Walter Martin

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

The more I look into the matter of what is translated often as "hell" in a number of versions, it seems the traditional understanding - at least what seems most popular these days in numerous evangelical circles (torture forever) - may not have as much basis in scripture as I thought . . .

That would be found in Dante's Inferno, and his 9 circles of hell. Current popular conceptions of hell comes not from the Bible but from Dante.