Hell or Hades comes from this Mythology, is there any other  similarities?
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The fable of Adam and Eve and the apple comes from Pandora's Box.  The virgin birth comes from Zeus' amorous adventures such as impregnating someone when he turned himself into a shower of gold.  Those are just a couple of them.  Read some of the myths and you will start to recognize them.
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Language is an interesting thing.\n\nIt is quite possible to have two very, very similar sounding words with very different meanings.  Consider "heaven"  - would you get especially positive connotations from someone named "Evan" just because they sound the same?\n\nNo, we are not taught that the WORD "Hell" has negative connotations.  It is the CONCEPT, not the sounds.  Sounds are not magic, and where words do have magic it is from the meaning behind them, not the sounds.\n\nAnd if you are going to get hung up on sounds, hello comes not from "hell" but from "hallo", which sounds like Halo, which is a good thing, right?\n\nOf course from where I come from "hell" sounds more like "halo" than "hello"! But then, we're more likely to say "Howdy!" anyway.\n\nBTW, your URL looks like "heave no" to me.  I'd be inclined to think it was a natural anti-emetic, not a religious site.
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The Biblical View of 'Hell'\nIs eternity in an ever-burning inferno the fate of the wicked? Many assume that it is, but is that what the Bible says? To answer that question, we need to understand the four Hebrew and Greek words translated "hell" in most versions of the Bible.\nSheol is the Hebrew word translated "hell" throughout the Old Testament. It refers to "the state and abode of the dead; hence the grave in which the body rests . . ." (William Wilson, Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies, Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts, "Hell," p. 215). The Expository Dictionary of Bible Words explains, "Thus there are no references to eternal destiny but simply to the grave as the resting place of the bodies of all people . . ." (Lawrence O. Richards, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1985, p. 336).\nReflecting its true meaning, many more-recent Bible versions translate this word as simply "the grave" or leave it untranslated as Sheol.\nAmong those who knew that they were going to sheol-the grave, not an ever-burning inferno-were such men of faith as Jacob (Genesis 37:35), Job (Job 14:13), David (Psalm 88:3) and Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:10). Clearly, sheol does not refer to a place of eternal torment.\nGreek words translated 'hell'\nThe counterpart of sheol in the Greek language is hades, which also refers to the grave. In the four New Testament verses that quote Old Testament passages containing sheol, hades is used for sheol (Matthew 11:23; Luke 10:15; Acts 2:27, 31). As with sheol, hades is rendered as "the grave" or "death" or left untranslated as Hades in recent Bible versions.\nHades likewise does not refer to a place of fiery torment. Indeed, the apostle Peter refers to Christ Himself as having been in "Hades" (Acts 2:27, 31) or "hell" (King James Version), referring to the time He was entombed before His resurrection. Both words simply refer to the grave.\nA second Greek word, tartaroo, is also translated "hell" in the New Testament. This word is used only once in the Bible (2 Peter 2:4), where it refers to the place where the fallen angels, or demons, are restrained awaiting their judgment. The Expository Dictionary of Bible Words explains that tartaroo means "to confine in Tartaros" and that "Tartaros was the Greek name for the mythological abyss in which rebellious gods were confined" (p. 337). Peter used this reference to contemporary mythology to show that the sinning angels were "delivered . . . into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment." These fallen angels are in a condition or place of restraint awaiting their ultimate judgment for their rebellion against God and destructive influence on humanity.\nTartaros applies only to demons. Nowhere does tartaroo refer to a fiery hell in which people are punished after death.\nIt is only with the remaining word translated "hell"-the Greek word gehenna-that we see some elements people commonly associate with the traditional view of hell. However, this word also has significant differences from the popular concept of hell.\nGehenna "is derived from the Hebr[ew] _expression, ga-Hinnom, Valley of Hinnom . . . Religiously it was a place of idolatrous and human sacrifices . . . In order to put an end to these abominations, Josiah polluted it with human bones and other corruptions (2 Kgs. 23:10, 13, 14)" (Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary New Testament, AMG Publishers, Chattanooga, 1992, p. 360).\nThanks in large part to its evil reputation, this valley bordering Jerusalem came to be used as the city garbage dump. Trash was burned there, along with the bodies of dead animals and criminals. Fires day and night consumed the refuse.\nInferno to destroy the wicked\nGehenna is used 12 times in the Bible, with 11 of those recording Christ's words. When Jesus spoke of gehenna, His li
