In the King James Bible, the term "hell" is used 54 times; 31 times in the Old Testament, and 23 times in the New Testament. What is the meaning of the word "hell" in the bible? In the Old Testament, it is translated from one word, Sheol. In the New Testament, "hell" is translated from three words, tartaroo, Hades, and Gehenna. Let us look at their meanings.
Sheol (Hebrew Old Testament) / Hades (Greek New Testament):
What is the meaning of the word "hell" in the Old Testament? "Hell" is always translated from the Hebrew word Sheol (which is used 65 times in the Old Testament) and means simply "the world of the dead".
There is no hint of a place of fire (Jonah 2:1-2). Sheol is translated as "grave" 31 times, "hell" 31 times, and "pit" 3 times.
) Tartaroo [Greek New Testament]:
"Hell" is translated only one time from tartaroo, which is from the root Tartaros, which means "the deepest abyss of Hades" (2 Peter 2:4). Apparently, Peter was not writing about a place of flam
2007-06-20
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There is no hint of a place of fire (Jonah 2:1-2). Sheol is translated as "grave" 31 times, "hell" 31 times, and "pit" 3 times.
"Gehenna was a well-known valley, near Jerusalem, in which the Jews in their idolatrous days had sacrificed their children to the idol Moloch, in consequence of which it was condemned to receive the offal and refuse and sewage of the city.
2007-06-20
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3) Hinnom (Hebrew Old Testament) / Gehenna (Greek New Testament):
"Hell is translated twelve times from Gehenna (or, as it is sometimes transliterated, Geenna). This is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word Hinnom, which is the name of a valley outside Jerusalem where garbage and the carcasses of animals were cast into and consumed by fire constantly kept burning. Thus, Gehenna is the only one of those words translated as "hell" in the Bible, that has any idea of fire or torment resident in it. Look at Matthew 5:22,29-30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15,33 and Mark 9:43,45,47. It is apparent from these texts that the whole physical body is cast into Hell, and not just the soul. Gehenna is also used in Luke 12:5 and James 3:6.
2007-06-20
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http://ecclesia.org/truth/hell.html
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wefmeister - -LMAO!
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The concept of eternal punishment does not occur in the Hebrew Bible, which uses the term Sheol to designate a bleak subterranean region where the dead, good and bad alike, subsist only as impotent shadows. When Hellenistic Jewish scribes rendered the Bible into Greek, they used the word Hades to translate Sheol, bringing a whole new mythological association to the idea of posthumous existence.
Intentional mistranslation to scare us into doing things their way and most like to make themselves feel better. All of them
2007-06-20 11:22:18
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Hell is the grave. It is also a physical place and time. Mal. 4:3 A day that will burn as an oven. Rev. ?:? Be cast into the lake of fire. Time line: First advent of Christ, (then a few thousand years); Second advent of Christ (one day), one thousand years when the saved (a small portion of human kind) will be in heaven with God and Christ reviewing the record books, and the lost will all be dead here on this earth; the Third advent of Christ (after the thousand years) God, Christ, the Saints, and the New Jerusalem will descend to earth, the Unsaved will be raised, shown why they were excluded from the presence of God, and then they will be Burned to ashes, their breath of life (that God has given to each of us) will be burned up, and the very memory of them and everything associated with this life will be wiped from memory. That is why there will be NO resurrection for the second death, because the memory of God Himself will be wiped, so that not even God will be able to remember them. That will be a very bad day for most of man kind.
2007-06-20 11:34:55
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REALLY?
Well, really, the Biblical "hell", it turns out, follows close behind mankind's fiercest enemy..."death".
It turns out that "hell" is nothing more...and nothing LESS...than the grave.
In the end, "death" and "hell" must deliver up their prisoners to the Judgment of God:
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Once they have done that, it is time for Jesus to keep His promise...they are destroyed:
Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Unfortunately, it seems that there will be some who will be destroyed along with them:
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Obviously, hell cannot BE the Lake of Fire, if it is tossed INTO the Lake of Fire, and, since we know that Jesus promised to destroy death, we can be sure that whatever goes into that Lake of Fire, far from being tortured through eternity, is burnt up, or destroyed forever. No slow torture, just instant annihilation. This is the "second death"...there ain't no coming back from this one.
2007-06-20 11:42:33
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There are 162 references to HELL in the New Testament alone, over 70 of those spoken by Jesus Himself.
" He that believes (the gospel) and is baptized SHALL BE SAVED; he that believes not SHALL BE DAMNED ". - Jesus
"So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth". - Jesus (Matt. 13:49)
Jesus called it a literal place of REAL torment.
The truth about hell: http://www.av1611.org/hell.html
Scriptures about hell: http://www.rapturealert.com/ishellarealplace.html
2007-06-20 11:12:32
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answered by Anonymous
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The new testament says "an unquenchable fire".
2007-06-20 11:11:14
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answered by Anonymous
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So Jesus creates hell to torture evil....according to Reverent einstein.
2007-06-20 11:14:21
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answered by Anonymous
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hell is the grave. nothing more.
it is not a place of fire and torment.
there are many verses in the bible that describe hell like this.
the idea of a torturous hell was concoted by the churches as means of getting more converts. instill fear and take advantage.
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just for starters, john 3:16 - "...whoever beleives in me shall not perish but live an eternal life..."
if hell were a place of torture and what not, we would gain eternal life too, though it would be eternal life of torture.
not to mention many claim god is omnipresent and the only place an omnipresent being would not exist, is in the realm of non-existance.
2007-06-20 11:11:07
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answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6
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Do you really want to know?
http://www.spiritlessons.com/Documents/BillWiese_23MinutesInHell_Text.htm
2007-06-20 11:12:51
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answered by wefmeister 7
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