Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week agoThe Epistle to the Romans and other Pauline epistles do seem to show that non-believers do generally go to hell.
Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week agoThe Epistle to the Romans and other Pauline epistles do seem to show that non-believers do generally go to hell.
socsa@piefed.social 1 week ago
Right but the classic Catholic interpretation of damnation is that there is a huge layer of purgatory between "hell" and "eternal torture" for those who are not wicked. It is only fairly recently that we've had this "straight to pitchforks and fire" concept of hell.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week ago
No, it’s the opposite. Purgatory is a new thing. It’s not mentioned in the Bible at all and only really came up in the last 1000 years. Not even the Eastern Orthodox believe in purgatory.