The Dans Go to Hell
Data Over Dogma
The Origins of the Afterlife
The concept of hell as a place of eternal conscious torment is something that's not anywhere in the Bible but was developed post biblically perhaps even as late as some of the early English literature or even pre-English literature Italian literature Dante and others. There's actually a lot to say about concepts of the afterlife in ancient Israel and early Judaism and an early Christianity and it's a little more complex than this black and whiteOh it wasn't in the Bible and then after the Bible it just popped up there's actually a long history of innovation on Concepts of the afterlife that go from nothing remotely approximating our concept of hell to how we understandHell today generally.
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