• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Every instance of the word “hell” in an English bible comes from a completely different word in the Hebrew and Greek, ones with meanings like “the grave.” Jesus does spin a parable about Hades once. The same Hades portrayed the Disney cartoon Hercules. It is still not “hell,” though.

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      Yes, “Hell” in the Hebrew bible is Sheol, which is more like “the grave” or “underworld”, though the HALOT notes the root is uncertain.

      Gehenna, though, as seen in Matthew, is the place where the final judgment was supposed to occur and the unbelievers would be thrown into the lake of fire.