Bible Question: Why does the Old Testament leave out any specific references to Hell? |
Bible Answer: josh, For the same reason it does not speak of an afterlife in heaven. The concept of an afterlife was a late deveolpment in Jewish theology. At the time of Christ the Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead and an afterlife, but many Jews,including the Sadducees still did not. The first significant mention of a belief in the after life appears in the period of the Macabees, not that long before the advent of Christ. Emmaus |
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