Hostage to fear

[Spacetime]

No, sheol and gehenna are not exactly the same...gehenna is what we would refer to as hell today.

However, are there some further distinctions about them you care to make?

MY point was that as a Jew, Jesus grew up within a culture that had certain ideas about life after death that are consistent with the Christian view of Hell.

And, since Jesus was God, He was in a position to speak authoritatively on the matter of judgement of the righteous and unrighteous.

I'm really reaching now to see your posts as quantitative. I mean, really reaching.

/sigh/ Try to at least see the cliff before you walk right over it, especially when a deeper study into your own "belief system" demands it.

You just put Sheol and Gehenna on the same team. Have you *no* understanding of literary context or history?

One is a concept. The other is a geographic place on Earth that became a concept through interpretation *with no... ...zero* understanding of the other, because of that interpretation's limited historical understanding due to a political & geographic change.

It's becoming clearer that you've not studied the history and development of your own faith. I'm sorry, man. I just pushed off from the shores you are trying to argue from, when you're still out to sea... eye-glass to your face and a ship-hand dropping knots in the water.

I'm not claiming I know a lot or really anything compared to *real* theologians or historians... but I've done my due diligence in trying to make myself conform to your god's demands. In fact... much more than my due diligence.