What are the Bible's actual descriptions of Hell?

Answer 1

It's interesting, The Bible doesn't talk about 'hell'. The Hebrew she’ohl´ and its Greek equivalent hai´des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge´en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction.
The Bible is plain....the wages sin pays is death...it says nothing about 'eternal suffering' in some hell. God told Adam and Eve they would die should they disobey, that's all. Die.

Eccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol,* the place to which you are going.” (If they are conscious of nothing, they obviously feel no pain.) (*“Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB; “the grave,” KJ, Kx; “hell,” Dy; “the world of the dead,” TEV

“Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception.”—The Encyclopedia Americana (1942), Vol. XIV, p. 81.

Here is where it came from...

In ancient Babylonian and Assyrian beliefs the “nether world . . . is pictured as a place full of horrors, and is presided over by gods and demons of great strength and fierceness.” (The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Boston, 1898, Morris Jastrow, Jr., p. 581) Early evidence of the fiery aspect of Christendom’s hell is found in the religion of ancient Egypt. (The Book of the Dead, New Hyde Park, N.Y., 1960, with introduction by E. A. Wallis Budge, pp. 144, 149, 151, 153, 161) Buddhism, which dates back to the 6th century B.C.E., in time came to feature both hot and cold hells. (The Encyclopedia Americana, 1977, Vol. 14, p. 68) Depictions of hell portrayed in Catholic churches in Italy have been traced to Etruscan roots.—La civiltà etrusca (Milan, 1979), Werner Keller, p. 389.

But the real roots of this God-dishonoring doctrine go much deeper. The fiendish concepts associated with a hell of torment slander God and originate with the chief slanderer of God (the Devil, which name means “Slanderer”), the one whom Jesus Christ called “the father of the lie.”—John 8:44.

I hope that's not too much information. But, I also hope it helps someone who takes the time to read, and investigate on their own....

Answer 2

Jesus has many names. The term Angel ability basically messenger. It would not must be a this or that determination right here. Jesus is a messenger and he's God. He replaced into additionally call the Son of guy too. he's no longer a created being. he's the son of God. This situation does no longer have any genuine impression on Adventist ideals. this is in lots of cases stated via different faiths to nitpick and that's all. Adventists do have faith interior the trinity of the Godhead this is God the daddy, God the Son (Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit. Adventists do certainly have faith that the ineffective understand no longer something. they suspect Jesus will improve them up from the ineffective on the 2nd coming. they suspect this because's what the Bible says. The literal translation of Hell from the Greek (the unique language of the recent testomony writers) is easy the grave. Adventists do no longer have faith in a hell of eternal torment, as this is unbiblical. How can devil torment sinners for ever while the Bible needless to say says that he would be held to account for his movements and destroyed? Sin won't be able to exist interior the presence of God. the effect of rejecting God is eternal separation from God. because of the fact God is existence - meaning eternal dying or a state of no life. God is a merciful God.

Answer 3

You need to be more specific.. In the old King James Bible the word Hell is used to translate more than one Greek word. The Greek ascribes different definitions to different words.. There is Hades.. (a Greek abode of the dead type of thing) and Gehenna (spelling??) which was a garbage dump where things were burned. and lastly in the Book of Revelation there is the "Lake of Fire" mentioned without being named as Hell specifically but doesn't sound like a fun place.

Answer 4

Hell is a time not a place.

Answer 5

You should read the story that Jesus told about "The rich Man and the beggar."
Luk 16:23 -28 And his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham. The rich man shouted "Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in these flames." But Abraham said to him, "Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted and you are in anguish. And besides, there is a great chasm separating us. Anyone who wanted to cross over to you from here is stopped at its edge, and no one there can cross over to us." Then the rich man said, "Please Father Abraham, send him to my father's home. For I have five brothers, and I want him to warn them about this place of torment so they won't have to come here when they die."

Answer 6

1. Satan represents indulgence instead of abstinence!

2. Satan represents vital existence instead of spiritual pipe dreams!

3. Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self-deceit!

4. Satan represents kindness to those who deserve it instead of love wasted on ingrates!

5. Satan represents vengeance instead of turning the other cheek!

6. Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!

7. Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all!

8. Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!

9. Satan has been the best friend I have ever had, as He has kept me happy all these years!

Answer 7

Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Isaiah 5:14
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Isaiah 14:15
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Exekiel 31:16
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

Matthew 5:22
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Answer 8

lake of pitfire

Answer 9

the bible does not describe hell, because it doesn't exist.