Spending an eternity with my savior in the place he resides couldn't be anything but a paradise. It's void of every anti-Christian thought, climate, gathering or notion. It's a place full of his glory, peace, grace, mercy, love and justice. It's a place without sin and therefore there exists no decay or pain or sorrow or darkness.....it can only be a paradise because it's full of only God and all his divine attributes.
My true "reward"....my "gift" is freedom from sin and being deemed righteous in his eyes.
I know you're well-versed in theology, maybe you can help me here. When did "hell," which I believe translates literally to "grave" in ancient Hebrew, become a place of eternal torture, rather than mere non-existence?
Do modern Jews, generally speaking, believe in the same Christian-type hell or the old-school translation? I mean, it's
described in the Old Testament, right?