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Is this secular AND biblical proof that hell is real?

http://bibleatlas.org/valley_of_slaughter.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Is this proof that hell is real? (That is "real" as in "a real physical location here on earth" Not a miraculous place where miraculous souls are miracously kept concious and miraculously tortured for ever.)

The links I provide go on to describe Tophet, a place IN the Valley of the Sons of Hinnom (aka "Gehenna.")

It's easy to see how one might MISTRANSLATE this valley of death and horror as the "classic" "pitchforks and demons under the ground torturing for ever).

This is assuming that our ancestors WEREN'T more advanced in knowledge than we are today.

Back then, "life" and "death" were a lot less well understood than they are today. People "died" ... and then "came back to life" all the time.

It's easy to get swept up in a story. A few accidents and bad luck might get someone to think the world is out to get them... and when their friend "isn't breathing" anymore and isn't moving... it's easy to THINK he's dead...

When he actually isn't and is just stone dead DRUNK with a weak pulse and nearly inperceptable breathing.

Because of this, people "knew" that people "came back to life" all the time.

It was disturbing.

So as a CAUTION to PREVENT such disturbing things, they invented all sorts of ways of "properly" burying the dead. Elaborate "respectful" ways of burying that were meant to KEEP the dead ... DEAD.

In such a culture, throwing the corpse on the trash was a HUGE no-no.... and

Update:

BURNING the corpse was EVEN WORSE.

With the body buried, you're almost PRESERVING the corpse for when it might come back to life.

But once you burn something, it STAYS burned up... FOR EVER.

"Eternally" burned doesn't necessarily mean CONSTANT burning. It COULD be a one-time thing with permenent RESULTS.

So yeah. Eternal burned-up status of your corpse.

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  • 6 years ago

    The hell of the bible is imaginary . It was a good way to scare uneducated people into believing imaginary stories of imaginary beings .

    WRONG, a buried body rots over time .

  • ?
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    6 years ago

    Just down stream from the valley of Hinnom is the Dead Sea there are reports of it burning the Greeks called it the lake of asphalt.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    'lake of fire' is Satan's latest mixtape

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