The HyperTexts Was Hell in the Original Bible? Not in a single verse! There are definitely hints of heaven and hell in the Old Testament (Psalm 73 is one example). Sheol and hell in the Old Testament. Was "hell" in the original Bible? While the English word "hell" has connotations as a place of punishment for the condemned, sheol does not have such connotations. … After asserting this, they say that we cannot establish the doctrine of hell when the Old Testament “does not teach this concept.” We can look back in the Old Testament we see the doctrine of the Trinity in seed form but much more clearly expressed in … However, for a study about hell to be complete, we also need to examine Hell in the Old Testament. Generally, in the Old Testament the blessings and curses are more of a physical and a temporal nature than of an everlasting nature, as in the New Testament. The concept of "Hell" was developed in the period after the Old Testament was written and before the New Testament was written. Why are Heaven, Hell, etc. Why are Heaven, Hell, etc. Or is heaven reserved only for people who lived after Jesus came? Introduction. The scriptural support for literal everlasting destruction is so immense that I actually had to limit what I included in the main body of Hell Know.I felt I provided more than enough evidence and that, to include more, would be at the risk of boring readers. Even so, most new translations have completely eliminated Hell from the Old Testament, as honest and better scholarship has demanded. not mentioned in the Old Testament? not mentioned in the Old Testament? "Hades" came from the Greek concept of the Underworld where dead souls went to after death. Hell is mentioned in the Old Testament. No, the word "hell" did not appear anywhere in the original Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament (OT). It does not take much Bible study to see that the beliefs and attitudes concerning the afterlife in general and hell in particular were quite different in the characters that inhabit the Old Testament as compared to those of the New Testament. Did people in Old Testament times go to heaven when they died? Some people think that hell is simply a New Testament doctrine or a New Testament idea because there’s no apparently clear reference to hell in the Old Testament. Below are all of the Bible passages from the New International Version where the Hebrew word “sheol” is found in the original Hebrew Bible text. I have read several critics of the doctrine of hell insist that the concept of hell cannot be found in the Old Testament. What we expect in terms of how God reveals himself is that the New Testament would give us a fuller revelation of God, such as the doctrine of the Trinity.