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The craziest thing about Hell is the fact that our perceptions of it are based entirely off of two works of fiction: Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost. Very few descriptions are given of Hell in the Bible, but the foundations of it seem to be based on fire. Christian philosophers and poets then took this vague concept of Hell and combined it with the lowest level of the Greek Hades in order to form a more vivid mental image. The Satan figure is another intriguing concept because Satan was first mentioned in the Bible as an alligorical accuser. I believe (but I'm no expert) that our word for Satan stems from the Hebrew word for accuser, similar to a prosecuting attorney.
All this to say that while I believe that there is a hell, I also believe that our perceptions of it are more than a little off. Hopefully, I'll never have to find out.
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