(April 25, 2012 at 5:30 am)Killman Wrote:(April 24, 2012 at 4:36 pm)Godschild Wrote: He is still alive.Also, correct me if I am wrong on this but wasn't the modern concept of hell basically non-existent until Jesus came along? That is a bit strange.
There have been movements prior to xtianity and the NT in the fold of Jews before the time of Christ. However, it was neither popular or believed in very well as the OT and Jews believe that the "sheol," the word translated as hell in the King James version of the NT, was just a hole in the ground, a grave. So, no, the idea of hell with flame and all that preceded the xtian movement by a few hundred years.
