(Baxter, J. Sidlow. 9-19 ) According to the Bible “Heaven is conceived as a place of perfection where people who are righteous will live eternally in God’s presence and Hell is conceived as a place of eternal punishment and pain for people who lived sinful lives”. (What Does the Bible Say About Heaven, Hell, Eternal Life and the Resurrection of the Body? N.p., n.d. Web.) The description of Heaven and Hell in the Torah, which is the holy book in the Jewish tradition is very similar to what it is in the Quran and the Bible. Much like the Quran and the Bible the Torah states that Heaven is an eternal paradise named the Garden of Eden. In the Torah Pesikta de-Rav Kahana says “Why has God created the Garden of Eden and Gehinnom? That one might deliver from the other”. (30, 19b) The Torah also states that paradise is incomprehensible to our intellect, meaning it is more perfect than what we as humans can imagine. Hell or Gehinnom as the people in the Jewish tradition call it in the Torah is conceived as a fiery place that torments people who have lived wicked lives, and is more painful than anything any individual has experienced in this …show more content…
(57b) There is clear evidence that the afterlife is conceived very similarly in all three of these religions. Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all believe that there are two spheres of the afterlife called Heaven and Hell, and in the Quran, the Bible, and the Torah, Heaven and Hell are both described very similarly, ultimately with Hell being a fiery place of torment and Heaven being an eternal paradise. Though these religions have many differences, one thing that remains constant across all three religions is the existence and the nature of the