Why did God teach the existence of hell only after millennials of not mentinoing it in the Old Testaments?

Question

There was no mention of a fiery hell before the New Testaments.

Answer 1

"For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of Sheol,
And consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. "
Deuteronomy 32:22

Now I will rise,” says the LORD;

“ Now I will be exalted,
Now I will lift Myself up.
You shall conceive chaff,
You shall bring forth stubble;
Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;
Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done;
And you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
The sinners in Zion are afraid;
Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:

“ Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
Isaiah 33;11-14

Answer 2

There was mention of hell in all religious scriptures of all times for all peoples. But the concept of hell, or the life after death, is not in the interest of bad people who want to mobilize their masses for vicious purposes. So the scriptures were changed in due course obliterating the mentions of hell as well as the life after death. You see there is only a single mention of the hereafter in the Old testament, but lots in the new testament, and in the complete form in the Quran; which appears in the chronological order in history. And it must not be hard for you to discover that all religious scriputures other than Quran has undergone changes over the ages.

Answer 3

I believe the expression that best sums up god's reasoning is PSYCHE!!!! With all the crazy stuff god did to those wandering jews (his 'chosen people') didn't you kind of figure he'd damn the first couple of thousands of generations just for the hell of it? Or, if you want to get scientific, souls have a given density, if hell is a fixed system, it was probably cold before all those souls started pouring in. As the pressure increased, the temperature rose. The pressure and temperature are going to continue to rise until it is too great for the walls to hold and then all hell will break loose.

Answer 4

In case you didn't notice, the old testament times were totally spent under satan's evil dominion, while the earth was totally lacking in God's sanctifying grace.

This would make all of man's existence from the fall until the birth of Christ, one long hell on earth.

That was enough.

But since you asked, HELL is mentioned 70 times (by name) in the old testament, and it is referred to in other ways another 207 times.

Answer 5

They were losing fearful church followers and came up with hell to reinforce their hold. The main reason was and is for the negative energy people emit when they are fearful. Fear is a negative super power. This discovered, they pushed hell to hell and back. Prayers are also used and gush into a negative, hungry vortex. Sounds like a black hole, doesn't it? haha This feeds the same as the fear of hell.

Answer 6

A single Hebrew word is translated in different parts of the bible as 'pit', 'grave', and 'hell'. It means 'a hole in the ground'.

The Hellfire thing was ramped up to justify the Inquisitions, as was the idea that Satan was an entity of some sort.

Answer 7

have you read the old test. lately Deut32:22, Ps9:17, Ps116:3 and besides these you should take a look at the other 28 verses listed in the old test. about hell.

Answer 8

Because there is no hell....it's a pagan philosophy that some courrpt Christians used to 'scare the heathens straight'.

Answer 9

BINGO!

Jews don't believe in the Christian version of hell.
Secondly, we don't follow that "eternal damnation" BS either.

If you sin, the most you can get under Jewish law is 08 months in G-d's rehab unit...unless you are beyond salvation (few are).

Now someone get me a BLT dammit!

Answer 10

Try looking for Sheol in the old testament.
I wish people would learn some bible before they start criticizing.