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Both will go to hell, and yes you will along with everybody else, including Christians. All go to hell at death.The original Hebrew word was Sheol and the Greek word was Hades, properly translated they mean: the grave or a pit.Another word also translated as hell was Gehenna(Greek),this is an actual place now known as the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem. This is a place that always had a fire and they burnt trash, animal carcasses, and live babies were sacrificed to molech the great owl god. Look at a map its on there. In Psalm 16:10, & 49:15 David knew he was going to hell (grave) and would be resurected from it.Many of the older Bibles such as Geneva properly translated these words as grave or pit. It is impossible to have three totally different words and translate them all as hell. In the 1600's when the KJV Bible was made ,the meaning of the word hell was to put in the ground so when they changed the wording to hell they understood what it meant.If you look up Gehenna in Websters dictionary today you will see it tells you the same thing I said. Apparently its to difficult for most Christians to actually look up the meaning of a word, they prefer to listen to the lies that their preacher spews from the pulpit. My God will put you in hell when you die,the grave, and regardless of your beliefs or how you lived you will be resurected for judgement. To receive eternal life you must know Christ as saviour, if not you will be thrown into the lake of fire Rev. 20:14,this is the second death, where people are consumed instantly and permanently. No eternal suffering and torment.I am a Christian and I think its a shame that churches use these kind of scare tactics to keep people in church. Look at below website for many other anti-church / pro-God topics
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Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is a place or a state of pain and suffering. The English word 'hell' comes from the Teutonic 'Hel', which originally meant "to cover." "Hel" later referred to the goddess of the Norse underworld, Hel. Compare Anglo-Saxon helan, Greek kalyptein and Latin celare = "to hide, to cover" (all from PIE *kel-).\n\nAccording to many religions, the afterlife affords evildoers to suffer eternally. In monotheistic religions, Hell is often populated by demons who torment the damned. The fallen angel Lucifer in Christian theology, otherwise known as Satan, is commonly portrayed in popular culture as the ruler of Hell. Others portray Hell as the final resting place of the Devil, prepared as his punishment by God Himself. Hell is also defined as an utter absence of God or redemptive force. Purgatory, as believed by Catholicism, is another place of torment for sinners who have ultimately achieved salvation but have not paid penance for the sins they have committed in their previous lives. Hell on the contrary is commonly believed to be for eternity with no chance of redemption or salvation for those who suffer there. Christian faith teaches it is a domain of boundless dimension, scope, and torment. Many monotheistic religions regard Hell as the absolute ultimate worst-case-scenario, per se.\n\nIn polytheistic religions, the politics of Hell can be as complicated as human politics. Many Hellenistic Neopagans believe in Tartarus, which may also be considered a version of Hell.\n\n\n\nRabbinic Judaism\nGehenna is defined in rabbinic literature. It is sometimes translated as "Hell", but this doesn't effectively convey its meaning. In Judaism, Gehenna is not hell, but rather a sort of Purgatory where one is judged based on their life's deeds. The Kabbalah describes it as a "waiting room" (commonly translated as an "entry way") for all souls (not just the wicked). The overwhelming majority of rabbinic thought maintains that people are not in Gehenna forever; the longest that one can be there is said to be 12 months. Some consider it a spiritual forge where the soul is purified for its eventual ascent to Olam Habah (heb. עולם הבא; lit. "The world to come", often viewed as analogous to Heaven). This is also mentioned in the Kabbalah, where the soul is described as breaking, like the flame of a candle lighting another: the part of the soul that ascends being pure, and the "unfinished" piece being reborn.\n\n[edit]\nAncient Greek religion\nAnother source for the modern idea of 'Hell' is the Greek and Roman Tartarus, a place in which conquered gods, men and other spirits were punished. Tartarus formed part of Hades in Greek mythology and Roman mythology, but Hades also included Elysium, a place for the reward for those who lead virtuous lives, whilst others spent their afterlife in the asphodels fields. Like most ancient (pre-Christian) religions, the underworld was not viewed as negatively as it is in Christianity.\n\n[edit]\nChristianity\n[edit]\nGeneral history and description\nThe Christian idea of Hell is different from the Sheol of Judaism. The nature of Hell is described in the New Testament on several occasions. For example, in Matthew 3:10-12, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:29-30, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 22:13, Matthew 25:30, Matthew 25:41-46, Luke 3:9, Luke 12:5, Luke 13:28, Luke 16:19-28, and Revelations 12:9, Revelations 14:9-11, Revelations 19:20, Revelations 20:10, Revelations 20:14-15, Revelations 21:8; in the Book of Revelation Hell is also mentioned as the "abyss" and "the Earth". Jesus himself describes Hell as a place of "weeping and gnashing of teeth"; this quotation has frequent appearance in the New Testament.\n\nThe population of Hell comprises the souls of those who died without accepting Christ as their saviour, God's grace, in sin and without re
