[Mrs. Don-o]

"Our popular concept of hell is Roman Catholic tradition, pure and simple"

Cuz God's allowed His entire flock to be misled on matters of eternal significance for millennia.

By your reading, FNU, we're obliged to conclude that the Holy Spirit's comatose. Or doesn't want to get involved. Or something.

[sparklite2]

Cuz God’s allowed His entire flock to be misled on matters of eternal significance for millennia.

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“If you believe anything long enough,
it must be true.”

[FNU LNU]

Gehenna wasn’t of eternal significance. All 12 times the word occurs in the Bible, it’s in reference to the destruction of Jerusalem in the first century.

As far as the Holy Spirit is concerned, he used the word Gehenna. The Roman Catholic Church didn’t use the word “Hell” until the 16th Century. That word meant “a cover;” it’s the root of our word “helmet.” The idea of eternal conscious torment was loaded onto that word to get the Roman Catholic concept. None of this originated with me, but can be read in serious lexical scholars.

But no one’s going to make you study the subject seriously.