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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.

16 days ago
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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. It refers to 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.

16 days ago
1 score