Now...

...people love to say Jesus talked about "Hel" more than anybody else in the Bible. Actually, he talked about Gehennah and Hades, and then much later we translated it "hell", which comes from "Hel". Hel was the Norse, mythological goddess of the dead. Furthermore, I can definitely demonstrate that almost all these supposed references to "Hel" by Jesus are not nearly as conclusive as people want to think. Even Francis Chan, in "Erasing Hell" admits this fact - and he is arguing in FAVOUR of the doctrine of eternal conscious torment (or, at least, as in favour of it as he can be - even he admits he hates the thing; he just thinks it is a necessary evil). For example, "where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched"? That is a reference to the last verse of Isaiah; and THAT verse is NOT depicting eternal conscious torment AT ALL! Rather, the fact that certain people would not receive an honourable burial - and that was an EXTREMELY important thing to a Jew.

Love,

Daniel