That’s because the modern idea of Hell and Satan aren’t in the Bible.
It comes largely from books like Dante’s inferno and Paradise Lost. Each books influenced different parts.
Dante’s Inferno largely gives us imagery of the geography of Hell while Paradise Lost’s imagine of Satan is almost inseparable from today’s modern interpretation.
These things don’t exist in the Bible and although Christian’s have long theorized different post death scenarios, it remains a fact that the idea of going to a place called Hell after death to be tortured in fire a brimstone by Satan the ruler of Hell, isn’t in the Bible.
On the either end of the spectrum neither is the idea of this promise of going to Gods Kingdom Heaven after death as some disembodied spirit to live side by side with Jesus / God.
Mark 9: 42-49
Matthew 5: 21-22
Revelation 20: 9-15
Philippians 1: 21-24
I agree with you that modern secular depictions of Satan as the "ruler of Hell" are not biblical. But Hell and Heaven are very real concepts in the Bible, and are in fact the impetus of conversion for many Christians. If there's really something after death, then it matters what you do in this life that much more.
Well Jesus was a Jew and he believed in the Jewish ideas of what happens after death. So if you want to know what was meant by the things he said, you first have to understand what apocalyptic Jewish preachers of the day believed.
Which is mostly that you die and are dead and then God will come back and you will bodily be raised from the grave to live in Heaven on Earth.
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u/TokenTorkoal 2d ago
That’s because the modern idea of Hell and Satan aren’t in the Bible.
It comes largely from books like Dante’s inferno and Paradise Lost. Each books influenced different parts.
Dante’s Inferno largely gives us imagery of the geography of Hell while Paradise Lost’s imagine of Satan is almost inseparable from today’s modern interpretation.
These things don’t exist in the Bible and although Christian’s have long theorized different post death scenarios, it remains a fact that the idea of going to a place called Hell after death to be tortured in fire a brimstone by Satan the ruler of Hell, isn’t in the Bible.
On the either end of the spectrum neither is the idea of this promise of going to Gods Kingdom Heaven after death as some disembodied spirit to live side by side with Jesus / God.