... reference 'Hell fire' appears 3 times. In Matthew 13.42, the Bible says "and shall cast them in a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." However this can be taken as very poetic and may just be a metaphor. Many Christians believe that hell is just a place where God is not present. I think that the reason the concepts of Heaven and Hell are so hard to get to grips with is the fact that you can't apply empirical evidence to them. For Heaven and Hell to have and philosophical foundation they must make some philosophical sense- the philosophical sense would be that Heaven and Hell could offer a solution to the problem of evil. Philosophy's aims are to understand things that science is unable to solve, through reasoning and looking at the world. People want hard evidence nowadays and seeing as science can't give it, ...

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