JETS 38:1 (March 1995) p. 52 look on such a place with anything but pain, knowing that some of their own family or friends may go there? The other category consists of speculations (1) that God has no real intention of punishing people eternally but only threatens to, (2) that hell denotes annihilation and not conscious suffering, and (3) that hell is for the purpose of reforming and saving men and fallen angels, not eternally punishing them, and that therefore persons in hell will one day be released