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Interpretatio is way simpler than monotheist theology (lemmy.world)
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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Dude, thanks for sharing!

I am learning a lot.

One question that I do wonder about a lot is: did early Christians believe that their pagan friends and family would burn in hell?

My understanding is that hell (as we know it) was a much later invention.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Always! I love sharing what bits and pieces I've picked up over the years!

I'm honestly not sure what the relation of early Christian theology is wrt hell as we would understand it in the modern day. I know by the 4th century it was a 'thing', but other than that, I'm afraid I don't have an answer.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There are many aspects of Christianity today that would be unrecognizable to early Christians, but belief in hell probably isn't.

There are the usual caveats about when passages of the Bible were actually written - the canonical new testament wasn't solidified until long after when Jesus was supposed to have lived, and it's understood even among Christian scholars that books attributed to one author (like the gospels) actually draw from multiple earlier texts.

All that said, in Luke Jesus tells a parable about a rich man in hell asking a poor man in heaven to go and warn his friends so they don't also end up in hell.