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HEAVEN AND HELL: IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE: PROF.M.M.NINAN<br />
As for the third group, they shall go down to Gehenna for a time <strong>and</strong> then come up again to earth to<br />
live, as it is written (Zech. 13:9 <strong>and</strong> 1 Sam. 2:6).<br />
But the Hillelites say: He who is abundant in mercy inclines toward mercy, <strong>and</strong> it is of them that<br />
David speaks {Ps. 116:1)<br />
The sinners of Israel, guilty in their body, <strong>and</strong> the sinners of the nations of the world, guilty in their<br />
body, go down to Gehenna to be punished there for twelve months, then their souls are reduced to<br />
nothing <strong>and</strong> their bodies are burned <strong>and</strong> Gehenna vomits them up; they become ash <strong>and</strong> the wind<br />
disperses them to be trodden underfoot by the holy (Mal. 4, 3, 3, 21).Originally, Sheol was believed<br />
to be a place where all the dead went. In later periods Judaism developed the belief that in Sheol<br />
the righteous <strong>and</strong> the wicked were separated.<br />
During the Second Temple period (roughly 500 BCE–70 CE) the concept of a Bosom of Abraham<br />
first occurs in Jewish papyri that refer to the "Bosom of Abraham, Isaac <strong>and</strong> Jacob". This reflects<br />
the belief of Jewish martyrs who died expecting that: "after our death in this fashion Abraham,<br />
Isaac, <strong>and</strong> Jacob will receive us <strong>and</strong> all our forefathers will praise us" (4 Maccabees 13:17).<br />
http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/53033-abraham-helping-out-in-spirit-prisonparadise/<br />
Other early Jewish works adapt the Greek mythical picture of Hades to identify the righteous dead<br />
as being separated from unrighteous in the fires by a river or chasm. In the pseudepigraphical<br />
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