Religion without hell?

Sheol and paradise seem to be later developments; it became abundantly clear, when you sat back and looked at it, that people's just rewards didn't necessarily come in this life. This frustrated the writer of a number of Psalms, as I'm sure you know.The later addition of ideas about some kind of afterlife was the sticking point between the Sadducees and Pharisees in the gospels - the former only accepting the afterlife-free Pentateuch as Scripture.Theology evolves through the Bible. It's an interesting topic.

Forgiven - you can search as much as you like; there is no mention of an afterlife in the Pentateuch. That is why the Sadducees didn't believe in it. In the Pentateuch, everything is "this life" based. Obey God's commands, everything goes well. Disobey, get squashed. It was the gradual realisation that this wasn't actually happening that led to theological development and the concept of an afterlife.