Is eternal hell in the original greek version of the new testament?

Answer 1

Oh yes. The Greeks were very into a concept of hell. Of course it was called the underworld and Hades lived there with his wife Persephone. There were all kinds of horrible tortures for people who were bad and all kinds of rewards for people who were good.

Oh, you want Greek New Testament. Well, it's all stolen from this other stuff anyway. As you can see, it sounds exactly the same as that other book. Only slightly more original. Of course, the Greeks stole it from the Egyptians so this stuff has been made up for quite a long time.

Answer 2

Yes. It is. You might have to read more than one word to see it though. Also, you might want to; if you really, really want to see it, read this:
Revelation 20
The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

So check me on this. Doesn't it seem that 'Hades' and 'death' were some kind of holding tank like the 'sea'? And the dead were taken out of them for this judgement that is to occur? And then whatever death is, Hades is, and the sea is ( it didn't always mean the oceans in the Bible), it held people who were to be judged, and were emptied of the people who were in them?

And then wouldn't those people be judged according to their works, which so many people think that it is what is required, if thier name was not in a book called the "Book of Life" were thrown into the "Lake of Fire" where 'death' and 'Hades' were already thrown?

So then how important is it that we call that "Hell" or not? When it seems very clear that this place that some people are thrown into is not desirable. Who would think that this place was desirable? It's called a Lake of Fire, and Death and Hades are in it. Does that sound like a good place to be?

Does it really matter what it is called. To me, that would qualify as being Hell, perhaps you don't agree.

I believe that there is a lot of discussion which is rhetorical. It actually wastes peoples time, and Atheists sites especially waste time with their unscholarly assumptions.

I hope that you can see through them.

Answer 3

There is no such thing as eternal hell. Eternal torment will be in the Lake of Fire. Hell is another word for paradise and purgatory.Where Jesus went for 3 days and preached to those who died before His birth and those who died before His death.

Answer 4

Furthermore, you pollute My name and My majesty and the glory of My Son, and that which is received only in Him, by this one doctrine of which I loathe in My zeal, (yet you embrace it, you even grab hold of it and make it your own)... Yes, the false and most perverse doctrine, called hell and eternal torment, as spoken of and taught in the churches of men!... satan’s cause! Woe, My people! Woe to you! For those who love wrath shall surely receive of it! And those, who seek torment for another, shall partake of it in the Day of The Lord!... Even now it is yours! For My hand is removed from all who uphold this doctrine and speak against this Word, even every Letter I have placed within these Volumes by My servants, who are My prophets of the end of this age... For I tell you the truth, all who know not The Son embrace torment, and all who reject this Word shall receive of it, having no more The Lord’s hand of protection upon them, My Spirit removed. My people, satan is the tormentor, and his angels follow his lead! And those who are left shall surely come to know them! Lo, they shall be caught unawares, left out in the open, exposed in the Day of The Lord!... Until that required is done and He whom you had forsaken comes in His glory, and you are once again delivered and grafted in, if you so choose to receive Him as He truly is. Therefore, pray always that you are found worthy to escape, to stand before The Son of Man in the sanctuary of The Lord in that day. For the time has come. Therefore, thus says The Lord to His people, who are not His people: Hear the Word of My mouth, and repent! Come out! Come forth from your hiding place, for it is no sanctuary! It has become a room of barred windows, a house infested, a building with a crumbling foundation fit to be demolished... A heap of sawdust easily scattered by the wind.

Answer 5

I believe you are referring to the "eternal" part more than the "hell" part....right? The results of hell are forever....the burning is not.

Answer 6

The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. 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. 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.

Reference to Gehenna appears 12 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures. Five times it is directly associated with fire. Translators have rendered the Greek expression ge´en·nan tou py·ros´ as “hell fire” (KJ, Dy), “fires of hell” (NE), “fiery pit” (AT), and “fires of Gehenna” (NAB).

Historical background: The Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) was outside the walls of Jerusalem. For a time it was the site of idolatrous worship, including child sacrifice. In the first century Gehenna was being used as the incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem. Bodies of dead animals were thrown into the valley to be consumed in the fires, to which sulfur, or brimstone, was added to assist the burning. Also bodies of executed criminals, who were considered undeserving of burial in a memorial tomb, were thrown into Gehenna. Thus, at Matthew 5:29, 30, Jesus spoke of the casting of one’s “whole body” into Gehenna. If the body fell into the constantly burning fire it was consumed, but if it landed on a ledge of the deep ravine its putrefying flesh became infested with the ever-present worms, or maggots. (Mark 9:47, 48) Living humans were not pitched into Gehenna; so it was not a place of conscious torment.

At Matthew 10:28, Jesus warned his hearers to “be in fear of him that can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” What does it mean? Notice that there is no mention here of torment in the fires of Gehenna; rather, he says to ‘fear him that can destroy in Gehenna.’ By referring to the “soul” separately, Jesus here emphasizes that God can destroy all of a person’s life prospects; thus there is no hope of resurrection for him. So, the references to the ‘fiery Gehenna’ have the same meaning as ‘the lake of fire’ of Revelation 21:8, namely, destruction, “second death.”

Many people use the illustration of Lazarus and the Rich man as proof positive of 'hell', but this is not so. Is the account, at Luke 16:19-31, literal or merely an illustration of something else? The Jerusalem Bible, in a footnote, acknowledges that it is a “parable in story form without reference to any historical personage.” If taken literally, it would mean that those enjoying divine favor could all fit at the bosom of one man, Abraham; that the water on one’s fingertip would not be evaporated by the fire of Hades; that a mere drop of water would bring relief to one suffering there. Does that sound reasonable to you? If it were literal, it would conflict with other parts of the Bible. If the Bible were thus contradictory, would a lover of truth use it as a basis for his faith? But the Bible does not contradict itself.

What does the parable mean? The “rich man” represented the Pharisees. (See verse 14.) The beggar Lazarus represented the common Jewish people who were despised by the Pharisees but who repented and became followers of Jesus. (See Luke 18:11; John 7:49; Matthew 21:31, 32.) Their deaths were also symbolic, representing a change in circumstances. Thus, the formerly despised ones came into a position of divine favor, and the formerly seemingly favored ones were rejected by God, while being tormented by the judgment messages delivered by the ones whom they had despised.—Acts 5:33; 7:54.

So, really then, we see that 'hell' was mistranslated and bent to the thinking of just a few, and not the thoughts of the One True God.

Jer. 7:31: “They [apostate Judeans] have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.” (If it never came into God’s heart, surely he does not have and use such a thing on a larger scale.)

Answer 7

Yes.

Answer 8

yes, but not the exact word "hell"