What the bible says Hell is like

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Forgive me for not having read all 71 pages of this thread, so this question may have already been raised.


Does the Bible actually teach permanent torture in Hell?


Most of the usual quotes go elsewhere. The story of Lazarus and Dives is an adaptation of a well known Egyptian story (with a very meaningful twist at the end). As such, it's no more of a guide to the afterlife than the Pied Piper of Hamelin is to pest removal methods. Stories of weeping at being cast out refer to an in-this-life missing of the our-world Kingdom of God. Things said in Revelation belong to a genre known as Jewish Apocalyptic writing, and as such aren't close to being literal.


Given that Judaism didn't (?doesn't) really do 'Torture Hell', Jesus would have to be introducing a new idea into Judaism without unpacking it at all- and that's emphatically not how he did things.

Jesus was a Pharisee.  He believed in all kinds of stuff that Sadducee Jews didn't believe in.