Alma 5

5:6

“… And moreover, have ye sufficiently retained in remembrance that he has delivered their souls from hell?”

            This is another verse that mentions a concept that seems too post-Hellenism to fit into the context of these ancient Israelites that were separated from the eastern hemisphere before the diaspora. Along with “dualism” and “afterlife”, the concept of “hell” seems odd. The Old Testament mentions Sheol, which is a place where all dead people go, good and bad. There is no concept of bad people going to a different place from good people. Gehena and Gehinnom are mentioned in Joshua 15:8 and 2 Chronicles 28:3 which were real geographical locations that were said to be cursed; they eventually became to be thought of as hell.