Ref. Post #1: Hell is temporary. According to the biblical fairy tale dead people go to one of three places: hell; the sea; or death. The good news is that all of those places are temporary and everyone will get out on Judgment Day. And even if a person has been in hell he can still get into the gaudy bejeweled golden cube called New Jerusalem if he's a member of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Otherwise he will be tossed into the lake of fire, which is eternal.
Now if a person is a muslim he can go to hell after Judgment Day where he will be tortured forever. Islamic hell sucks big time.
The Zoroastrians believe that an angel judges dead people and assigns the bad ones to hell on a temporary basis until Judgment Day. The God character then renders final judgment and will either let the person into heaven or else throw him into an eternal purgatory. The New Testament copied that with a minor change or two.
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/zoroastrianism/beliefs.asp
Now if a person is a muslim he can go to hell after Judgment Day where he will be tortured forever. Islamic hell sucks big time.
The Zoroastrians believe that an angel judges dead people and assigns the bad ones to hell on a temporary basis until Judgment Day. The God character then renders final judgment and will either let the person into heaven or else throw him into an eternal purgatory. The New Testament copied that with a minor change or two.
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/zoroastrianism/beliefs.asp
