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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
This is basically accurate, and is speaking of burning in hell. So what? Fire and brimstone passages are basically common in almost every monotheistic religious text. it's certainly not telling you to go kill people.
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Not to derail this topic, but to further this line of thought, weren't most references to fire and brimstone (in most references) in reference to Gehenna? Originally, I think Hell was called "Sheol" (correct me if I'm wrong. I'm just talking off the top of my head), the resting place of the damned (and was more defined as a dark place), but both Gehenna, the fire and brimstone location, and Sheol were translated into Hell by the King James translation.
It makes sense in my mind at least. At Gehenna (an actual location near Jerusalem), you'd be burned instead of being buried for being a heretic, which is pretty consistent with all the descriptions between religions. The difference is that they don't really specify that it's a literal event - Your physical body is literally being burned. The Valley of Hinnom, which is the name of Gehenna now, had a constant fire going at the time, so if you weren't exactly a nice guy towards God, they'd throw your body there, were you'd burn for eternity (or so it seemed)
So if we combine this with the passage quotes, it's basically stating that you'll be thrown into this longstanding fire (which also housed a lot of sulfur. I think this is the origin of "fire and brimstone Hell") by Allah.