For millions of people, to acknowledge the humanity of the preborn child is to experience genuine remorse over abortion. It ...

Traditionally, Christians believed that Heaven and Hell were physical places. Nowadays, some Christians believe that Heaven and Hell are not physical places but instead could be states of mind ...

Few metaphysical spaces are quite as terrifying as hell. As a Christian conception, it haunts the collective imagination, a reminder of the danger of sinning and living a bad life. However ...

Large majorities of Christians and Muslims hold each of these beliefs, as do more than half of all Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and religiously unaffiliated adults. Belief in heaven and belief in hell are ...

It is the Jewish equivalent of the Christian Hell. As these concepts developed, Sheol came to be understood as a temporary place of waiting, where a person’s soul could either be purified and ...