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Not all of it, but quite a bit of it. The creation of mankind relates most closely to the myth of Enki and Ninhursag. The Creation itself relates to myths that can be found throughout Sumer. Cain and Able comes from the myth Inanna prefers the farmer. The biblical myth of the snake and the tree comes fgrom a portion of Gilgamesh even so much as to include lilith. Much of the begats were taken as the hebrew version of the kings list. Noah can be taken from the sumerian flood stories. \n\nMuch ot the later stuff is Canaanite. Job was taken from Canaanite stories forexample. \n\nThis was because Abraham came from the city of Ur. He would have worshiped the sumerian gods by their Akkadian names and would have done things in a sumerian manner. \n\nThe ten commandments are actually rather close to a sumerian contract, and the commandments, if taken in the proper historical context, can be shown to make much more sense from a sumerian point of view.\n\nAdendum:\nto T.O. snooze !: the tablets we have from the sumerians can be easily dated both by scientific means and by comparing them to the historical accounts shown elsewhere. If compared with the bible we see that Abraham was said to come from the city of Ur and so if we find biblical stories in an erlier form then we can tell who had the stories first. \n\nTo Kevin: Where are you getting this? Your information doesn't fit with the known archeological evidence. \n\nTo Jengen: Why answer the question if you know nothing about the subject. He asked a simple archeology based question. He did not request a flawed sermon.
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not true, read the Bible especially Revelation. God made Hell and Dante
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The book of Jude. Verse 6 You can try looking in second Peter 2:4 also. This biblical Hell is Tartaroo. I don't know if Hell was actually created for Satan and his demons, but I know Tartaroo was.
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Hercules (Greek myth)\nPerseus (Greek myth)\nGilgamesh (Sumerian myth)\nTobadzistsini (Navajo myth)\nSigurd (Norse myth)\nJason (Greek myth)
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definitely, anything is open to interpretation and since no two individual are alike everyone can have different perspectives on the same topic or subject. When we make interpretations of anything we usually relate it to what we've been through or with experiences that shapes our lives thus hell for a person could mean fire and brimstone while to another it might mean an eternity of loneliness. Nothing is wrong hence the beauty of interpretation.
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You forgot one Chaos the main Greek god.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_%28mythology%29
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"HELL" is a latin word that means \n"land of the dead", so it is up to your beliefs, i believe there is a hell, but it is not a firery pit, i believe it is a huge grave yard for the forsaken, and that the only the good will be left in the light with each other and the bad will be in the darkness to walk alone by their lonely selves.
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Kerberos is the guarddog of Hades, Cerberus being the Roman version would be the guard dog of Pluto.  It was a child of Echidna and Typhon who between them created many hideous offspring.
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Mormo in the book of satan of the satanic bible is \na demon one of the names of one of the demons and he is. \nKing of the ghouls and the God of the Dead.\nThat is what the antone lavey satanic bible says\nabout mormo. Its found in the names of the devil.\nI look at him as a demon another fallen angel or it could be the devil Mormo, and Osiris have alot in common. \nOsiris is a egyptain God of the Dead and he is the father of Horus and husband to Isis.
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Beautiful Human females with rather large breasts!\nThus began the Nephilim.\n\nLoL, I love mythology!
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Satan isn't really one single being in the bible. Like black_hole_gravity said, it means "adversary" and it's more of a title than a name. Although Lucifer still is a villain in christian mythology. He did rebel against god in the story.
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I think you are referring to hell as the stereotypal giant furnace, in which case I suppose it makes sense to say that God had more options.  \nHell is actually an absence of God, a lonely dispair from God's complete abandonment of one's soul.  Being that the person in hell totally rejected God during his or her lifetime, it makes sense that God leaves that person after death.  Remembering that God is love (1 Jn 4:8), I would assume that hell would be the absence of love, a complete feeling of hatred and being hated for eternity.      \nGoing back to the question, God did not have other options so I don't have examples.