i havent read the other replies yet, beyond the first couple, but id like to suggest an alternative interpretation, that being that what is translated to us as "hell" which we understand as a place of fire and brimstone that evildoers goto after they have died came from our Norse/Angle scribes who had no better analogy for
Gehenna, which is right here on earth, right?
So first off our concept of "hell" is prolly whacked, and tbh i doubt we have a very good concept of Christ either, we turn Christ into "Jesus," when Jesus surely did not die for our sins! Strange as that maybe sounds--
No son of man may die for another's sins; the soul that sins, dies
So, Christ
came that we might have life, more abundantly, right, but a little
Apollos waters and alla sudden we have pretty much everybody believing that they are maybe somehow gonna go up to heaven after they have died, to become immortals, while some other people who do not believe as they do might go to hell after they have died, to burn forever; and we have plenty of Scripture that condemns this pov, that must be ignored in order to believe those.
If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you end up in it yourself
Is it POSSIBLE that some meet Jesus upon their physical death and are then saved? For instance, people who have never heard the word of Jesus?
Christ is Spirit, right, meaning whether or not ppl actually call "Him" that He will exist in their culture in some form, imo. Jesus worship is not a good idea i dont think, and you might note that ppl in Jesus Cults are always waiting for life to begin after they have literally died? Usually after "Jesus" takes them somewhere? This is Jesus as Apollos imo, and they are really mithraists, seeking immortality, regardless of the dress they put it in