We have several delightfully hellish phrases in English: “Oh, hell!” “The hell you say.” “It’s a hell of a lot of work.” And of course: “Go to hell.” However, none of them have anything to do with an ...

In our English translations, three different Greek words are mixed together and translated using the single word “hell.” “Gehenna” is used 12 times in the New Testament, and is translated “hell” all ...

“The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all nations that forget God” (Psalms 9:17). In the early church, the New Testament church, Christ’s church, the doctrine of hell seems to have been a basic ...

The recent dispute over whether Pope Francis denied the existence of hell in an interview attracted wide attention. This isn’t surprising, since the belief in an afterlife, where the virtuous are ...