I think I have an explanation for this concept, it's quite simple.
Since people at that time thought the earth was flat, they must have had believed in an upper floor and a lower floor. The sky to them was the upper floor. Since rain, clouds, rainbows all come from the sky, they concluded that Heaven was full of waterfalls, coolness, greeness and beauty.
Now where does the Hell concept come from? Why is it a place full of Fire? I think it has to do with Volcanoes.
People saw lavas and fire coming from below the earth. They witnessed floods, earthquakes and saw the earth cracks. So they assumed that whatever was under the earth, was EVIL and destructive. They named it Hell, and assimilated it with Fire.
Since our ancestors knew little about science, they resorted to a metaphysical explanation such as Heaven and Hell. And that concept was quite satisfactory to them. The concept is sitll alive.
Do you agree with my analogy?
2007-05-15
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