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I get the impression there is still religious/linguistic debate regarding different translations of "death" and "hell" in the Bible, and what they entail. But when did European Christendom settle on the idea of a physical Hell, reserved for burning sinners upon death or the End of Days?

by /u/ColbyStein in /r/AskHistorians

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