The Bible never uses the word hell to describe any earthly suffering. You minimize hell when you do that. Hell is a real place in the heart of the earth. Hell has literal fire and torment. Being in a whale's belly is no comparison whatsoever. If the only thing we read was the bible, we would never come up with these silly comparisons from these silly commentaries.
I would offer. According to the secular world as those who wrestle against flesh and blood and not the unseen spiritual things in high places yes, as those who walk by sight. That would be the silly to walk by sight . Christ in us gives us his faith to see the unseen will of God.
They created a vision of hell that the secular world uses to instill the fear of man is a living suffering. like that given to Cain who killed the first martyr. When God cursed the earth after the first murder of the god of this world .
Most doctrines have there foundation as a law in Genesis, and the doctrine of hell would not seem to be any different.
The heart of the corrupted of earth is the curse that totally corrupted the whole creation. All things did not produce what it was originally designed to do. The glory of God had departed. The whole creation today cries out in pains to be delivered from the bondage of decay.
Cain who knew not God walked by sight . He as a result declared; "My punishment is greater than I can bear". That describes hell a punishment greater than we can bear.
Christ in the Son of man Jesus bore that punishment in out place. Cain knew it was the death penalty as the wrath of God revealed from heaven on mankind. In his agony the fear of man overwhelmed him and said its instant death whoever finds me will kill .But the Holy Spirit assigned a number as a mark the spirit of judgment (666). To make sure Cain finished the whole death sentence a punishment more than he could bear .A restless wanderer having no faith to rest in .
Jesus in the garden of Gethemenane was given the rest needed to strengthen him to finish that work. Three times as a work of the father and Son, as one God.
The belly of the whale, the tribulations we suffer in this life.
Genesis 4:10
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Above describes the corrupted heart of the earth as result of the
curse crying out to be clothed with the incorruptible.
.Below the suffering of death. . The cause of the curse...it yields death in respect to our bodies of decay .
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.Genesis 4: 11-12
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. Genesis 4:13-15
Again the
curse a punishment greater than we can bear. Christ bore our sin as the sin bearer. We are in the last days of tribulation. I offer we look to Christ for our comfort and remind us of what he has taught us. I would suggest not Hollywood as a false source of faith, as visionaries described in Colossian 2:18 . Seeing things not there puffed up by their fleshly minds.