# Praying to God to reveal himself....

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**Created:** [May 21, 2013, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praying-to-god-to-reveal-himself/658910 "2013-05-21T09:48:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mellontikos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@Mellontikos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellontikos)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/praying-to-god-to-reveal-himself/658910/41 "2013-05-22T04:10:43Z")

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I haven’t checked out this board in ages. Interesting thread though.

The concept of hell does not exist either in the original Hebrew, nor the original Greek texts.

A bunch of vague ideas on the afterlife were collected and grouped as “heaven” and “hell”

Most of it is from the Greek concept of Hades.

Although I believe in God, I’m almost sure hell doesn’t exist at all. It seems the annihilationist interpretation is the closest to the original texts.

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