We know Hell is a borrowed term and Sheol was the term Christ used

Well, no. You can make this argument about the Torah, but in the NT for example you have the story of Lazarus, the rich man goes to Hades (not Sheol) a place of torment where he is "tormented in this flame" (described in other sections of the NT as a place where "the worms don't die", and many other examples), while Lazarus goes to the Bosom of Abraham. This is thought to be some sort of a purgatory, since nobody could enter into Heaven until Christ. So this is actually pretty clear imagery laid out regarding heaven and hell (the existence of it, anyways).

But it is a valid observation for the Torah, which most people aren't aware of. So that's cool you know that. I appreciate the intelligent critique.

This isn't what Christianity is to a lot of people (evangelicals etc) but that's mainly because they don't care about philosophy. Like, at all. So it's really just a vague understanding that when you die you go somewhere that isn't good. Not really a firm conviction about what that actually means.

Protestantism is a system of pretty much continuously reinventing the wheel since there's no top-down authority, so it's not necessarily that they don't believe it but that they're only able to get to step 3 when this is step 15. I'm an Orthodox Christian, these ideas were formulated over the course of 1,000+ years. It's the culmination of many brilliant minds devoting their entire lives to the pursuit of truth, exchanging ideas, deliberating. That's pretty hard to compete with by just...getting together with a bunch of other pals who believe in Christ, chatting about it and maybe starting a blog or reading a few books from contemporary authors.

I have yet to receive any pushback from other Christians about this though. They think it's great and insightful. It would be incredibly difficult to find a Christian who would hear what I said and be like "ummm no, fuck you. Hell is literally a torture chamber where God sits there stabbing you in the face for eternity". I would have trouble trying to find one. I mean, even for that matter I have trouble finding atheists who find what I'm saying problematic (conceptually, of course). It's pretty sensible and obvious once you hear it. I really don't know why this understanding went by the wayside.

TL;DR It's less that they believe something contradictory to what I'm saying and more that the wisdom and knowledge of our ancestors has been entirely erased. Which is sad.

2 decades or so ago when I was attending a boarding school, one night I went to sleep, like any other night. It was a rainy night. So I started to fall asleep, and then I heard a voice in my room, that awoke me, a female voice saying "He had to show papers to the court to prove that he was still a student". I was like wtf. So it awoke me and I turned the light on, and got up from my bed, and said "who's there? Hello? Is there somebody here?" and I started to search my room, looking in the corners to check if somebody was there. And there was nobody. So, I thought I had hallucinated, that it was just dream for lack of better explanation, and I went back to bed and didn't give it a second thought afterward. 3 or 4 months later, a girl I barely knew, a nice looking girl, who was a friend of a girl I knew, came to me and asked what I was doing for summer holidays and if I was ok to go to spain with her, she invited me at her place over there. Of course I accepted the invitation, I thought "yeah... I'm gonna sex you, awesome...". So the next month or so I went with her in spain. Then once over there, it was strange because most of the time we didn't hang with each others, so I wondered why she even invited me, what for, if it obviously wasn't all about having sex in the end? I'm a nice guy but there's a lot of nice guys, and we didn't know much each others, so why? I guess in hindsight it was just to spite her friend. But I digress. So days are passing by, I get bored, in a villa in a southern town of spain, not much to do except watching clouds passing by. Then one evening, she invites friends of her to take a coffee. People I didn't know, had no connection with, so I'm like at a table half listening to a bunch of strangers discussing about their respective life, and then, another girl, a friend of her, said "...He had to show papers to the court to prove that he was still a student". And I was like holyshit, W_T_F >>>> Jaw Drops to the ground. The episode in my room that I forgot about came right back at me. It was that voice that I heard that night, it's that exact same sentence that awoke me in my room that night. And I was about to tell everybody around that table, what just happened, and then I realized that if I do that, they're going to think I'm crazy, so I said nothing.

Fast forward 2 weeks later or so, a fire engulfed the first floor of the house, and I managed to save the day essentially, I skip you the details, her mother was completely doped on sleeping pills, even technically awake she couldn't tell if she was dreaming or if it was real, I had to handle that too

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So you see, you think you know what's we commonly call "reality", just like the people before and after you, scholars, scientists, etc

But you don't know, you think you know, big difference

You and I are like terry A davis' bird, starring at his CRT monitor, there isn't a chance in the world for us to one day figure out what's that thing we're looking at