is there a hell in Judaism? If not, then why is it in Christian theology (very prominently)?

The idea of eternal damnation (among many other things you find in Christian doctrine) comes from the Mediterranean pagan religions popular around the time Christianity became a religion. There is no hell in Judaism, nor a heaven the way Christians portray it, either (certainly not a place reserved only for people who follow a certain religion).

The threats of "sheol" in the Bible are, literally, the grave. Nothing is more precious in Judaism than life, and nothing more threatening than having life taken away. There is no discussion of an afterlife in Torah, and the speculative hints in the Prophets are not enough to concoct the sort of vivid imagery that Christians and Muslims seemingly obsess over.

"Satan" is a different concept in Judaism. It's not an adversary against G-d (that would be a polytheistic belief), but rather a ruse to test Jews' obedience to our side of the covenantal bargain.

And, as a nation, Jews have never turned from G-d. Following a polytheistic religion with a mangod would be turning away, at least in my mind. We have Torah and it continues to be a source of inspiration and multilayered instruction on morality, and, for us at least, the only path to connect with the divine.

Jewish answer: there is no "eternal torment" in Judaism and HaSatan is NOT a fallen angel that tempts everyone off the path.

there are many views because the afterlife isn't described in Judaism. Most Jews don't focus on the afterlife, we let G-d worry about that. Jews focus on the here-and-now: keeping G-d's commandments, studying Torah, caring for others and helping to repair the world.

Some Jews believe that when someone dies and they are righteous, we go to join G-d immediately. If we aren't righteous they spend a short time away from G-d.

Some Jews believe that we enter a sleep-like state until the Messiah/Messianic age and then join in the new world to come.

Some Jews believe in reincarnation until the Messiah/Messianic age or until one becomes righteous enough to join G-d.

Jews do NOT believe in an eternal torment/hell. That would not be part of the righteous plan of a loving G-d. There is NO discussion or description of “hell” in the Jewish Tanakh. Some believe the utmost in evil souls simply cease to exist

Yes. Just as the Jewish choose not to call God by name, they have an aversion to using the terminology "Hell". "Sheol" or "Hades" are the Hebrew words for the place of the dead; the underworld. King Saul asked the witch of Endor to bring up Samuel the prophet to advise him. Again, the place is alluded to and not named. The same goes for Jonah when he was in the belly of the great fish (not a whale). Jonah, chapter 2; "I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever" indicating a prison of sorts. Jesus Christ (God), who was much more learned than Moses, expanded on humanities knowledge of the afterlife and revealed this in the story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16: 19- 31). The underworld was divided into two segments, comfortable Abraham's bosom and a fiery Hell. The two were divided by a great gulf. Those in Abraham's bosom were waiting for Messiah to pay the price for sin and escort them to heaven, which Jesus did. He resurrected them on the same day he was and they roamed the streets of Jerusalem for the 40 days Jesus spent with the Apostles before his ascension into Heaven. When the Holy Spirit visited me on January 30, 1984, instead of wasting a lot of words trying to convince me, he just took me on a guided tour of Hell. Only a fool would reject being saved from this fate. (Biblical definition of a fool: a man who says in his heart, "There is no God." Why would Israel forget God after witnessing the Miracles? Because they had no faith. Search the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and you will see the word does not appear in the Old Testament, except to state that they had none. Today, faith comes first; then the miracles. Note: the word "Hell" appears 31 times in the Old Testament of the King James version Bible which should correspond to the Law & Prophets and the 4 books of Moses used in Judaism.

The Hebrew Bible makes no reference to Heaven, Hell, or any devil character (aside from 'the adversary' which is highly debatable.) This is a Christian idea. At the time of the Tanakh's publication, the Jews probably had a belief that 'something' happened after death, but it was never very explicit. Whereas Christianity has a very high emphasis on working towards the afterlife, Hebrew tradition places its emphasis on following the rules in the earthly life.

In reference to the guy with the Deut. quote. That translation is obviously from a Christian Bible that includes the Old Testament. My Hebrew Bible (JPS trans) translates hell there as She'ol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol

in case you don't get greater responses from our Jewish acquaintances, it extremely is advisable to repost this after sunset on Saturday (at present) - its the Sabbath and various are off-line until eventually after sunset. answer: some do, definite yet maximum sense that Christianity is unquestionably faraway from Judaism as a clean faith drawing near the divine from a distinctive path. Jews don't sense they're the sole ones which will finally end up with G-d so as that they don't sense they'd desire to transform all and sundry so maximum are high-quality with Christianity. Its whilst Christians twist the unique Hebrew writings to in high-quality condition into their faith - "proving" Jesus replace into the messiah by mistranslating what they call the previous testomony or insist that Jews would desire to transform. That does annoy a number of them.

The idea of a fiery hell is not a scriptural teaching and you can probably find that information in any encyclopaedia, Wikipedia or where ever you'd like. Also consider this. At Genesis 2:17 God stated to the first human Adam "But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die." The penalty for sin, according to God himself, is not an afterlife, nor a burning hell, but death, the opposite of life. If Adam faced a future of eternal torment, God surely would have told him.

As for the practice of burning people, this is so foreign to God that when the ancient nation of Israel drifted so far from true worship and took up pagan practices which included burning their children in fire notice God's response at Jeremiah 32:35 "Furthermore, they built the high places of Ba′al that are in the valley of the son of Hin′nom, in order to make their sons and their daughters pass through [the fire] to Mo′lech, a thing that I did not command them, neither did it come up into my heart to do this detestable thing, for the purpose of making Judah sin."

Notice that such a practice was a thing that never 'came up into my heart do do this detestable thing'.

Where are the Dead? http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teac...

From the publication, What Does The Bible Really Teach?

you're assuming that christianity has anything to do with judaism other than cribbing its scripture for atmosphere. christianity has no theological connection to judaism, it's a salvation mystery religion based on the cults of horus, mithras, and dionysus, among others.

jesus is literally a sacrificial sun god right out of pagan mythology. everything about him and his teachings comes from pagan sources, all the way down to being called the 'lamb of god'.

heaven and hell are key components of salvation mysteries, since they are the incentives that drive the need for the salvation. it's not jewish in the least, and is in fact contrary to jewish beliefs.

hell certainly didnt exist until Jesus's time. before that there was no place created.

satan was cast down at the time of Jesus and perhaps hell was created then to bind satan until the end (judgement day).

it matters not to me whether hell is an eternal thing after judgement or just oblivion, it isnt a place I would want to go.

True, Jewish have very little on the afterlife. They did have some kind of understanding of heaven as we see about how Abraham thought in Hebrews and also the parables of Jesus point to that.

much understanding was shrouded in the OT in obscure symbolic language so they didnt have correct views on alot of things. NT teachings clear all those misunderstandings up. NT does it in a way that we KNOW for certain it is so. it become obvious.

YES YOu are right Bro

Judaism is actually deviated from its correct Path od DIVine Message

But Remember Christianity is Also deviaed

God sent JEsus For making Jews to come at path

But Jesus Followers also got deviated ( christians)

So now we should believe on Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

Plz dont mInd i just gave u a suggestion

PLzz think about it and research for it

Deu 32:22 For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Isa 66:24 And they will go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have sinned against Me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be put out; and they will be an object of disgust to all flesh.

The Psalms are full of references to hell. In fact I have found so many references to hell in the Old Testament they are too numerous for me to write here.

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