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Originally posted by sacX
Now in mainstream Christianity Hell is more "an apartness from God", kind of like the old interpretation of purgatory.
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Actually it is more in line with the original Jewish concept called "Sheol". Which is the way it should have always been.
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Sheol was as far from God's presence as was possible. (your "apartness from god") Human "existence" there, after death, was mere shadow existence - normal relationships and communication, which for the Old Testament define humanity, are impossible.
She'ol is the commonest word for the "world" of the dead in Hebrew. It is often paralleled with "death" (mawet) and sometimes called the "pit" (shachat).
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Sheol was twisted into the concept of hell.