Hell in Christian theology is interesting because the books themselves never actually describe Hell. In fact all places where Hell is miss attributed in the bible are actually real places that existed.
Gehenna is one such place and it’s just a real place in Jerusalem that was allegedly filled with evil people who committed child sacrifices.
Hell only exists as a revenge fiction written by Dante to accuse all the people he hated of being bad people.
So in a way, this is hell only in that the only promise of being a Christian is eternal life in heaven with the alternative being you just got the one shot here at life. And even then the books aren’t really clear if Heaven is a place or if it’s just Earth after Armageddon and then followers get resurrected to experience eternal life on a new earth that’s been rid of evil.
There’s some really interesting books on this like “Hell the Final Word” by Edward Fudge but that’s more of a processing of Hell as a cultural phenomena than just christian IIRC
Hell in Christian theology is interesting because the books themselves never actually describe Hell. In fact all places where Hell is miss attributed in the bible are actually real places that existed.
Gehenna is one such place and it’s just a real place in Jerusalem that was allegedly filled with evil people who committed child sacrifices.
Hell only exists as a revenge fiction written by Dante to accuse all the people he hated of being bad people.
So in a way, this is hell only in that the only promise of being a Christian is eternal life in heaven with the alternative being you just got the one shot here at life. And even then the books aren’t really clear if Heaven is a place or if it’s just Earth after Armageddon and then followers get resurrected to experience eternal life on a new earth that’s been rid of evil.
There’s some really interesting books on this like “Hell the Final Word” by Edward Fudge but that’s more of a processing of Hell as a cultural phenomena than just christian IIRC