The Non-Existence of Hell (Religion)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 23:55 (5167 days ago) @ David Turell


> > So, as you see, I find it hard to believe the claim that there is no Hell in the Christian Bible considering that all of this knowledge was extremely well-known to all initiated Rabbis. I can go on and on; but the theology in this is incredibly extensive.
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> I can categorically state that there is no Hell in the Jewish faith. The Kaballah discusses four different outcomes after death, and limbo is the worst.-David,
I know you're speaking on your own authority, but I'm holding a book in my hand as I speak written by a Rabbi, and while there is no place called "Hell," everything I just wrote was from this encyclopedia. -It's called "The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism," by Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis. The other books I've mentioned discuss Sheol, and are also Jewish books as well; including the Talmud. The Zohar also contains plenty of Kabbalic references. -Here's the Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna-"The picture of Gehenna as the place of punishment or destruction of the wicked occurs frequently in the Mishnah in Kiddushin 4.14, Avot 1.5; 5.19, 20, Tosefta t.Bereshith 6.15, and Babylonian Talmud b.Rosh Hashanah 16b:7a; b.Bereshith 28b. Gehenna is considered a Purgatory-like place where the wicked go to suffer until they have atoned for their sins. It is stated that the maximum amount of time a sinner can spend in Gehenna is one year, with the exception of five people who are there for all of eternity.[10]"-An entire system also surrounds Gehenna as a source of spiritual enlightenment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qliphoth
(The "Dark Side" I mentioned previously.) -It's possible as a reformed Jew that they chose not to teach about Gehenna? -If that's not Hell... I don't know what is.

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