Hell?
Just before hopping in the shower this morning, I was contemplating the logistics of suffering in hell (as one does).
I realized that in order to feel pain (as a human) it takes nerve endings.
It takes a body.
So then that begs the question... do people go to hell with human bodies? Or some other type of body with nerve endings? Or does it just work some... completely other way?
The logistical challenges are a little different if you're a Christian or an Adventist, but either way I can't make it make sense.
As a Christian, the theory is those who are going to hell are going straight there right after they die to begin their eternal torture.
But... do they go there with a... body? It can't really be the one they used here. I mean how many people are cremated to dust? Plus the bodies of the deceased stay here... how can they also literally be in hell?
(And is hell an actual place or... something else... different dimension???)
So in that scenario they need a new body. And I have never heard of someone saying that Satan could create a new body. So then God needs to give them a new body so that they can... suffer?
But creating a new body... we would call that a miracle... so God is performing a miracle so they can suffer in hell? I mean that would make God soooo complicit. I just can't see a way around that.
As an Adventist, when anyone dies their Spirit goes back to God.
Which actually begs another question... there's spirits of wicked people that will ULTIMATELY end up in hell but until then God is holding them in a limbo holding tank?
Until He comes up against the same issue which is creating a human body so that they can burn.
Furthermore logistically how can you have something burn forever? Because one of the things fire takes is a fuel source which it consumes. So again we would have to turn to magic or a miracle or something like that?
Then to add yet another twist I think there's this general concept that the afterlife involves becoming something like an angel, or spirit, or not having a body. Which then raises the complexity of actually being able to suffer in flames. Like the angel in the story of the fiery furnace... yeah it all gets complicated pretty quickly.
Then we could raise the Adventist question of "is Jesus in a physical human body after His resurrection" which I was taught as an Adventist that that was the case.
But I was also taught to invite Him into my heart. Which I'm guessing was just in a metaphorical sense and it really meant the Holy Spirit. Because I was taught that Jesus couldn't be omnipresent. Which... this is ridiculous... but in that case the only way He could be in me would mean that I would have to... eat Him? And then He could only be in me and no one else.
I know it's ridiculous but that's exactly my point.
If someone can make this make sense, please do.
Just this part: Where are the nerve endings coming from to promote suffering in hell?
PS—And assuming God is all-powerful... yet people go to hell... I don't think I have to explain the issue with this one.