Gehenna - Literal or Figurative?

[Homer]

Paidion,

You wrote:

If so, could not "soul and body" also be a figure of speech for God's destruction of the "entire person" in Gehenna?

Are you understanding gehenna to be hell or the valley outside Jerusalem?

[Paidion]

Are you understanding gehenna to be hell or the valley outside Jerusalem?

Historically, I agree that gehenna is the valley outside Jerusalem. However,presently, I understand gehenna to be the "hell" which many (or possibly all) people will experience when they are raised from the dead. Notwithstanding, this is not a decided belief on my part. It may refer only to the historic place. I am in the process of trying to learn whether the concept of it being only the historic place outside Jerusalem is consistent with the teaching of Christ.