Who The Hell Invented "Hell"?

who the hell invented hell? Hell is not in the Bible. Not the one you are scared of. The word does not appear in the oldest Hebrew scripture, not once. So where did it come from? This is the real, strange, and slightly ridiculous history of how hell got invented, borrowed, mistranslated, and escalated over a thousand years, and why the fear of it has been used to control people ever since. We follow the whole trail. The grey basement the earliest writers actually believed in. The Persian empire that hell was borrowed from. The four different words that got mashed into one scary word by translators. The real garbage valley outside Jerusalem that became the fire pit of the universe. The moment the punishment got quietly changed from three days to forever. And the medieval poem that painted the hell you still picture today. This is not a video about whether there is an afterlife. Nobody knows that. It is a video about who built the fear, and when, and why, and what it has been doing to people ever since. WHAT YOU WILL FIND OUT Why there is no hell in the oldest part of the Bible How the fiery afterlife was borrowed from ancient Persia The four different words hiding under the single word hell How a real garbage valley became the pit of hell Who changed the punishment from three days to eternity Why the fear of hell is the most effective control tool ever made CHAPTERS 0:00 Hell Is Not In The Bible 8:00 Why There Is No Hell In The Old Testament 10:00 How Hell Was Borrowed From Persia 13:15 The Four Words Hiding Under One Scary Word 16:45 How The Punishment Became Forever 19:20 The Medieval Poem That Invented The Hell You Picture 22:00 Why The Fear Of Hell Controls People 25:30 What The Fear Of Hell Does To Real People 34:00 There Is No Comfort Here, Only A Key 38:00 The Only Question That Actually Matters SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife Alan E. Bernstein, The Formation of Hell Mary Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism The scholarship on Sheol, Gehenna, and the Persian influence on Jewish thought is broad and well documented. Subscribe if you are ready to look at the thing you were trained never to look at. This video deals with fear, death, and religion. If you are struggling, please reach out to someone you trust. #Hell #Religion #History #Nietzsche #Philosophy #Christianity #Afterlife #FearOfDeath #Atheism #ReligiousHistory