Is it true that the Ancient Theists including Jews Christian?

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Is it true that the Ancient Theists including Jews Christians and Muslims believed that Heaven was in the sky and Hell was under the ground of the Planet Earth I ask this because when I was young child and a Christian I believed that Heaven was in the sky and Hell was underground I also met other people who beleved this as children. I also read this good article from Infidel Guy.com

http://www.infidelguy.com/article1.html
 
I am pretty sure they did, being that there is the story of the tower of babel
 
It's pretty impossible to guess what ancient people believed and didn't believe. I know that the Bible and other ancient texts suggest that hell is a holding place for dead spirits, not a place of torment, and that it's not underground or anything like that. I know that there is a lot of symbolism used as well (do angels have wings or are they symbolic of the ability to move from place to place without having to walk?) Where is heaven? Not on Earth. So what's not on Earth? The sky? Stars? Is it symbolism or is it "they live in the clouds"? I don't remember the bible saying that they live in the clouds, only that they live in the heavens... and the heavens meaning the sky, stars, planets, and all that encompasses. Was their understanding of the heavens that it was finite? That it had limits? I don't know.

The other thing to question is did it matter? If I needed you to fix cars, would I bother explaining to you how to make an airplane? Could God have given the information necessary for their time, for their purposes, for their progression and to lift the people who they interacted with at the necessary interval? I mean, I don't have a problem with a God who looked at humans and said "okay, they're ready to accept this elementary information. They're not ready to understand the cosmos. They don't need to understand how gravity, orbits, or even how large the universe is. We'll leave it at that until they're ready for more."

It would be a pretty stupid God who went to a bunch of people unable to understand these things and explain everything, and then watch His prophet basically be ignored about the more important spiritual things because they considered him a madman to be talking about the universe. Look what happened to Galileo so many centuries later. We're given what we're ready for when we're ready for it.
 
Lots of this was reinforced by literature and art, even cartoons, just like the little devil and little angel arguing with each other that look just like the person they're trying to convince.
It's all attempts to define the undefinable experiences that people report, none if it is to be taken literally but in a manner of speaking it all has an element of truth to it, which makes it even more dangerous because it's so easy to misinterpret.
The best thing you can do is to try to experience these unspeakable things for yourself and then words can fail you as well when you wish to share them.

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A) Christians and Muslims are not ancient.
B) Which Ancient theists? There are too many of them. Greeks, Romans, Assyrians, Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Sumerians, Phoenicians, just to name a few. Not to mention the multitude of theists in the rest of the world. Some believed so- others had other ideas. The greeks and the Romans believed hell/Tartarus to be underground. The gods did not live in heaven but on mountains and the sea.
 
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