RE: Christian Hell vs. Other Hells?
January 12, 2016 at 4:29 pm
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2016 at 4:32 pm by Regina.)
(January 10, 2016 at 6:46 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The worse hell of all is the Islamic hell. You will be royally screwed if you end up there. It's to be avoided at all costs. Most people are probably thinking about the Islamic hell when they think of hell. It contains all kinds of horrible tortures.
I don't think the Islamic "Jahannam" (Hell) is actually any different, there have been all kinds of tortures also described in the Christian Hell as well. The only difference with Jahannam is that it's not considered to be the realm of Satan, but in description it's the same fiery place. Not surprising, Islam is a religion built almost entirely of appropriated little bits from earlier cultures. There's very little of it that's actually original.
That said, I had also heard before that some early Christians interpreted Hell as a cold and frozen realm. Not quite sure how they got to that from The Bible's description, unless maybe the early descriptions of Hell were at some point lost in translation? It's a possibility.
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