bellgamin wrote:
"Hell" is not in the original languages of the Bible. In the NT, "hell" uses a pagan concept to translate a Greek word that transliterates to Strong's G1067 [geena] and inferentially refers to Ge-Hinnom (the valley of Tophet -- Jer 7.32, 19.6 et alia). Ge-hinnom was a literal place in Israel where they, at one time, practiced idolatrous human sacrifice. That site later became Jerusalem's city dump where they burned sewage, garbage, offal, and other waste.