(September 30, 2017 at 5:49 pm)Arsoo Wrote: I appreciate everyone's answers, but I am still wondering, why do you all think that hellish ndes seem to mention demonic creatures torturing them? I mean, that's not something religion teaches, and it is not something most people with asscociate with hell.
Arsoo,
You are probably being influenced by Zoroastrian beliefs, even though you may not have a clue as to what the Zoroastrian religion is.
"Then I saw the souls of those whom serpents sting and ever devour their tongues. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by those, whose soul suffers so severe a punishment?' Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said, thus: 'These are the souls of those liars and irreverent [or 'untruthful'] speakers who, in the world, spoke much falsehood and lies and profanity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Arda_Viraf
Most Christian and Islamic beliefs are based on Zoroastrian beliefs.
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/zoroastrianism/beliefs.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
