Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
C.A. Cook (coreycook12@email.msn.com)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 00:37:37 -0500
loukas wrote:
>on a slightly unrelated note, the now traditional concept of hell as a
>place of eternal damnation, pain, suffering, fire, brimstone, blah blah
>blah.. is never actually mentioned in the bible as that. Instead it is
>merely, a place where people who dont want to be with God go and do their
>own thing(and for some the abscence of God is quite terrifying). And the
>hell of fire and little red devils came about from an association with
>Gehenna (a place outside Jerusalem i believe where garbage was burned).
>
>can anyone back me up on this? or at least point out the errors of that, i
>have yet to find the source where i first learned about this.
Kind of right, kind of wrong. The idea of hell has been cobbled together
from several sources. It doesn't really matter.
CA Cook, LF
coreycook12@email.msn.com