The Non-Existence of Hell (Religion)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, September 30, 2010, 03:55 (5167 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

The Seven levels of hell. Haven't had to dicker with that in a while, but I'll give it a stab.
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> Three terms were used in the bible, all translated to the word 'hell' in English. Sheol, Gehenna, and Hades(in the Christian Greek Scriptures). 
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> Sheol is directly translated to 'pit' or 'hole' and literally was the common grave.
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> Gehenna was a real place located outside of Jerusalem, where children where sacrificed to Moloch in the "valley of the son of Hinnom."
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> Hades is as we all know, the Greek version of the underworld, or the realm of the dead.
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> These words were not the source of the biblical hell. The biblical hell of fire and brimstone and all that goodness is from the book of Revelations.
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> 20:14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death ... the lake of fire.
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> > If you learn more about Jewish Esoterica, you also realize that Gehenna and it's "Seven planes" marks the "Left hand Path" of the Sephiroth. (The Dark Side to the uninitiated.) 
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> I am very familiar with the Ain-soph and the tree of Sephiroth, as well as the two pillars. However, I believe you have misunderstood the meaning behind those seven layers of 'hell'. That is a bleed over from Esoteric teachings, and it is the seven layers with the man is stripped of his impurities before he can be reborn.-All I can do is present you the same information I presented David: Those same articles ratify Sheol, Gehenna, or whatever else to a place where souls are tortured (for a maximum of one year) as punishment for their sins. If you can find some reason to deny Kabbalistic mystics, by all means do so, but they use all the same books you do to assert their claims. And many of those teachings were present during 2nd Temple Judaism. -I'm using the "Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism" in combination with the apocryphal books, I Enoch, II Enoch, III Enoch, as well as Jubilees. No, hell isn't a place of eternal torment, but it is clearly a "penitentiary for the wicked."

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