Christianity and Islamm are the only major religions that I know of that have a concept of a place called hell. Most religions don't even have an idea of a heaven either. For instance, the jewish faith says that when you die, you go to be with God (not a heaven per se, but "with God") if you are rightous and choose to do so, but if you don't, you are not automatically consigned to hell, you just go and do something else during the after life.
Heaven and Hell were created by church officials as a reward and a punishment for doing or not doing what thier docturine says. There is NO mention of Hell in the bible. The closest thing is a description of a place that was once outside of ancient Jeruselam that was used, more or less, as a huge garbage dump. Imagine this for a moment, 2000 or so years ago. No sanitation, no cover for the waste, no ventilation to keep the stench outside of nearby homes. Now, to discredit me a little, I can not remember what they called it, but I know that the same word evolved into a synonym for Hell.
Also, you can find a few references for a hell-like place in Revelations in the New Testiment, but that was written 100 or more years after Christ died, and was heavily influenced by the fledgeling Christion church.
But, if we really want to get down and dirty, Jesus never said he was the son of God either. The closest was calling himself the "son of man". And, when he cried out "Father, why have you foresaken me!" while on the cross, there is no telling who or what he was talking to, considering the mind numbing pain and hysteria someone undergoing crucifixtion is going through. That is, if he said any such thing at all, since the first book of the New Testiment written (not apearing in the book, just written) was Mark, and historians have that as being first scripted 30 or 40 years after Christ. There were NONE of the 12 disiples involved with writing the gosples. Only the letters of Paul, and some of Acts, are genuine and "From the source."
I hope I did not insult anyone or step on any toes, but religion is sort of a hobby of mine, espesially the Western religions, and Christianity in particular. I don't think that human kind has ever come up with a more astounding and interesting invention.