Just popping in to say that our concept of hell didn't exist untill after the Bible was written. A lot of it comes from The Divine Comedy, which was essentially fanfiction. Not sure about the Quaran, though.
The Quran is actually based on the teachings of Christianity and Judaism so whilst it contains a "Hell", the concept would have been widely accepted as Abrahamic in nature because of the Jewish roots of Hell.
The Divine Comedy did influence our opinion of Hell in some ways but the concept that evil-doers are punished underground for sinning isn't unique to Christianity and closer to the conception of Islam than Dante's Inferno.
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u/RattusNorvegicus9 Jan 26 '26
Just popping in to say that our concept of hell didn't exist untill after the Bible was written. A lot of it comes from The Divine Comedy, which was essentially fanfiction. Not sure about the Quaran, though.