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Before Dante and Milton, what did people assume hell was like?

>> No.7197663

They thought it was good.

>> No.7197665

>>7197656
Matthew 13:50 “furnace of fire…weeping and gnashing of teeth”
Mark 9:48 “where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched”
Revelation 14:10 “he will be tormented with fire and brimstone”

>> No.7197670

>Before Aquinas and Augustine, what did people assume hell was like?
Fixed that for ya

>> No.7197674

>>7197656
a separation from god

>> No.7197676

>>7197656
fire and brimstone

>> No.7197678

>>7197656
Very thetic.
:^)

>> No.7197713

>>7197678
anesthetic.

>> No.7197767
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>>7197674
>separation from god
That's mostly a modern reinterpretation because people aren't wowed by special effects and fire and brimstone any more.

>> No.7197777

>>7197674
I'm pretty sure the Eastern Church still teaches this.

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>>7197674
>>7197767
>>7197777
I grew up in a fundamentalist church in Alabama that taught that hell is just despair and separation from God.

>> No.7197801

>>7197793
sounds like everyday life...

>> No.7197807

>>7197793
I was taught that he'll would be a freezing cave of ice because it's the furthest place from God's warmth

>> No.7197884

what the fuck is brimstone

>> No.7197890
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>>7197656

like living in modern day london

>> No.7197893

>>7197807
Cheesy/10
even for god-speak

>> No.7198877

>>7197656
THE GREEK'S

>> No.7199343

>>7198877

Even the Jews?

>> No.7199353

Bro rule #1 of Dante's inferno - torture is an act of love. Contrapasso motherfucker

>> No.7199534

"According to scholary finds [1], Hell was originally conceived by the Jews to be a place where 'one crys as his feet get hot'."

[1] American Journal of Biblical Studies I:28 P:24.4

>> No.7199551

>>7197656
LIKE FIRE
HELLFIRE

>> No.7199657

>>7197893
read ur dantay