The Non-Existence of Hell (Religion)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 30, 2010, 05:40 (5166 days ago) @ xeno6696


> I... hate to be a bother, but when the Christian Bible mentions Sheol explicitly (and Sheol again, is an aspect of the "punishing" afterlife) I find it quite hard to deny that Judaism as a whole when taken with Rabbinic literature abandons the concept of "hell." Filtering to Balance_Maintained's insistence that there is no hell in Christianity, I'm forced to be skeptical. If the phrase (which in the OT is translated merely as "Grave" became something more powerful to the 2nd temple Jews (a very pessimistic and apocalyptic (in the modern sense) lot--it is quite difficult to deny hell. But when we consider that Kabbalism can easily be extended to exist back in Solomon's time--"Solomon's Seal" has had mystical importance to more than just Jewis mystics. I would posit (from the Spanish Shepardic Jews that wrote the Zohar) that Kabbalic mysticism was more prevalent than one would think...-I have no idea about Judaism as a whole. I know what I was taught. You are delving back into Jewish mysticism. From what I have experienced most Jews will not know what you are discussing.