• GreenTeaRedFlag [any]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Jews don’t necessarily believe in hell, and the closest thing they have to it is more like the sumerian or Greek afterlife than the hell modern Christians imagine. Prophets are also more common than you think, occurring in Etruscan and African cultures frequently. Satan is not big in judaism, far more a Christian thing. There are some similarities and it’s probably ideas were exchanged between the two faiths towards their founding, but you can’t say they just share ideology

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      10 months ago

      A lot of Christian sects also reject a firm notion of Hell. Most view purgatory and salvation as the path that the soul takes.

      It kind of goes against the entire notion of indiscriminate forgiveness and salvation if you just got cast into hell and got stuck there.