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Lord Alucard Ere Casanova
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 Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:35 pm
Recently I have noticed that many different people have different things to say about where "Hell" came from.
My Pop insists that "Hell" refers to an old garbage dump in which waste was burned by people a long time ago in some culture, basically saying that anyone who doesn't believe in Christ gets to go into the trash. My Pop is old and imaginative so it's hard to say whether he found that out through research, someone told him so a long time ago, or if it just came to him in a dream.
Other stories I've heard about what inspired Hell include a valley, the Underworld, the Norse Goddess "Hel", and of course there are certain Wiccans who insist their "Summarland?" led to the belief of a place called Hell.
Personally I think, assuming the viewpoint of a non-believer at the moment, what inspired Hell was simply something. It was to long ago to have any evidence left today of what might have inspired it. The missing information include: The individual who coined the idea, the method in which whatever belief met with previously mentioned individual, and proof that the individual used said belief to create Hell. However it is also possible that the people mentioning these claims have simply failed to provide that information.
I'm curious about the opinions of others, so what do you think of all this?
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:43 am
The idea of Hell was basically a synthesis of Sheol, Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna.
Sheol in Judaism was where everyone went when they died. Didn't matter who you were, this is where you'd go until the day of resurrection when the Jewish Messiah would arrive. YHVH would weed out were his people and the righteous and the Hebrews would rule over the earth with the righteous Gentile/non-Jews as their servants. The wicked would end up being destroyed.
Hades is very similar to Sheol except that it was for the average person. If you weren't a great hero, weren't wicked, or didn't have special blessings from the gods, you went here.
Tartarus was where you went when you did something extremely wicked or if you pissed off the gods. The Gods would dole out impossible tasks as punishments that the wicked would have to suffer for all eternity.
Gehenna was the burning trash heap. Jesus is attributed to saying that the wicked would end up in Gehenna after the day of resurrection, meaning the wicked and unrepentant were no better than trash.
Seeing how Christianity is a synthesis of Greek and Hebrew thought and philosophy, it's no wonder that these terms got synthesis together and became what we know of as "Hell" today.
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Lord Alucard Ere Casanova
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:32 am
That all makes sense and explains the multiple theories. Thanks, captain.
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