Most Religion believe that there is hell, but how true is it. Does the people who popularized this word,"Hell" knows where it is located and how hot it is? Because most people just know hell and never read the bible, they have different thoughts about Hell. Let's find out in this article about Hell.

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How HOT is Hell?

The Bible says that the wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23). What does that really mean? Does it mean that sinners will all die, or does it mean that sinners will all live forever and be eternally tortured in never ending fire? There are many views on what happens in the hereafter and this newsletter attempts to take a very careful look at what the Bible (both Old and New Testaments) says about this subject.

In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word translated “hell” is “Sheol”. It is used 66 times in total, and half of the time it is also translated “grave”. The Jews in the Old Testament saw “Sheol” as the end result for everyone. They made no distinction between good or bad –all ended up in “Sheol”. The following examples are texts where “Sheol” has been translated differently.

Evil: (Psalms 9:17 KJV) The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Good: (Job 14:13 KJV) O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Evil: (Psalms 55:15 KJV) Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Good: (Psalms 6:5 KJV) For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

As we can see from these texts, if all were translated “grave”, the implication would be quite different. From Job 14:13, we see that Job wished he was in the grave (dead) because of all the difficulty he suffered. Is it logical to think that he wished he was in “hell” to be tormented eternally? He was already being “tormented” by the trial he was going through, so reason suggests that Job’s understanding of “Sheol” was the grave, death.

In the New Testament there are a few Greek words translated “Hell”: Gehenna, Hades and Tartaroo. Gehenna is of Hebrew origin meaning the Valley of Hinnom. In the time of Jesus, the Valley of Hinnom was used as the garbage dump of Jerusalem. Into it were

thrown all the filth and garbage of the city, including the dead bodies of animals and executed criminals. To consume all this, the fires burned constantly and the result was utter destruction.

“Hades” occurs 11 times in the New Testament, and in the King James translation, it is translated “hell” 10 times and “grave” once. The NIV translates the same word as “the depths”, “hell”, and “the grave”, and then in some cases, it doesn’t translate at all and leaves the word as “hades”. Hades is the equivalent word to “Sheol” in the Hebrew, and if we look at scriptures from both testaments, we can see where this application can be made.

(Psalms 16:10 NIV) because you will not abandon me to the grave (sheol), nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

(Acts 2:27 NIV) because you will not abandon me to the grave (hades), nor will you let your Holy One see decay. Acts 2:27 is quoting the scripture from Psalms 16:10, and is referring to Jesus.

The KJV translates both these words “hell”, but if this were the case, was Jesus in Hell being burned and tortured before he was resurrected?

Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is a place of suffering during afterlife where the wicked or unrighteous souls are punished. Hell is usually depicted a underground. Within Islam and Christianity, Hell is traditionally depicted as fiery and painful, inflicting guilt and suffering. Some other traditions, however, portray Hell as cold and gloomy. Existence after life is not concrete in Judaism and may be portrayed as a state of neutrality, an eternal nothingness ("sheol", often mis-translated as hell), simply non-life.

Some theologies of Hell offer graphic and gruesome detail (for example, Hindu Naraka). Religions with a linear divine history often depict Hell as endless (for example, see Hell in Christian beliefs). Religions with a cyclic history often depict Hell as an intermediary period between incarnations (for example, see Chinese Di Yu). Punishment in Hell typically corresponds to sins committed in life. Sometimes these distinctions are specific, with damned souls suffering for each wrong committed (see for example Plato's myth of Er or Dante's The Divine Comedy), and sometimes they are general, with sinners being relegated to one or more chamber of Hell or level of suffering (for example, Augustine of Hippo asserting that unbaptized infants, whom he believed to be deprived of Heaven, suffer less in Hell than unbaptized adults). In Islam and Christianity, however, faith and repentance play a larger role than actions in determining a soul's afterlife destiny.

Despite the common depictions of Hell as a fire, Dante's Inferno portrays the innermost (9th) circle of Hell as a frozen lake of blood and guilt.^[2] Hell is often portrayed as populated with demons, who torment the damned. Many are ruled by a death god, such as Nergal, the Hindu Yama, or concepts of the Christian Satan. In contrast to Hell, other general types of afterlives are abodes of the dead and paradises. Abodes of the dead are neutral places for all the dead (for example, see sheol), rather than prisons of punishment for sinners. A paradise is a happy afterlife for some or all the dead (for example, see heaven). Modern understandings of Hell often depict it abstractly, as a state of loss rather than as fiery torture literally under the ground.