Hell?

Would a person actually know that they were in Hell? Not a trick question, just a logical question.

These three terms have different meanings and must be recognized.
Hades has similarities to the Old Testament term, Sheol as "the place of the dead". Thus, it is used in reference to both the righteous and the wicked, since both wind up there eventually.[28]
Gehenna refers to the "Valley of Hinnon", which was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem. It was a place where people burned their garbage and thus there was always a fire burning there. Bodies of those deemed to have died in sin without hope of salvation (such as people who committed suicide) were thrown there to be destroyed.[29] Gehenna is used in the New Testament as a metaphor for the final place of punishment for the wicked after the resurrection.[30]
Tartaro (the verb "throw to Tartarus") occurs only once in the New Testament in II Peter 2:4, where it is parallel to the use of the noun form in 1 Enoch as the place of incarceration of 200 fallen angels. It mentions nothing about human souls being sent there in the afterlife.

What you must remember my friend is that when Shadrach Meshach an Abednego refused to bow down to the idol in Babylon, they were tossed in the furnace. Remember they were not harmed, there was an angel walking around in the furnace with them keeping them from harm. It sounds like a heavenly angel. So spirit creatures are not harmed by fire, What? If not one, then certainly not all? and have the power to protect humans from it. Would this not render a literal hell rather impotent? Yeah, if souls could hook up with angels in hell.
If the fire was not literal, but symbolic, what do you think fire would be symbolic of if not destruction? Maybe, the most physically painful thing known to man.
If all your sin is paid for at death, why is further punishment required? As if! Mortality is a gift, not a punishment; even good people die.

.. . . . Mortality is a gift, not a punishment; even good people die.

it is not and never was God's purpose for man to die.

it is not and never was God's purpose for man to die. I can't imagine who thwarted God and made man mortal against God's intentions.

I appreciate your response my friend, Probably an important question in my mind is this,
A man thrown into a literal lake of fire would not suffer would he? surely he would die / cease to exist? It is not the physical man, (he probably still buried in the ground).
Why would god have had something that causes destruction to picture something that causes eternal pain? I can't explain all of God's intentions - I could be wrong on most (or all) those to which I give a supposition; on this "Why", it's obvious to me that it is what God wishes. [/b]
Could you explain limbo to me with scripture? I cannot say I have peered too deeply into the theory I cannot say all that is, nor isn't, referred to in the Bible, but I'm taught it is a spiritual place, void of pleasure and pain. It's between purgatory and heaven; it is there where the soul of fetuses' go (having not known God, been baptized, nor had actions for which to be accountable).

yeh well even a god must obey the laws of biology. Remember God created those laws, and laws usually have loopholes. Nonetheless, souls aren't biological, they're spiritual.

I can't imagine who thwarted God and made man mortal against God's intentions.

That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned (Romans 5:12)

it is not and never was God's purpose for man to die.

yeh well even a god must obey the laws of biology.