How many times in your life
have you thought to be absolutely right
about something you believed to be true
but found out later on you were absolutely wrong?
How many times?
.....But I have never found the Bible to be wrong.
I was raised about a permanent burning hell fire, and came to believe that was absolutely scripturally wrong.
The English word hell in connection to fire was translated from the word Gehenna.
Gehenna was simply a garbage pit where things were 'destroyed forever' and Not kept burning forever.
Especially when unfaithful Jews began mixing with the Greeks they adopted their theories and philosophies.
So, the false teaching about a permanent burning place for the dead began to be taught in Christendom.
Whereas the Bible's hell is simply mankind's temporary grave for the unconscious dead.
That is why Jesus taught an unconscious sleep-like state for the dead at John 11:11-14 and Not burning pain.