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Originally Posted by Bluegreen
The Hell of the OT by whatever name, I think was used as a tool to frighten people into following the laws of Jehovah.
It is still being used by many Christians.
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It is interesting you would share this Bluegreen because the Christian hell is not in the Old Testament or Jewish text. Judaism does not believe in hell. What has been translated from the OT, the word Sheol, just means grave;
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Sheol (play /ˈʃiːoʊl/ shee-ohl or /ˈʃiːəl/ shee-əl; Hebrew שְׁאוֹל Šʾôl) is the "grave", "pit", or "abyss" in Hebrew.[1][2] She'ol[3] is the earliest conception of the afterlife in the Jewish scriptures. It is a place of darkness to which all dead go, regardless of the moral choices made in life, and where they are "removed from the light of God" (see the Book of Job). In the Tanakh sheol is the common destination of both the righteous and the unrighteous flesh, as recounted in Ecclesiastes and Job.
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In Judaism as it was explained to me all men will stand before God, and all will receive mercy...not torment.