Beth said it.
No, there is not an alternative and everyone has the Light light them from the time they come into the world, so as to seek, and find, or to deny, or ignore, or to blaspheme when they have sought and found -like Judas did.
But the doctrine of Sheol below earth and the Lake of Fire are first, totally recorded as foundational doctrines by Enoch the prophet, the seventh from Adam -which writing is "Canon" in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
In the Lake of Fire below, there are differing degrees of eternal punishment which are rewards for evil done in the body and which are based on the works of evil one did with full willful understanding against the Light that lights every man that comes into the world.
Christ is that Light, says John, and Christ is the Judge of all the secrets of every heart, and He will make them all manifest in the day of Judgment. No one will be cast into the Lake of Fire for our first father/Adam's sin, which is covered once, for all, but all will be judged for their own sins committed in their own bodies which they did against the Light/Christ -the Conscience given to every man that comes into the world and which they did not repent of, by conviction given to them by the Light that lights every man that comes into the world.
One does not need to know the Name of Jesus to sin against the Light, but when one seeks that Light, they find, and that Light leads them on. to know Christ.
No baby who died before coming to the age of understanding good and evil and doing either with will is accountable for any sins, but they did not get to live and earn eternal rewards for heaven, but indeed, they are saved by the Atonement -that includes, even, adults who are mental babies who are full grown and not accountable.
Just as there are differing degrees of rewards in the Lake of Fire, there are also differing degrees of rewards in eternal Life, and each man is judged for their own works of righteousness after they are saved, but no one can be acceptable for any righteous thing they have done if they are not saved, for God teaches us an unclean vessel, defiled and ruined, cannot bear the Glory, and must be remade to be able to bear the Glory.
No Adam person is clean and able to bear the Glory to present any acceptable offering to the Glory above, and will not even see His face forever -no matter how "earthly good" they may be in man's eyes.
All babies and mental babies will receive the regeneration of their body made in the image of Christ's New Man body, for the blood of the Atonement ransoms them back to God.
Also, heaven is not outside time and the creation. It is part of it, for in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and the heavens were powers that were stretched out between the divided waters of earth's creation, on day 2.
Above the heavens are half the waters of creation, and between the waters are three heavens.
Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden, which is in the third heaven, where the Tree of Life is, as the Scripture states.
The redemption of the Adam race by the Kinsman' Redeemer by the Atonement and adoption and regeneration makes us fit to be raised up again, to God's Garden, and earth below will be totally restored to that which it was made to be in the beginning.
God is not outside time, but the whole creation is separated form the Glory since the fall, when Adam was cast down to earth below fron Mount Eden, in heaven above.
Sheol below earth is only the temporary holding place for the dead who will be judged, but only the unrepentant go there since the Atonement.
The Lake of Fire, however, is outer darkness, and is the kingdom of darkness made for the Satans, where they will torment the fallen angels, the demons, and the unrepentant Adam souls, forever.
As to the word "Hell" it is from the Hebrew "Sheol", and is the hollow of earth.
As to the word "Hades", it is coined from the Hebrew word Qadesh [holy in an unclean way/temple prostitutes] at the time of the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah Genesis 14: In the Greek Septuagint it is already changed to Kades, and the H stuck. Q/H/K/hard C are all gutterals and since Bab-El, interchange language to language, and the "sh" is shortened to just "s".
Moses, writing of Abraham's pursuing the kings who raided Sodom and Gomorrah, gave the places Abraham chased them as the coined names they had come to have already -long before Greeks were anything but lowly shepherds [they invented nothing, and adopted all the cultures histories which they captured, later]
Gen 14:7 And they returned, and came to
Enmishpat[
well spring of judgment], which [is]
Kadesh[קדש
Qadesh ], and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
קדש
Qadesh -coined to describe a sodomite, from "holy" in an unclean way.
The English version of the Septuagint text,
Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton
Gen 14:7
And having turned back they came to the well of judgment; this is Cades, and they cut in pieces all the princes of Amalec, and the Amorites dwelling in Asasonthamar.
Septuagint N.E.T translation:
Gen 14:7
And after they had turned back they came to the spring of judgment
(this is Kades)...
So the coined word from Hebrew, coined at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, is now written "Hades", but that is its history -as Jude also states:
Jude1:6,7
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
