Quote Originally Posted by 13'sbadkitty View Post
i am not sure though, that the concept of a fiery tormented hell came from Judaism. As far as i have been told, Jewish people don't actually buy into the hell thing.
It's true that they don't buy into the Christian version of hell, a place of eternal fiery torment. But they do ascribe to a place, or state, of punishment. And my comment about Yahweh was not so much regarding hell as it was about punishment.