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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
However, in the King James Version (the Version preferred by many fundamentalists) there are 53 instances of the word "hell." Still far fewer than in the much shorter Qur'an, however. It is striking just how often eternal punishments are depicted in the Qur'an.
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I think the old testament preferred more immediate and earthly forms of punishments, and these are not lacking, it seems to me with my poor knowledge of these matters. Examples that come to mind are the Flood (is that the term? I mean the episode with Noah's ark) or Sodom and Gomorrah's fate, the plagues of Egypt... not to mention random cruelty such as what happened to Job.