"Punishment reward" in the afterlife has existed in the earliest polytheism in written religion. Neither Jews or Christians or Muslims invented that trope.
Prior polytheism far older WORLDWIDE had their own ideas of reward in utopias after death, and underworld punishments if you did bad in life. "Hell" is simply another human invention as a myth trying to explain punishment. It merely has different details.
Even with Hinduism and Buddhism, the watered down version of reward/punishment in the next life are described with words like "Karma" and "reincarnation".
But all of that is really nothing but humans attempt at explaining how human behavior is regulated, but unfortunately done in the form of mythology and superstition.
The good news is there is no hell to burn in, just like you wont become a cockroach in the next life because some other person doesn't like you. This is the only life humans get. Our behaviors are best explained with the science of psychology, psychiatry, evolution, and neurology.
Prior polytheism far older WORLDWIDE had their own ideas of reward in utopias after death, and underworld punishments if you did bad in life. "Hell" is simply another human invention as a myth trying to explain punishment. It merely has different details.
Even with Hinduism and Buddhism, the watered down version of reward/punishment in the next life are described with words like "Karma" and "reincarnation".
But all of that is really nothing but humans attempt at explaining how human behavior is regulated, but unfortunately done in the form of mythology and superstition.
The good news is there is no hell to burn in, just like you wont become a cockroach in the next life because some other person doesn't like you. This is the only life humans get. Our behaviors are best explained with the science of psychology, psychiatry, evolution, and neurology.
