Hell is only mans common grave, not the burning hell fire for eternity that the clergy have been teaching.
“Hellfire” has been a basic teaching in Christendom for many centuries. It is understandable why The Encyclopedia Americana (1956, Vol. XIV, p.*81) said: “Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception.” Nevertheless, such transliteration and consistent rendering does enable the Bible student to make an accurate comparison of the texts in which these original words appear and, with open mind, thereby to arrive at a correct understanding of their true significance.
Hell was created for the angels in heaven who knew God but rebelled anyway against Him. It was not created for men. But because man decided to follow satan in the Garden of Eden, man got to follow him to hell. God gives us the right to chose who we will follow.