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Many people have trouble understanding how a loving God could send billions of people to unending torment, punished forever for believing the wrong things or living the wrong way. Many quietly fear they may be among the damned, and do everything they can to escape it.
But is eternal hell what the Bible actually teaches? Is it what Jesus himself believed? When you read the texts in their original Hebrew and Greek, rather than through centuries of translation and tradition, the answer turns out to be far stranger, and far more hopeful, than most of us were ever told.
In this free two-lecture course, Bart Ehrman traces where the idea of hell really came from: not from the Hebrew Bible, not from the lips of Jesus, but from a wider world of ideas that Christianity absorbed only generations after his death.
👉Sign up for Dr. Bart Ehrman’s course!
historyvalley--ehrman.thrivecart.com/what-the-hell
Many people have trouble understanding how a loving God could send billions of people to unending torment, punished forever for believing the wrong things or living the wrong way. Many quietly fear they may be among the damned, and do everything they can to escape it.
But is eternal hell what the Bible actually teaches? Is it what Jesus himself believed? When you read the texts in their original Hebrew and Greek, rather than through centuries of translation and tradition, the answer turns out to be far stranger, and far more hopeful, than most of us were ever told.
In this free two-lecture course, Bart Ehrman traces where the idea of hell really came from: not from the Hebrew Bible, not from the lips of Jesus, but from a wider world of ideas that Christianity absorbed only generations after his death.
