Hell as punishment Belief that an individual's ultimate punishment is being sent by God, the highest authority, to an existence in Hell, a place believed to exist in the after-life, typically corresponds to sins committed during their life. Sometimes these distinctions are specific, with damned souls suffering for each sin committed (see for example Plato's myth of Er or Dante's The Divine Comedy), but sometimes they are general, with condemned sinners relegated to one or more chamber of Hell or to a level of suffering.
Hell as punishment Belief that an individual's ultimate punishment is being sent by God the highest authority to an existence in Hell a place believed to exist in the after-life typically corresponds to sins committed during their life Sometimes these distinctions are specific with damned souls suffering for each sin committed (see for example Plato's myth of Er or Dante's The Divine Comedy) but sometimes they are general with condemned sinners relegated to one or more chamber of Hell or to a level of suffering