JoeB131
Diamond Member
No. I know why. Which is irrelevant. The point is Christianity isnt a rabbinical jewish religion. So why would you say "Jews dont believe in hell" any more than you would say "Hindus dont believe in Hell". Neither are Christians.
You have no more idea what Jews believe than you you do about Christians. All that survived the destruction of the Temple were the Pharisees. Judaism died.
"Why isnt Hell mentioned until the New testament" is as ignorant a question as "why doesnt Shinto mention the Apostle Paul"
A little bit of a problem with that argument. Jesus didn't claim to be the descendant of the sexy, sexy sun goddess Amaterasu...
He claimed to be the son of Yahweh, the vindictive thunder god of the Hebrews. all his claims to moral authority were that he was the messiah predicted in the Old Testament.
therefore, if his followers start claiming there is a Hell of eternal torment, they really should have some basis in the Old Testament. They don't. Even what is in the new testament is kind of vague, our image of Hell has more to do with Milton and Dante than Paul or Matthew.
But since the ignorant crackers in Jesus-Land never read any of those books and just take their Preacher's word for it, they are easy to keep in line with these threats.