The Genesis story say’s that God told Adam and Eve, that now they ate from the tree of life they must die, there was no mention of having a soul, or going to a heaven or hell, That idea came up years later.
Monavis
Yes.
In fact, the Old Testament (/Hebrew Bible) doesn’t really mention Hell, in the “going to Hell or Heaven” sense, at all:
I thought that might be the case. But I’m sure there are probably heart surgeons who smoke cigarettes, also.
Dante had Adam and Eve in Hell with the virtuous pagans until the Harrowing of Hell. (Wikipedia link) The Harrowing occurs before the action of the poem.
Dante does meet Adam in Heaven and gets ask questions such as, “Who was smarter you or Solomon?”
In Dante’s scheme, Limbo is the first circle of Hell. Virtuous pagans and unbaptized babies go there. They receive no punishment, except for the absence of God.
Note, however, that Limbo is only for people who died before they had an opportunity to become Christians. If you had an opportunity, and turned it down, you go down to Malebolgia, with the heretics and atheists. They get punished rather severely.
I don’t know if this is canon or just something that is taught to kids to encourage them to act politely, but I was always told in bible study that it is a sin to assume someone went to hell OR heaven unless the bible explicitly says so. I seem to vaguely remember some scriptural support for this but I could be mistaken.
Btw, the WGN preacher didn’t happen to be a thin older man with a chalkboard, did he?
If so, it was Les Feldick.
I know of forty-two children who might call Yahweh malicious, were they not busy being torn apart by she-bears.