if Gehenna or the Valley of Hinnom. Is the Hell they were talking about?

Question

Then why was this not said so? and where do you get gnashing of teeth and torture from this? and where do some get that Hell is just the Grave where you are burried, seperated from Christ, then where does the soul go? yes your body is in the grave, where is the soul? where is Satan and his demons sent to if there is no Hell?

Answer 1

Gehenna or the Valley of Hinnom was the garbage dump.

Since the dead are conscience of nothing.
Since the soul dies when a person dies

Those said to gnashing their teeth, must be alive .

(Matthew 8:12) 12 whereas the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the darkness outside. There is where [their] weeping and the gnashing of [their] teeth will be.”

Speaking of what the angels would do with the “weeds” after having bound them up, Jesus added: “They will pitch them into the fiery furnace. There is where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth will be.” (Matt. 13:42) Remember that we are studying a parable. If the “wheat” and the “weeds” are symbolic, so are the “fiery furnace,” the “weeping” and the ‘gnashing of teeth.’ Matthew 25:41, 46 shows that “everlasting fire” symbolizes “everlasting cutting-off,” and Revelation (20:14; 21:8) says that the “lake of fire” means “the second death,” destruction with no hope of a resurrection. So the “weeds” are heading for destruction.

13 Since the “fiery furnace” symbolizes total destruction, the “weeping and the gnashing of their teeth” on the part of the “weeds” must take place before they are destroyed.

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Answer 2

Yes, it is.

Where they "get" the rest of that stuff is from a desire to threaten people into believing, and the hallucinations of the writer of Revelation.

But you may want to know why a trash dump was considered a place of 'torment' in the first place. This is why:

The only immortality that people have (in Jewish tradition) is in being remembered by others. The traditional Yahrzeit (the ceremony to mark the annual anniversary of the death of a person) is one way in which the memory of a deceased Jew is kept alive. The yahrzeit is observed by lighting a twenty-four hour candle the evening before the day of the yahrzeit, and most people recite the Kaddish and take a few moments of introspection and thought. Most congregations recite the name of the deceased whose yahrzeit is being observed during the Shabbat services closest to the date.

Naming one's children after a deceased relative is another way to keep alive the memory of the dead.

So....in summary, the whole idea of "Hell" as a place of eternal torment is a misinterpretation of the Jewish idea that being lost to memory is the worst thing that can happen to someone. Having one's body thrown onto the trash heap and burned rather then being buried in sanctified ground with a commemorative headstone, and not being remembered through ritual, prayer, or having one's name passed along to future generations - THAT is the original horror that has been changed into the idea of the soul in eternal torment in the flames of "Hell".

Answer 3

You need to look deeper to find the truth behind the legend. The Tophet, that place where the Israelites sacrificed humans to Yahweh (later identified by the name Molech, which was just a play on words...the Hebrew word "melak" or king transposed with the vowels of "bosheth", or "shameful thing") was in the Valley of Hinnom.

Answer 4

sweetie
some of the answers to a question of mine may help
I was very curious about all this myself just a few days ago
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AonqiczJ8Rk1_0Bo3Al1CDUgBgx.?qid=20070820174346AAdh6al

Answer 5

You do realize this is all just myth, right?

It is like asking "how does Santa deliver all those toys in one night?"

There are no answers, it is a myth.