Surprisingly those in “Sheol” have lost the ability to think or to engage in any activity.
Is “Sheol” the “hell” you had in mind? The one Jews believed in?
Eccl 9:5, 6, 10....from the Jewish Tanakh....
5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for their remembrance is forgotten. 6 Also their love, as well as their hate, as well as their provocation has already been lost, and they have no more share forever in all that is done. . . . .
10 Whatever your hand attains to do [as long as you are ] with your strength, do; for there is neither deed nor reckoning, neither knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, [sheol] where you are going. ”
In the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew “Sheol” is translated as “hades”...so “sheol” and “hades” mean the same thing......the common grave of all mankind....a place where we all go when we die.
“The dead know nothing”.....they are unconscious and therefore there is “neither deed nor reckoning, knowledge or wisdom” in that place.
Jews believed in resurrection..... and Jesus himself demonstrated exactly what that meant.
He resurrected his friend Lazarus.....
“These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.” (John 11: 11-14 KJV)
Where was Lazarus before Jesus raised hm? Do you see plainly what Jesus said? Lazarus was dead.