why is hell not mentioned in genesis?

Question

if god created it, then why not discuss it in the first part where it talks about creating everything?

diciple...
i am talking about literal hell, when does god say you will go to hell
or say i have created hell.....

genesis 37:35
does not mention hell

small but fierce...
i am talking about the word "hell"

not in genesis

Answer 1

Because the Hebrews did not believe in Hell.

Oh, by the by Sheol doesn't translate ti the word Hell.

Answer 2

My only response would be maybe you're expecting the Bible to be a handbook or manual to describe everything about God or about the earth or about Jewish or Christian faith. This attitude can be attributed as a response to the attitude of Protestant Christians who declared "Sola Scrittura", saying that only the Bible mattered in reguard to faith, completely ignoring the fact that before the Old Testament was written down, it was passed down orally in the community. This is called oral tradition. The same is true about the New Testament, it grew out of a believing community, which did not see the need to write down every little detail about Christian faith as the teaching that took place in the community would instruct others about these things.

Sheol of Judaism was a theological concept passed down and attested to in other areas of the old testament, just not the creation account, but Sheol was not the same as the Christian concept of "hell." Sheol was where all souls went after death.

As a Christian I personally don't think of heaven or hell in terms of physical places (where, do tell, could one find a place where God is not?) but rather as states... either the state of union with God (heaven) or of complete separation from God (can you imagine turning your back so completely on God due to your own free will that you couldn't complete your reason for existing... union with God... and therefore you continue to exist - because God still loves you - but you suffer forever because you've rejected that love). Christian hell is not a "place" God sends people out of revenge. It is a just and true judgement of the seperation that individual has already chosen through choosing sin. And there's my plug for the day.

Answer 3

Actually it is... see Genesis 37:35; Genesis 42:38; Genesis 44:29,31 for starters

Answer 4

ok so here is the answer... ok so u know how adam and eve where made??? well, first there where six days before adam and eve that he created the earth... sin didnt even inter the world until adam and eve ate of the tree as the devil tempted them to do... so he wouldnt talk about hell until there was some significance to do so... hope i helped!!!

Answer 5

Hell was created in 1988. Poetic license.

Answer 6

Many things about the spirit world were not known before Jesus came. "I am the light of the world," he said. We had hints of what was out there but it was like a dark room. When Christ came it was like turning on the light in that room. All the demons ran for cover like roaches.

Answer 7

anyone who eats of the tree will die, it didnt just mean a physical death but also a spiritual death through a separation of sin. besides the focus should be the creation, the real hell is only mentioned in revelation.

Answer 8

It isn't? please stand by.

Try Genesis;
38:35
42:38
44:29
44:31
Know this the word translated hell, is from the Hebrew, She'ol.
So just because your trans. may not use it here, it just shows that the translation you are using is not consistent.