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Jesus never used the word hell. The Aramaic word that appears in the earliest manuscripts is Gehenna. And Gehenna wasn't a spiritual concept at all. It was a physical location, the valley of Hinnom just outside Jerusalem. It was the city rubbish dump where fires burned continuously to consume waste. It was a place of decay, of transformation, of things being broken down and returned to their elements. When Jesus warned about Gehenna, he was using a vivid immediate metaphor that his audience would have instantly understood.
I see you didn't read the parable, which clearly isn't speaking about a physical place. Also, the Gospel of Luke I quoted from was written in Koine Greek and used the word hades.
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All I can see is you don't know what you're talking about. Have you ever heard of the discoveries at Nag Hammadi in 1945? The soul moves through these layered realms, facing rulers and illusions until it remembers its origin in the eternal light. Instead of a simple heaven and hell cosmology, the Nag Hamadi texts unveil a multiverse, a structure of realities overlapping and interwoven in which your soul's journey is a process of ascent, awakening, and return.
Modern science is only just beginning to catch up with what these ancient mystics taught. speaking now of multiple dimensions, parallel universes, and hidden layers of reality we cannot yet perceive.
So, you're just going to change the subject, now that you were proven wrong on the Aramaic thing?
You can't prove anything. You’re lucky intelligence isn’t measured in negative numbers.
How many times do I have to repeat myself? Gehenna is the Aramaic word that appears in the earliest manuscripts. The name Gehenna (or Gehennah) is an Aramaic word, contracted from ‘Ge Hinnom,’ i.e. Valley of Hinnom. The Himmon valley is an L-shaped downstream continuation of the Kidron valley, running immediately to the south and then west of the city walls of old Jerusalem. It is currently known as Wadi er-Rababeh. So, it's the Valley of Hinnom, a physical location just outside Jerusalem, which was the city's rubbish dump where fires burned continuously to consume waste. When Jesus warned about Gehenna, he was using a vivid metaphor that his audience would have instantly understood. He was talking about wasted lives.
Hell, as a word, did not come from the Bible. The word is Germanic in origin and is, ironically, tied to Norse mythology, as a goddess named Hel oversaw the dead in Norse myth. In ancient and early medieval mythology, it was common for the name of the deity of death to also be frequently used to describe the realm of the dead. You can find more details at the Historian's Hut.