After Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, did he “Descend into Hell,” as millions of Christians recite during weekly church services in The Apostles’ Creed? Nearly 2,000 years of Christian tradition ...

In the New Testament, this physical, earthly location is called Gehenna, and becomes a symbol of postmortem, other-worldly ...

Charles Pope said. He said 21 of the 38 parables in the Gospels are about hell (often referred to as Gehenna) — including the rich man and Lazarus, the wise and foolish virgins, the weeds and ...

Gehenna developed as an idea of a place of punishment for those who had lived immoral lives. It is the Jewish equivalent of the Christian Hell. As these concepts developed, Sheol came to be ...

He said 21 of the 38 parables in the Gospels are about hell (often referred to as Gehenna) — including the rich man and Lazarus, the wise and foolish virgins, the weeds and the wheat ...