The problem of Hell is a variant of the problem of evil, aimed specifically at religions which hold both that: An omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnibenevolent (all-loving) God exists. Some people will be consigned to Hell forever, and will be eternally tortured. Problem of Hell - The debate. While Hell has traditionally been regarded as a punishment for wrong-doing or sin in life, the problem arises primarily from the severity of the punishment, if Hel ...

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Problem of Hell - The debate
Problem of Hell - Issues of Justice Problem of Hell - Hell as a choice
Problem of Hell - The argument from ignorance Problem of Hell - Denying the assumptions Problem of Hell - Bibliography

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Problem of Hell, Problem of Hell - The debate, Problem of Hell - Issues of Justice, Problem of Hell - Hell as a choice, Problem of Hell - The argument from ignorance, Problem of Hell - Denying the assumptions, Problem of Hell - Bibliography

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As in the debate over the problem of evil, an option open to theists is to state that man is not perceptive enough to actually understand the mind of God, and cannot therefore conclude that the existence of Hell is unjust. The crux of this is that it is very possible that we do not understand the mind of God, and thus may not understand the reasons for the existence of Hell. The plausibility of such arguments are however lower than in the problem of evil. With regard to the question "why is there evil in the world?" there are a ...

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Problem of Hell, Problem of Hell - The debate, Problem of Hell - Issues of Justice, Problem of Hell - Hell as a choice, Problem of Hell - The argument from ignorance, Problem of Hell - Denying the assumptions, Problem of Hell - Bibliography

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Hell is, according to many religious beliefs, a place or a state of painful suffering. The English word 'hell' comes from the Teutonic 'Hel', which originally meant "to cover" and later referred to the goddess of the Norse underworld, Helgardh. Compare Anglo-Saxon helan, Greek kalyptein and Latin celare = "to hide, to cover" (all from IE *kel). In many religions, after death, evildoers either suffer eternally or until they have paid for their bad deeds before reincarnation or redemption. In monotheis ...

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In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of evil or suffering in the world with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent god. The problem of evil arises from the supposition that a perfectly good god would not have created a world containing evil, or would not permit its continued existence in the world, and that an omniscient and omnipotent god should be able to arrange the world according to his intentions. Since evil manifestly exists, it wo ...

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Problem of evil - Summary of the problem Problem of evil - Types of evil
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Universalism refers to concepts and issues which are said to be "universal" in appeal—i.e. trancending any existing localizing boundaries. The term may refer to: In comparative religion, universalism is the belief that true and valuable insights are available in many of the religious traditions which have grown up in various human cultures. It posits that a spiritually aware person will respect religious traditions other than his own and will be open to learning from them. It does not deny that immersion in one t ...

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In some forms of Western Christian belief, damnation to hell is the punishment of God for persons with unredeemed sin. Damnation can be a motivator for conversions to Christianity. One conception is of eternal suffocating heat, being taunted by demons for all eternity. (Actually, the Christian prophetic book of Revelation says that all demons will also be damned) Another conception, derived from the scripture about Gehenna ...

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Annihilationism is one of several doctrines of hell in the Christian religion. It states that the final fate of the wicked (sinners) is total destruction, similar to eternal unconsciousness. It rejects the Traditionalist view that hell is a place of never-ending torture and/or separation from God. Annihilationism - Annihilationism in Christianity. In contrast to Traditionalism, which holds that the wicked will suffer in torment forever, and Universalism, which holds that all humanity will eventually ...

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In Christian theology, universal reconciliation or universal salvation, is the doctrine or belief that all will eventually find salvation and reconciliation with God, going to heaven sometime after death. Also known as Christian Trinitarian Universalism, this concept is often called universalism, a term with a variety of other meanings, but which in this article will refer to universal salvation. By doctrine, most denominations of Christianity reject universalism as a heresy, although many modern Christians believe in universalism. Some "universalists" believe that some will endure a limited period of p ...

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The Argument from Inconsistent Revelations, also known as the Avoiding the Wrong Hell Problem, is an argument against the existence of God. It asserts that it is unlikely that God exists because many theologians and faithful adherents have produced conflicting and mutually exclusive revelations. Since a person not privy to revelation must either accept it or reject it based solely upon the authority of its proponent, and there is no way for a mere mortal to resolve these conflicting claims by investigation, it is prudent to reserve one's judgment. The argument appears, among ot ...

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W.I.T.C.H. was a feminist organisation formed in the United States in 1968. The name W.I.T.C.H. is an acronym for Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell. The activities of the group were mainly guerilla theatre (a mixture of street theatre and protest). W.I.T.C.H members chanted hexes to elaborate the political and economic problems they saw in the companies which they protested against. In December of 1968 W.I.T.C.H targeted both the House Unamerican Activities Committee and the Chicago Eight for port ...

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For those who believe the traditional doctrine of Hell is unconvincing, and believe that claims 1 and 2 are incompatible, the only course of action is to deny one or both of them. The first claim can be denied by rejecting the existence of God (atheism), or of a God sufficiently powerful or loving to prevent people from being consigned to Hell. The second claim can also be denied. Three possible ways to do this (while maintaining a belief in God) are the doctrines of Annihilationism, where Hell is seen only as oblivion w ...

