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Among the many churches which separated from the Worldwide Church of God, also referred to as the "Sabbatarian Churches of God" or, more pejoratively, Armstrongites, there is a shared belief in binitarianism, and that Jesus was the God of the Old Testament through whom God the Father created the world (based on Ephesians 3:9 and John 1:1–3 ...
The Muslim historian Al-Tabari, who died in around 923 AD, [177] writes that, before Adam was created, earthly jinn made of smokeless fire roamed the earth and spread corruption. [197] He further relates that Iblis was originally an angel named Azazil or Al-Harith , [ 198 ] from a group of angels, created from the fires of simoom , [ 199 ] sent ...
Eastern Orthodoxy maintains that God did not create death, but that it was forged by the devil through deviance from the righteous way (a love of God and gratitude). [210] In a sense, it was a place where God was not, for he could not die, yet it was an inescapable prison for all humanity until the Christ.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "By the expression 'He descended into Hell', the Apostles' Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil 'who has the power of death' (Hebrews 2:14). In his human soul united to his divine person, the dead Christ went down to the realm of the dead.
God resting after creation – Christ depicted as the creator of the world prior to his incarnation as Jesus, [1] Byzantine mosaic in Monreale, Sicily.. Pre-existence, premortal existence, beforelife, or life before birth, is the belief that each individual human soul existed before mortal conception, and at some point before birth enters or is placed into the body.
[21] Origen of Alexandria (c. 185-254), developed a view of purification after death; [22] this view drew upon the notion that fire is a divine instrument from the Old Testament, and understood this in the context of New Testament teachings such as baptism by fire, from the Gospels, and a purificatory trial after death, from St. Paul. [23]
Based on verses like Matthew 16:27 and Romans 6:23 they believe the unsaved do not go to any place of punishment as soon as they die, but are reserved in the grave until the day of judgment after the Second coming of Jesus to be judged, either for eternal life or eternal death. This interpretation is called annihilationism.
In Islamic tradition, a place called Sijjin is known to be the prison of unbelieving souls. It is also the place of Satan and his fellow devils. Quran exegete Tabari (839–923 CE) commented on sijjin: "it is the seventh and lowest earth (underworld), in which Satan is chained, and in it are the souls (arwah) of the infidels (kufar). [17]