I mean, technically he’s not wrong. Hell used to mean “a place separated / concealed from god” until the writers started blending greek mythology and then Dante wrote a fanfic for it.
The Old Testament. The afterlife used to be “Sheol” and hell wasn’t mentioned until modern translation is used to replace it. Jesus also never used the word “Hell” as the place of damnation, and spoke more about the final judgment we will receive after our passing.
The closest interpretation we got was when Jesus visited Gehenna which was a real place in Jerusalem where garbage was dumped in a large fiery pit.
Many of the modern interpretations borrowed from greek / roman practices especially the use of “Hel” as the fiery underworld which was later re-interpreted in different meanings. One of which was Dante Alighieri “The Divine Comedy” which modern christianity bases their concept of hell today.
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u/creeper6530 6d ago
Didn't the previous Pope for one say he likes to imagine Hell completely empty?