Thread: Would you delete a copy of the Koran?
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Old 09-14-2010, 10:39 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
I just did a web search with randomly chosen translations, and found that the word hell appears 14 times in the Bible (New International Version) but 97 times in the much shorter Quran (M.H. Shakir translation), providing objective support for my subjective impression.
KJV uses the word "hell" 54 times.

But the instances of "hell" in the OT in the KJV are historical revisionism-- the OT Hebrews hadn't invented the concept of "hell" as we know it yet-- they believed in "sheol", the dark underworld where everyone went after death. "Hell" as a place of punishment for the non-chosen is new to the NT. So of course, with a few hundred more years to refine the concept, the Koran would have more references to "hell."
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