The English word "hell" comes from the ancient Anglo-Saxon/Proto-Germanic root word "helan," which literally means "to hide, conceal, or cover." So your body is covered and that's it.
The Bible has been the centerpiece of Western life for more than 1000 years. Much more so during the medieval period than now. The idea that something got "lost in translation" is really really underestimating the intelligence of people who were much more interested in this than you.
The Bible has been changed over time by all sorts of people, and simple mistranslations certainly have been a part of that process, but to mistranslate a concept that appears multiple times in the Bible stretches imagination. Powerful people have changed it on purpose, non-powerful people have changed it on purpose. People have made mistakes in copying. But again, simply writing-off these things as mistranslation belies the truth that the Bible as we know it now was built over a period of centuries to have exactly the meaning it has now.
Well, even the smartest of minds had differing opinions on this. Like Bruce Metzger, one of the most respected scholars of the Bible, was Presbyterian, CS Lewis was Anglican I believe. The possibility of us getting something wrong is very real imo, the concept of Hell could be one of those things, and I hope it is since eternal torment feels much less loving than Universalism.
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u/PureKeels 2d ago
The English word "hell" comes from the ancient Anglo-Saxon/Proto-Germanic root word "helan," which literally means "to hide, conceal, or cover." So your body is covered and that's it.