Did Jesus bring hell as well as heaven with him? Was there no hell before Jesus came?

Question

The old testament just mentions sheol where everyone went:

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, [2] for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going"

king of kinks fireball? Freudian slip?

Answer 1

jesus went to hell for 3 days

and on the third day he rose to heaven

so technically i guess he brought hell into the picture

it was there long before he was just as heaven was also

he fought the evil spirits in hell

Answer 2

Yes you are partially correct. The Christian ideas of Heaven and Hell are not the same as Jesus and his disciples would have understood them. Jesus did not bring them with him , Christians are ignorant of the meaning of their own scripture , they just don’t know how to read the Bible correctly.

All the ‘ Hell ‘ words in the Bible are Mistranslations Sheol , Hades , Gehenna and Tartarus ... none of these are Hell , they have all been Mistranslated as Hell by prejudice and bias Biblical authors more interested in supporting their faith rather than producing faithful translations. These days we are starting to get Bibles without the word Hell in it.

Heaven is the Dwelling place of God only , Shekinah, the space between the two Cherubim on the Ark of the covenant , behind the 2nd curtain in the Most Holy Place . All Jews , including Jesus and the 12 disciples know that only God exists Heaven , not anything or anyone else , not even Jesus

Answer 3

4 Webster’s Dictionary says that the English word “hell” is equal to the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades. In German Bibles Hoelle is the word used instead of “hell”; in Portuguese the word used is inferno, in Spanish infierno, and in French Enfer. The English translators of the Authorized Version, or King James Version, translated Sheol 31 times as “hell,” 31 times as “grave,” and 3 times as “pit.” The Catholic Douay Version translated Sheol 64 times as “hell.” In the Christian Greek Scriptures (commonly called the “New Testament”), the King James Version translated Hades as “hell” each of the 10 times it occurs.—Matthew 11:23; 16:18; Luke 10:15; 16:23; Acts 2:27, 31; Revelation 1:18; 6:8; 20:13, 14.
The teaching about burning in Hell is a false religious concept that many churches taught to get people in to pay, thinking they could pay their loved ones out of hell. Started in the mother church and spread to all daughter churches of Christendom.

Answer 4

There are several words for 'hell' in the original Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek of the Bible: Sheol, Hades and Gehenna. The first two basically refer to the place of the dead - the grave. Gehenna refers to the place outside the walls of Jerusalem, in the Valley of Hinnon where they used to burn the rubbish of the city, even it is said, the bodies were thrown there of murderers etc.

So the mental image that Jesus was showing of total destruction was one that they would have been familiar with.

These words do just refer to death and were obviously equally relevant in the Hebrew form for people in Old Testament times.

Heaven is heaven and is still where God is and the Lord Jesus Christ. However the Bible does not tell us that we go there.

Answer 5

No. Both Hell and Heaven existed before Jesus came to earth. God created Heaven when he created everything else. Hell was created when Satan disobeyed. When Adam and Eve sinned, the gates of Heaven were closed so that is why every good person who died before Jesus died on the cross went to Sheol. When Jesus died, the gates of Heaven were opened again and the good people that had been waiting in Sheol went to Heaven.

Answer 6

Actually hell, or as the Bible also calls the lake of fire, is still in the future. Sheol, or the place of the dead, is where those who do not place their faith in the coming Messiah go upon death. Paradise is the place for the redeemed.

I believe the same holds true today. The book of Revelation says that at the final judgment, all those whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire which is the second death.

The apostle John says, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the former things are passed away. And He that sat upon the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new.'" That is what those who know Christ as Savior have to look forward to for eternity.

So, the final eternal state for unbelievers as well as believers is still to come. Meanwhile, those who have not trusted Christ as their Savior will go to a place of suffering, and those who have will go to be with God until our final "destinations", if you will, have come to pass.

Did Jesus bring Hell with Him? Of course not. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. In fact, the Bible says that hell was not created for man but for the devil and his angels. Unfortunately, there are people who will also rebell against God and suffer the same fate.

Answer 7

In Matthew ch25 v 41 - "Be gone from me you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels" -- this i believe is what we call hell.

Luke16v23 KJV speaks of hell...

This is a lot of reading but might help answer your question... www.yeshuatyisrael.com/sheol --
i think this is the best one.

If you search for 'sheol' you will find different opinions - and some JW's teaching is very different to Christian teaching - just thought I'd let you know...

Answer 8

Sheol is nothing more than a grave.
Fire brimstone hell was invented in the middle ages.

Answer 9

Not only was there no hell before Jesus came to the Earth, there continued to be none afterwards. God is love and is a God of supreme justice. It would make no just and loving sense to burn someone for all eternity for some moral crimes or sins they commited during there Earthly life time which only lasted a few decades. The hope of the Bible is a resurrection onto the earth, and everlasting life on the the earth thereafter. Those who die as a punishment of God simply cease to exist for all eterity. Jesus used fire and smke as an illustration of punishment after death because there was a place outside Jerusalem where executed criminals, etc, who were ordinarily to be denied an honourable burial, but were burned. There bodies did not remain whole after this process but were destroyed. Death is similarly a punishment only involving destruction and not torture.

Answer 10

Sheol means the grave not hell. Because if it means hell, then the Bible is saying that everyone goes to hell and that is not true. But everyone does goes to a grave, or at least everyone should.

Answer 11

Hell was around before Jesus came. Read the book of Ezekiel in the old testament. Hell was a place prepared for Satan and the Demons. Heaven is used to described as a place where we will be at one with God, and so that also existed before Jesus came to Earth. The problem is that our sinful human nature will not allow us into Heaven. Every one of us has been tainted by selfish attitudes, wrong doings- sin. In the Gospels we see that Jesus came to earth not to bring heaven with him, but take the punishment for our sin. All the things that taint us and prevent us from entering heaven and being at one with God were nailed to the cross with Jesus. We just need to acknowledge that Jesus did that for us, and then make a concious effort to turn away from our sinful ways, then we will be cleansed and will be able to enter heaven. Note that we have to make a concious effort to turn from sinful ways, that doesn't mean that we won't mess up from time to time. God will continue to forgive us when we do. Only by allowing God access to our lives, and having his spirit within us to guide us, will be able to live a life that is worthy of God. I pray that you will know the power of Jesus in your life. Keep asking these kinds of questions and God will reveal himself to you.