What scriptures support Hell being the grave and no more?

Answer 1

The bible has been changed. You can not trust the validity of that book so why bother. The hellfire is real go to www.spubs.com and click on the link for non-muslims. May Allah guide you, Amin.

Answer 2

No scriptures support this idea. The Bible is very clear that hell is a real place and that non-believers will suffer an eternity there. I have been reading a lot of stories of Near Death Experiences of people who go to hell and then are brought back to life and the descriptions are horrifying yet all similar. The main thing that the NDE's seem to bring back is that there is a complete lack of communication with God. There is complete loneliness and weariness. That is worse, they say, than the physical torment.

Also, fascinating to me is that there have been reports of people hearing tortured screams come out of volcanoes and cracks in the earth (the Bible supports that hell is in the earth's crust, in my opinion) and there is a passage in the Bible that talks about hell and the worm that dieth not. recently they found cracks in the bottom of the ocean where they were able to dive deeper than ever before. There is lava leaking from those cracks and they found these giant worms that live for they think at least hundreds of years. Really fascinating to read about.

If your question is do we die and that's it, there is no more, my answer would be no. Scripture does not support that anywhere. There are some great online Bibles. I'd start reading about this issue and then I'd read some of the NDE reports.

Answer 3

The book of Acts & Revelation. The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead" etc. etc. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? 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 (see the book of Revelation). However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished (and some believe that this is with torment) but many Bible text does not support this belief. Ecclesiastes 9: 5,10 and Ps. 146:4.

Answer 4

Actually, that requires an understanding of the culture of the Jewish people and of the emerging religion.

Do a look-up on Sheol -- read every word of things like the Jewish encyclopedia on the issue, and seek out a rabbi who is a Ph.D. and is either Reform or Conservative Egalitarian and ask him to help you by explaining what Sheol meant to the ancient Jews.

That will allow you to understand what the Bible is talking about. Reading verses of a quasi accurate translation of the fragmented verses we have from the early books -- will lead you to whatever conclusion the person leading you wants you to have.

The Bible is simply a bronze age book that recorded prior oral traditions (called among the Jewish scholars "the Oral Torah") and made them, over time, through the work of men -- into a book - which was then added to with the Christian scriptures after the Synod of Hippo/Council of Carthage 393/397 AD.

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Answer 5

In the Hebrew Scriptures of the Bible the word “hell” is translated from the Hebrew word sheol′. This word occurs 65 times in all. The King James Version of the Bible, however, translates sheol′ 31 times as “hell,” 31 times as “grave,” and 3 times as “pit.” The Catholic Douay Version of the Bible translates sheol′ as “hell” 63 times and as “pit” once and as “death” once. In the Christian Greek Scriptures the word “hell” is sometimes translated from the Greek word hádes. Both the King James and Douay versions translate hádes as “hell” in each of its ten occurrences. To see the meaning look at psalms 16:10 and compare Acts 2:27,31, Acts 13:35-37 see Revelation 21:8 to see what the second death is, and Revelation 20:14,15 to see what happens to hell. [e-mail]

Answer 6

Scriptures support Hell being what it says it is. This is what the scriptures say about Hell:
http://www.shalach.org/Hell/Hell.htm

Answer 7

Look not to scripture, look to the Words of Jesus Christ. Not the Words of Peter, or Paul, or Moses, but to the 4 Gospels.
Jesus tell you what hell is like and where it is.

Answer 8

It's a translation issue. Where the KJ bible translates one word two different ways (Hell, Grave), the Catholic bible only uses Hell. In my opinion, the grave makes more sense, who needs a mythical land of torture?

Answer 9

it's somewhere in the old testament in Hebrew.
and was a cremation grounds for garbage and animal carcasses and some human sarifices as gehenna not a grave per say as sheol was referred.

Answer 10

It says that Jesus will cast Satan and hell into the lake of fire. Hell is eternal torture. The torture is going to be worse once all of hell is cast into the lake of fire with Satan. That doesn't mean that hell doesn't exist right now. The bible speaks of the rich man that is in hell and he begs lacerate to come down and put a drop of water on his tongue.