Bible scholars have found that hell as we know it today was the city dump, so to speak. That should put things in perspective. When it's referred to in the Bible, it's a teaching to the people that if they do X, they will experience suffering like burning in the constant furnace of the dump.
Of course, the word started to become a literal place not on this earth. However, hell was meant to be considered a present tense suffering likened to the "city dump."
In Spirit,
Nneka
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