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You're all coming at this subject with a least two unsupported assumptions:

1.That the writers of the Bible knew what they were talking about. We have a lot more knowledge of the universe then they did during Biblical times, and so far, I'm not aware that anyone has discovered a place that fits the Biblical description of hell. Sure, there are the so-called near death experience [NDEs]. But, at this point in the state of knowledge, NDEs are more likely neuropsychological than metaphysical.

2. That the writers all believed the same thing about the after-life. Since many of them were not aware of each other and wrote at different times as the Judaeo-Christian religion developed, its more likely that there is a variety of beliefs about these things.