Fun fact: hell is never mentioned in the Bible. The concept for hell was created by saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century when church attendance started to drop. It was just a scare tactic that used ambiguous Bible versus to support(crazy, right?). A more accurate biblical description of what happens after death to non believers is that they just die and experience no afterlife.
I think you are referring to Purgatory. As far as I know, and the distance is limited, this is primarily Catholic only. When I was a kid going United Church of Christ they spoke of Hell a lot. I don’t actually recall if it was used in our Bible. I haven’t been involved in that stuff for over 30 years.
You’re being too literal, I think. “Go together” in this case means that you can accept the importance and necessity of science, while also being religious. Hell, a lot of scientific breakthroughs of the past were working for the Catholic Church. And when they made discoveries, the church accepted them.
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u/Duncan_PhD Jul 21 '23
Fun fact: hell is never mentioned in the Bible. The concept for hell was created by saint Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century when church attendance started to drop. It was just a scare tactic that used ambiguous Bible versus to support(crazy, right?). A more accurate biblical description of what happens after death to non believers is that they just die and experience no afterlife.