Originally posted by Adrift
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So what you are saying, then, is that Jacob did not see Sheol as a place of eternal punishment but as a temporary period of sorrow in this life. So this indicates that Sheol is not the literal Hell/place of eternal punishment of traditional Christianity. Therefore a literal Hell/place of eternal punishment is nonexistent in the first approximately 2/3 of the OT as I previously stated.
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