Where does the idea of hell come from?

Question

I believe hell is mentioned in the bible but I don't think it is explained and said to be a lake of fire. So where did this idea come from?

Can somebody show me where in the bible it is called the "lake of fire" or something of the sort that describes it as such an inferno?

Answer 1

The original Biblical term for Hell in the Old Testament was actually Hates, the Greek "underworld". Unlike our contemporary hell (which is based largely on Dante's Inferno), Hates was not a place of torment. It was not overwhelmingly good or bad, it was just where people went after this life, unless they were an exceptional war hero or something, in which case they went to something similar to Heaven.

Answer 2

The lake of fire is written about in the end of Revelation. It is the second death. No one is in there yet. The first in the lake of fire is the beast & false prophet, then satan, then death & hell and then whoevers name is not found written in the books of life.

Jesus explained hell differently. One is outer darkness & nashing of teeth, one is a place with no spiritual drink & flames, I think there is different hells and places where the dead go & some that may be a place of rest. Those redeemed by the blood of the Lamb will go to heaven and are part of the first Resurrection. The rest where the dead who are in the sea or with the dead or in death & hell will stand before God at the last Resurrection for the Great White Throne Judgment.

Also there is the abyss (hell, bottomless pit) where satan is incarcerated during the Millinnium Reign of Christ

Answer 3

The idea of Hell came from Chrstianity. No such concept came from the Tanakh (the Jewish Bible) and anyone who says it did is reading a very bad translation. Judaism does not believe that you are responsible for the "sins" of Adam and Eve, to speak metaphorically. You also cannot atone for another persons sins and are responsible only for your own. Judaism also does not scare people into converting by saying "you will go to hell if you do bad things." We have a concept of Gehenna, in which the maximum stay is 12 months, where you atone for sins you did not atone for when you were alive and then are able to go up to Paradise.

The concept of Hell today came from Chrstianity and the book of Revelation.

Answer 4

Various Pagan sources for the imagery, but as C. S. Lewis once wrote, "The Dominical utterances (the words of Christ himself) about Hell, like all Dominical sayings, are addressed to the conscience and the will, not to our intellectual curiousity. When they have roused us into action by convincing us of a terrible possibility, they have done, probably, all they were intended to do..."

In another place, Lewis also wrote "The characteristic of lost souls is 'their rejection of everything that is not simply themselves.' The egoist tries to turn everything he meets into a province or appendage of himself. The taste for the *other*; that is, the very capacity for enjoying good, is quenched in him except in so far as his body still draws him into some rudimentary contact with an outer world.
Death remoes this last contact. The egoist has his wish - to live wholly in the self and to make the best of what he finds there. And what he finds there is Hell."

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Answer 5

REVELATION 20:10 IS WHERE YOU'LL FIND THE REFERENCE TO "THE LAKE OF FIRE". PLEASE READ ON.
Hell is a word used in the King James Version (as well as in the Catholic Douay Version and most older translations) to translate the Hebrew she’ohl′ and the Greek hai′des. In the King James Version the word “hell” is rendered from she’ohl′ 31 times and from hai′des 10 times. This version is not consistent, however, since she’ohl′ is also translated 31 times “grave” and 3 times “pit.” In the Douay Version she’ohl′ is rendered “hell” 64 times, “pit” once, and “death” once.

Both versions transliterated hai′des in the Christian Greek Scriptures in all ten of its occurrences, though the Greek word Ge′en·na (English, “Gehenna”) is rendered “hell” throughout, as is true of many other modern translations.
Tthe Greek word hai′des means “the unseen place.” Gehenna means “rubbish heap” and was a land fill area that constantly was burning to get rid of trash.
SO YOU SEE, SHE'OL OR THE PIT IS LITERALLY THE COMMON GRAVE OF MANKIND. GEHENNA AND HAIDES, A DUMP WHERE TRASH IS BURNED. THE LAKE OF FIRE, AGAIN, SYMBOLIC FOR A PLACE THAT DESTROYS COMPLETELY THAT WHICH IS PUT IN IT. NOTHING CAN SURVIVE IN FIRE.

Answer 6

in accordance to the classic Sumerians and Akkadians, the Earth became first settled with the aid of extraterrestrials stated as the Anunnaki (biblical Anachim) until now the fashioning of the "adamu", the extraterrestrial Anunnaki had to do complicated hard artwork themselves someplace in Africa. This became area of the ""Underworld", the decrease hemisphere of the globe. The artwork there became such that the Anunnaki toilers have been compelled to point a rebel. So, Enki, their chief scientist. formed the adamu ("primitive worker") to do the artwork with the aid of binding upon a sophisticated hominid their genetic image. The mines have been punishment to the ancients. Enkidu, the pal of Gilgamesh became condemned to it. The Underworld became additionally the area of Enki, the rival brother of Enlil who became head of Earth venture. the logo of Enki became the snake-like DNA double helix. He became additionally stated as the "serpent". This might desire to have began the assumption of hell. there's a non secular hell, yet it incredibly is yet another tale.

Answer 7

Its in the bible as a place where the unsaved go until the judgment, then they go to the lake of fire.

Answer 8

I think all the "jazzy" ideas in the Bible came from the Persians. They were highly literate and had a very colorful mythology.

Answer 9

It started with the Pagans; and then other religious people, notably people who call themselves Christian, came along and loved the idea, cause it explains what happens to souls who disagree with them.
There's a lot of pain in Hell. That pain will be suffered mostly by people who don't believe in Jesus, actually. And their suffering will continue forever. Their burning throats will gargle boiled blood repeatedly, they will itch and can't scratch, and they will have worms; and in every alley shrieks and hideous moans fill the putrid air...

Answer 10

From pyrophobic people and easily influenced minds. Why?

I just figure people can be as deceived by an idea as, say, the free-lotto. It brings a high chance of failure.