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 ...

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman (during His Anglican days) commented : Our Savior, as we suppose, did not go to the abyss assigned to the fallen angels, but to those mysterious mansions where the ...

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 ...

Before Christianity and Islam described Hell as eternal fire, Judaism offered a very different view. This video explores the concepts of Sheol and Gehenna, and how they shaped the world’s ...

“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 ...

Judaism does have views on the afterlife. However, unlike in some other religions, no one view on life after death has ever been officially agreed upon in the Jewish faith. There will be a physical ...