228 ] (