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Problem of Hell, Problem of Hell - The debate, Problem of Hell - Issues of Justice, Problem of Hell - Hell as a choice, Problem of Hell - The argument from ignorance, Problem of Hell - Denying the assumptions, Problem of Hell - Bibliography

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There are a number of problems commonly encountered with DLLs — especially after numerous applications have been installed and uninstalled on a system: The lack of a standard versioning, naming, and file system location schema for DLLs allows incompatible DLLs to be easily overwritten by each other and orphaned; The lack of a standard method for software installation allows incompatible DLLs to overwrite each other and unnecessary DLLs to be forgotten; The lack of linker tool support for DLL Application Binar ...

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The solution to the paradox is to observe that the two contradictory arguments are taking different limits. The obvious answer takes the limit of the number of bills in the sack; the less obvious answer takes the limit of the set of bills in the sack first, and counts them up afterwards. It is surprising, but not inconsistent, that these two different computations yield different answers. Which answer is correct? This depends on how you interpret the problem. If you concentrate on the fate of individual bills, and are comfortable with ...

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Monty Hell problem, Monty Hell problem - The paradox, Monty Hell problem - Attacks on the second solution, Monty Hell problem - Everybody dies but that doesn't mean someday no one will be alive, Monty Hell problem - You can't multiply a zero probability by infinitely many elements, Monty Hell problem - What if the Devil pays you out of his heating fee receipts?, Monty Hell problem - Solution, Monty Hell problem - Appendix: Proof that each bill leaves the sack with probability 1, Monty Hell problem - Historical notes

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Let us start with the obvious explanation why it doesn't make any difference which banker you choose: after t days, both Monty and Marilyn have 9t dollars. Since these quantities both grow without limit, either will give you infinitely many dollars in the end. Unfortunately, there is a less obvious explanation that favors Marilyn. This explanation depends on the assumption that the contents of Monty's sack on day ω is a set-theoretic limit of the contents on the preceding days, where the limit of a sequence of sets A ...

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Monty Hell problem, Monty Hell problem - The paradox, Monty Hell problem - Attacks on the second solution, Monty Hell problem - Everybody dies but that doesn't mean someday no one will be alive, Monty Hell problem - You can't multiply a zero probability by infinitely many elements, Monty Hell problem - What if the Devil pays you out of his heating fee receipts?, Monty Hell problem - Solution, Monty Hell problem - Appendix: Proof that each bill leaves the sack with probability 1, Monty Hell problem - Historical notes

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Because the second solution is so disturbing, many people attempt to resolve the paradox by finding an error in it. This section will describe some of these approaches, and explain why they are not supported by modern-day set theory and probability theory. Monty Hell problem - Everybody dies but that doesn't mean someday no one will be alive. Consider the following variant of the "Monty" process, which eliminates the probabilities: on day 1, element 1 is placed in the sack. On day 2, element 2 is placed in ...

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Monty Hell problem, Monty Hell problem - The paradox, Monty Hell problem - Attacks on the second solution, Monty Hell problem - Everybody dies but that doesn't mean someday no one will be alive, Monty Hell problem - You can't multiply a zero probability by infinitely many elements, Monty Hell problem - What if the Devil pays you out of his heating fee receipts?, Monty Hell problem - Solution, Monty Hell problem - Appendix: Proof that each bill leaves the sack with probability 1, Monty Hell problem - Historical notes

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Here is a proof that the probability that a bill stays in the sack forever is zero. Let w be the number of bills added each day, and consider some bill that is added on day t0, where the first day is day 1. The probability that it remains in the bag on day n, given that it is present at the end of day n − 1, is so the prob ...

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Monty Hell problem, Monty Hell problem - The paradox, Monty Hell problem - Attacks on the second solution, Monty Hell problem - Everybody dies but that doesn't mean someday no one will be alive, Monty Hell problem - You can't multiply a zero probability by infinitely many elements, Monty Hell problem - What if the Devil pays you out of his heating fee receipts?, Monty Hell problem - Solution, Monty Hell problem - Appendix: Proof that each bill leaves the sack with probability 1, Monty Hell problem - Historical notes

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Hell appears in several mythologies and religions in different guises, and is commonly inhabited by demons and the souls of dead people. Some accounts of Hell describe it as a series of numbered layers or levels. What the layers consist of differ from religion to religion, but the descriptions of certain numbered layers often coincide even between different relgions. Examples of these coincidences include a layer of intense flames numbered 54 in several religions or a layer where the world looks like earth but is inhabited by demons; ...

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Hell, Hell - Origins, Hell - Religious accounts, Hell - Rabbinic Judaism, Hell - Ancient Greek religion, Hell - Christianity, Hell - Islam, Hell - Chinese and Japanese religions, Hell - Hinduism, Hell - Buddhism, Hell - Bahá'í Faith, Hell - Taoism, Hell - Hell in Literature, Hell - Hell in entertainment and other popular culture, Hell - Non-religious context, Hell - Euphemistic ways of saying hell, Hell - Language edits, Hell - Places named Hell

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Hell appears in several mythologies and religions in different guises, and is commonly inhabited by demons and the souls of dead people. Some accounts of Hell describe it as a series of numbered layers or levels. What the layers consist of differ from religion to religion, but the descriptions of certain numbered layers often coincide even between different religions. Examples of these coincidences include a layer of intense flames numbered 54 in several religions or a layer where the world looks like earth but is inhabited by demons; ...

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Hell, as it exists in the Western popular imagination, has its origins in Hellenized Christianity, particularly taken from adaptation of the Hellenistic afterlife known as Tartarus. Judaism, at least initially, believed in Sheol, a shadowy existence to which all were sent indiscriminately. Sheol may have been little more than a poetic metaphor for death, not really an afterlife at all: see for example Sirach. However, by the third to second century B.C. the idea had grown to encom ...

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