Editing Harrowing of Hell (section)

==Background==
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The [[Old Testament]] view of the [[afterlife]] was that all people when they died, whether [[righteousness|righteous]] or unrighteous, went to [[Sheol]], a dark, still place.<ref>Rainwater, Robert (1990). "Sheol". In Mills, Watson E. (ed.). ''Mercer Dictionary of the Bible''. Mercer University Press. {{ISBN| 9780865543737}}</ref> Several works from the [[Second Temple Judaism|Second Temple period]] elaborate the concept of Sheol, dividing it into sections based on the righteousness or unrighteousness of those who have died.<ref>Longenecker, Richard N. (2003). "Cosmology". In Gowan, Donald E. (ed.). ''The Westminster Theological Wordbook of the Bible''. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 189 {{ISBN| 9780664223946}}</ref>

The New Testament maintains a distinction between Sheol, the common "place of the dead", and the eternal destiny of those condemned at the [[Final Judgment]], variously described as [[Gehenna]], [[Outer darkness|"the outer darkness"]], or a [[Lake of fire|lake of eternal fire]].<ref name="Cook1883">{{cite book|last=Cook|first=Joseph|title=Advanced thought in Europe, Asia, Australia, &c|year=1883|publisher=Richard D. Dickinson |location=London |page=41}}</ref>