Origin of — The Concept of Hell
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6 min readApr 3, 2022
The first documentation of hell was in Babylon around 300 AD. The Jews did not believe in a place of eternal torment or torture; consequently, hell is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, which is essentially the Old Testament.
Seems rather odd that nowhere in Genesis does God warn His creation of an everlasting torturous experience for the wicked. Could…
