HELL

Growing up Catholic and then later in my early 20's having been exposed to the "born again" movement, I was taught that God punishes"sinners" with eternal damnation in a literal place called Hell. This I believed for quite awhile.  But what exactly is Hell ?  Church tells you thats where you go unless you follow their rules, dogmas,  or accepting the man Jesus as your saviour.  Hell is a literal place.  We are told just look to the Bible and your church teachers to confirm this.  Well man and their teachings are just their opinions and the Bible is at best an incomplete history, stories, and inaccurate translations.  Not to mention much of the New Testament being altered thru various councils and being written by folks who were not eye witnesses to Jesus.
  There is even question if Jesus actually existed, but I believe He did. Jesus' main message was to love one another and to love God.  Jesus and God can help any individual simply one needs to ask.  We do not need a church or set of dogmas which limit us as we can connect directly.  In fact we are part of God.  We cannot be seperate.  I like the analogy we are to God as the waves are to the ocean.
  You do not need to follow the words and demands of a minister or a priest to find God and to stay on God’s ‘good side’, as God does not have a ‘bad side’. He Loves all of us unconditionally and only wishes for us to discover and find this Love.  This begging for redemtion of our sins so we dont go to hell is created by man as a means of control.  And what is a sin exactly ?  To me its a mistake. Period.  And we all make mistakes and thats why we are all on the Earth plane and why we reincarnate, to learn and grow.
  God will not be sending anybody to hell because of mistakes.  When a child makes a mistak or an error in judgement does not the parent forgive ?  So we are supposed to believe that God, all powerfull and all loving, our Creator is not going to forgive us for our mistakes and yet even worse banish us for eternity to hell, supposedly a place of brutal fire, torture and torment ?!
  I think heaven and hell exist as states of being.  What we are experiencing on the physical plane now could be described as 'hell" and in the spirit realm hell could simply be a lower realm of "heaven" where we learn and then advance perhaps incarnating back to the earth plane for more lessons.
  But I realize that some need to believe in an actual hell as a place to suffer for eternity for percieved sins, and I am not here to try and change anyones cherished beliefs, but I would warn one to be carefull of what you believe because in the spirit plane what we think of happens instantly whereas what we think of on the earth plane happens but over time.  Thoughts are powerful.  So we you die or as I say pass over to the other side, if you think of hell you might just find yourself there.