Matthew 10:28 “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
There is a place called hell. Jesus said so. It is a place where every person must go who leaves this life without saving faith in Jesus. Jesus was a hell-fire and brimstone preacher, not because He enjoyed the thought of sinners suffering for eternity, but because He wanted to warn sinners about going to that awful place.
Hell translates geenna (Greek) or gehinnom (Hebrew), named after the “Valley of Hinnom,” a deep depression in the earth just south of Jerusalem. King Ahaz and King Manasseh, two of the most evil rulers that Israel ever had, offered child sacrifices in that valley by burning them to the pagan god Molack. The valley was declared unclean by good King Josiah, and was thereafter used as a city dump, a place where fires constantly burned and where the corpses of animals and vagrant and indigent men were burned. The valley became a type and a symbol of the eschatological hell, a place that exists somewhere in God’s universe, a place of final judgment of lost souls, a place of unquenchable fire, a lake of fire, a place of outer darkness and eternal punishment. Only God has power to cast a lost person into hell.