11-23-2003, 06:31 AM
Jimmy,
I don't know much about it really, especially from an Aramaic perspective. I have been told that gehenna or gehinnom is a place that has to do with burning and judgement. I come from a baptist christian background, and I was always taught that hell is a burning place where people who don't know "Jesus" are going to burn forever. Now, I am not so sure about that. I do know it is not a place where I want to go, ever.
Also, from the little I've studied on Rabbinic tradition, it seems it may be a place of judgement that some are destroyed in, and some get out of, after their amount of sin has been paid for. I know, that sounds like purgatory sort of, but its not really the same concept I don't think.
Any thoughts from the Church of the East position on this, or from the Aramaic?
MGer
I don't know much about it really, especially from an Aramaic perspective. I have been told that gehenna or gehinnom is a place that has to do with burning and judgement. I come from a baptist christian background, and I was always taught that hell is a burning place where people who don't know "Jesus" are going to burn forever. Now, I am not so sure about that. I do know it is not a place where I want to go, ever.
Also, from the little I've studied on Rabbinic tradition, it seems it may be a place of judgement that some are destroyed in, and some get out of, after their amount of sin has been paid for. I know, that sounds like purgatory sort of, but its not really the same concept I don't think.
Any thoughts from the Church of the East position on this, or from the Aramaic?
MGer
Matt. 5:17-19.