Hell

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A fresco in the cathedral of Ovieto. This fresco is called The Condemned. It was painted by Luca Signorelli, about 1450

In many religions, Hell is a place where souls of dead people go after their lives end, a different version of heaven.

Hell is the place where the souls of dead people go after their lives end, if they have done evil things in life.

In Christianity, Hell is the place where the souls of people go who did not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior or blasphemed the Holy Spirit of God.

In Islam hell is called Jahannam. It is a place of punishment, everyone will eventually be forgiven and taken to the Islamic Heaven (Jannah). The only sin that won't be forgiven is disbelief of God, or of belief in many gods.

Mormons think hell is a temporary place.

The concept of Hell in Christianity comes from Genesis and the "casting out" of Lucifer. In being cast out, he was removed from the presence of God. Therefore, if taken in it's most literal sense, Hell, in Christianity, is separation from God. Stated another way, to the Christian mind being separated from God is to be in Hell.

[change] Some examples of Hell

• The Ancient Greeks believed in a Hell-like place in the underworld called Tartaros. The god Hades was the ruler of the underworld.
• In Buddhism Hell is a bad place and one of six worlds which all souls are born into.
• In Christianity Hell is the place where the souls of bad people go after death, where they have to suffer and wait for the Last Judgement. Some Christians say that a bad person is someone who does not worship Jesus, but others say that a bad person is someone who does bad things even if they do worship Jesus. An Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote in his Divine Comedy his visit to Hell with Vergilius Maro. They entered into Hell from a hole in Jerusalem which was believed to be a center of the world in the medieval time.
• In Shinto, Hell (Yomi) is similar to the Greek Hades, in that all souls go there, no matter their actions in life, to have a miserable existence forever.
• The word for hell in Hebrew is actually just "the grave," where people go when they die.