2007-06-14 01:58:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry but you all missed what I was trying to get at, so I'm assuming I was not clear enough.
2007-06-14 09:08:14 · update #1
The Greek word "gehenna" was the translation from the Hebrew word "gueh hin-nom" (Valley of Hinnon). It was mistranslated as hell the truth is that the Hebrew word was used in regard to the trash dump-site. The 1800's doctrine of hell that the church adopted and we all know today is based on Dante's "The Divine Comedy".
2007-06-14 02:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by Millie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she’ohl′ and its Greek equivalent hai′des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind.
The idea of suffering after death is found among the pagan religious teachings of ancient peoples in Babylon and Egypt. Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs depicted the “nether world . . . as a place full of horrors, . . . presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.” Although ancient Egyptian religious texts do not teach that the burning of any individual victim would go on forever, they do portray the “Other World” as featuring “pits of fire” for “the damned.”—The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, by Morris Jastrow, Jr., 1898, p. 581
2007-06-14 09:01:21 · answer #2 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God, as the First Cause of all creation, could not have gotten any ideas from humans!
And, if you believe this Universe is nothing but Chaos, there are plenty of humans to help you create hell!
2007-06-14 09:09:33 · answer #3 · answered by OkieDanCer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagine looking down on this earth from afar and seeing the daily slaughter of chickens, cattle, fish, humans, plant life, insects....this world is a killing field. I think this IS hell. Live a good life and one day pass into heaven.
2007-06-14 09:05:24 · answer #4 · answered by Dogbettor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes there is a hell and it is very real. as for humans giving God ideas, no He didn't need our help to decide on anything.
2007-06-14 09:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummmm lemmie think..........
No.
God knows everything, so humans couldn't teach him anything. Humans got the idea of Hell from God, not the other way around.
2007-06-14 09:09:49 · answer #6 · answered by jazzfrog66 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course not coz god creates the hell before he had created human beings
2007-06-14 09:06:33 · answer #7 · answered by ^SaLLy^ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, hell was created for the devil and his angels. It wasn't for us in the first place. But then man sinned and found his place. That is why Jesus came--to save us from our sins by his sacrifice on the cross.
2007-06-14 09:06:54 · answer #8 · answered by Daniel C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're certainly enough to make anyone think there ought to be a hell.
2007-06-14 09:02:30 · answer #9 · answered by jaicee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God needs no one to help him, & hell is not an ideal, it is a reality.
2007-06-14 09:04:18 · answer #10 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