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[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you just talking about the Old Testament? Cuz yeah it’s not there, but revelations has the whole lake of fire bit and there’s eternal punishment in the gospels

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Any mentions of "hell" are mistranslations of something that actually meant "the grave".
For example, some texts claiming Jesus talking about "Gehenna" got translated into "Hades", and that into "Hell" sometimes, but that Jesus was actually talking about the Valley of Hinnom, the garbage dump of Jerusalem. Where they sometimes burned trash (although some exaggerate, saying it was a constant fire, which it wasn't). So basically, "your corpse doesn't go into the cemetery to wait for resurrection, it gets sent to the garbage dump and burns there".

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

If your argument is that the word isn’t never used then sure, I’ll concede that, but the relevant concepts of eternal punishment and burning are very much there as I pointed out.