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  1. people.howstuffworks.com › hellA Short History of Hell - HowStuffWorks

    Apr 27, 2020 · In the New Testament, Jesus and his disciples introduce a new term for hell, the Hebrew word Gehenna. According to Jewish tradition, Gehenna was a valley outside of the city walls of Jerusalem that doubled as a trash dump, where garbage was continually burned.

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  3. sojo.net › articles › where-did-our-ideas-about-hellWhere Did Our Ideas About Hell Originate? - Sojourners

    Apr 18, 2018 · The earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible, around the eighth century B.C., described the afterlife as Sheol, a shadowy, silent pit where the souls of all the dead lingered in a minimal state...

  4. hermeneutics.stackexchange.com › questions › 73790genesis - A living soul cannot exist without a body (Gen 2:7 ...

    Jan 21, 2022 · It was only when the breath life came out of God and into the body. Therefore, the fusion of the body and the breath of life became a living soul. He did not create a soul and put it in the body.

  5. www.reddit.com › r › AskHistoriansOur current concept of Hell as a blazing inferno is based on ...

    This is the scene in which, according to medieval theology, Christ drags the patriarchs out of hell with him after the crucifixion--anyone who had been faithful to God but died before him. (They had been damned by original sin; Christ's atonement for that was timeline-sensitive).

  6. www.9marks.org › article › hellfire-and-brimstoneHellfire and Brimstone: Interpreting the New Testament’s ...

    Aug 20, 2010 · HOW DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT DESCRIBE HELL? In their recent little book What Is Hell?, Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson succinctly summarize what the Bible teaches about hell in the following five truths.[2] “Hell is punishment” (2 Thess. 1:5–10; Rev. 20:10–15).

  7. www.patheos.com › blogs › richardmurraySurveying the Early Church’s View of Hell - Patheos

    Aug 2, 2020 · Here is a quick historical survey of the EARLY CHURCH regarding their surprising beliefs about HELL: THE FIRST 500 YEARS: In the first five centuries there were six known theological schools.

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  9. earlychristianhistory.net › hellEarly Christian History / The Theology of Hell

    The theology of Hell actually grew probably starting in the 5th century, or perhaps later, in western Europe. The Gospel of Nicodemus, a grand early advanced vision of Hell, was in Latin and thus likely written in (and for) the central or western Empire.

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