The prevalent notions and ideas people had of HELL during medieval times are reflected in paintings of that time that were intended to picture hell.
Ask yourself, is this what the Bible is teaching?
I want to encourage you to read the article on this website, THE WORD HELL IS NOT IN SCRIPTURE.
The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck c.a. 1440 (via Wikimedia Commons)
Dante and his Poem by Domenico Di Michellino 1465 (via Wikimedia Commons)
An Angel Leading a Soul into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) (Via Wikimedia Commons)
