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How do Christians understand the various Divine punishments given in the Hebrew Bible? Protestant Christians believe there is heaven for believers and hell for non-believers, with no gradations in between. This would seem to contradict the Tanach examples of punishment.


An excellent question. I have been seriously considering beginning the process of conversion to Catholicism for exactly this reason and a few others as well.

But of course I am going to warn the Catholic scholars who deal with me that I have a Judaising streak in me that goes very deep. If the Catholic church has grown to the point where she can put up with somebody like me....then I believe it may be possible for a new era/age to dawn in Vatican/Israel; Roman Catholic/Jewish relations.

dennis tate