Conservative Protestant denominations tend to base their belief on the literal interpretation of certain passages of the Bible, and symbolic interpretations of others. After their death and judgment, Conservative Protestants believe that only those who have heard the gospel, repented of their sins, and have trusted Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior will be saved and attain Heaven, leaving all non-Christians and sinners to spend eternity in Hell. Holding true to the descriptions of the afterlife in the bibe, Conservative protestants believe that everyone has eternal life, and God created Heaven and Hell as places for people to spend the re

Liberal Christians recognize that the writers of the Bible held a variety of beliefs concerning Heaven and Hell, and believe that the beliefs of the authors of the Bible evolved greatly over the approximately 850 years during which the Bible was written. Thus, there is little internal consistency in the Bible on the afterlife. The earliest books of the Bible described Sheol : an underground cavern where all people, good and bad, spent eternity after death, leading a thirsty, shadowy, energy-less existence isolated from God. Borrowing some ideas from the Zoroastrian religion, some later Jewish writers saw the faithful being resurrected and leading long lives in a purified earth before dying a second time. After the Greek invasion, the Jews picked up the Hellenistic concept that some individuals will go to Heaven for eternal reward, while the rest go to Hell for eternal punishment. The book of Daniel, from the 2nd century BCE, and the Christian Scriptures from the 1st and 2nd century CE describe this Hell. It is pictured as either a place of annihilation, where people simply cease to exist, or of eternal punishment.

Heaven is interpeted as a glorious place, free from pain, disease, sexual activity, depression, where everyone will live in new spiritual bodies in the presence of Jesus Christ. According to a growing number of religious conservatives, Hell is a place where one is simply isolated from God. To fundamentalist Christians, it is a place where people will be intensely tortured without any hope of relief. Some religious conservatives believe in conditionalism or annihilationism: individuals in Hell will be punished for an interval proportional to their sins on earth, and then totally annihilated, ceasing to exist in any form.

Liberal Christians do not interpret the Bible’s teachings literally, and therefore reject the idea of the reality of Sheol. They also reject the i

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