Hell
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In many religions, Hell is a place where souls of dead people go after their lives end.
In plenty of other religions, including Christianity, Hell is a place where the souls of dead people go after their lives end, if they have done evil things in life, and did not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior or blasphemed the holy spirit of god.
In Islam hell is called Jahannam. It is a place of punishment, everyone will eventually be forgiven and taken to the Islamic Heaven (Jannah). The only sin that won't be forgiven is disbelief of God, or of belief in many gods.
In mormonism hell is a temporary place even though in the bible it says it will last for eternity.
[edit] Some examples of Hell
- The Ancient Greeks believed in a Hell-like place in the underworld called Tartaros. The god Hades was the ruler of the underworld.
- In Christianity Hell is the place where the souls of bad people go after death, where they have to suffer and wait for the Last Judgement. Some Christians say that a bad person is someone who does not worship Jesus, but others say that a bad person is someone who does bad things even if they do worship Jesus. An Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote in his Divine Comedy his visit to Hell with Vergilius Maro. They entered into Hell from a hole in Jerusalem which was believed to be a center of the world in the medieval time.
- In Buddhism Hell is a bad place and one of six worlds which all souls are born into.
- The word for hell in Hebrew is actually just "the grave," where people go when they die.
There are also some towns named "Hell", but these towns are not bad places that bad people's souls go when they die.
