Hell Houses, HellStop

[Andromeda_Organa]

yes or no? What do y'all think?

[Paul Hazelwood]

Screw hell

[B_T]

What is this? Forgive my ignorance...

[Nathan]

What do we think about what?  Hell houses and hellstop . .are those sites, subjects . . .churches???

[B_T]

Actually, I found what it means:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_house

Looks like it's some kind of a horrible theater and a way to depict everlasting torment to the audience.

This is just... awful. My opinion is that this kind of attractions should be banned all over the world.

[Nathan]

Ah, so I was right . . .it was about churches. :laughing7: :laughing7:

[jabcat]

I think they're  :thumbdown:.  Full of misunderstanding and misinformation...

[martincisneros]

I have mixed feelings about 'em 'cause of my appreciation for art.  Minus the part of those being the place where people will end up that haven't learned to pronounce the Name of Jesus and grovel appropriately for the rest of their lives in blasphemy against genuine Biblical humility.  I have mixed feelings about a total ban.  In the interests of a healthier society while television, movies, radio, books, magazines, newspapers, and Churches are in the current state that they're in.  Then in the interests of reclaiming the Churches and the Nations, then perhaps one of those laws totally banning it for a century -- IF it were a part of a much bigger picture in reclaiming the Churched and the Lost from images of their own damnation for all of eternity.  But I'd have to surprise everybody with a Colossians 2 response about not having the touch not, taste not, handle not exclusively on terms of asceticism, as though by itself that would create the kind of personal or global life that we want, [or as though that made us better than those that love doing those,] but keeping a bigger picture balance with 1Corinthians 9 about all things to all people to reach as many as can be reached in this life time.  But as an art form, and again, not all are going to agree with me, I'm sure, but I'd love to play "Jason" in a movie or some character approximating that.  I'd scare everybody on set into never making another one of those kind of movies ever again for the rest of their lives!

[ChuckK3]

I've seen the documentary.  It's really nothing more than a "Christian Horror Flick".  :mshock: But seriously, how many Christians actually watch horror movies?  Why do we want to be "scared" or "horrified"?

I too like a good thrill, but not something grotesque.  When I was younger, a wild rollercoaster ride was good for me.  The wilder, the better.  And when I was in my teens, it was local stock car races.  I enjoyed them mainly for the cool wrecks that would take place (Of course I would pray the driver walked away unscathed, and every race I attended they always did.)

Chuck

[Andromeda_Organa]

I've seen it to. I liked it when the girl told the preacher that someone who commits suicide isn't in their right mind, so how could God send them to Hell. :icon_flower:

[sven]

i've heard about this but never watched, but reminds me on roman catholicism in the Middle Ages

[jabcat]

i've heard about this but never watched, but reminds me on roman catholicism in the Middle Ages

There you go  :thumbsup:...very much where this came from, and those doctrines permeate mainstream churches.  I have a very good friend who got saved about 10 years ago.  Fantastic, beautiful!  He's a believer now.  But the  "church" which he joined (Baptist) hosted one of these "hell houses", and guess what?  My precious, new brother in the Lord was up to his neck involved in the thing and thought he was doing a good thing.  We all have our levels of blindness, and thankfully God is revealing Himself more and more in these days.  Some day (age) we won't have such things as "hell houses"...