WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY HELL IS ? PART (1)...IS IT THIS? OR...
THIS?
IS THIS HELL?
As a young boy I was obsessed and afraid of the Church's teachings about DEATH & HELL! I grew up in an Italian Catholic family that buried there dead in caskets, put in a tomb or the ground. The whole family would walk by the casket with our beloved family member in it and kiss our loved ones good bye. SCARY RIGHT!, remember I was a little boy just learning about life and death. So my obsession with DEATH and HELL began...I understood "DEATH," I saw it, touched it, smelled it, heard the silence, tasted it cold on my lips. I would cry until the tears stopped and then wonder," what happens to my loved ones now?"
The Catholic Church I attended taught me that the dead went to several places one being "HELL!" In the theology of some Christian denominations, mortal sin is sin that, unless forgiven and fully absolved, condemns a person to Hell after death. (MINE), Latin Infernus, Greek Hades, Hebrew Sheol.
The present article treats only of hell in the strict sense of the term.
The Latin infernus (inferum, inferi), the Greek Hades, and the Hebrew sheol correspond to the word hell. Infernus is derived from the root in; hence it designates hell as a place within and below the earth. Haides, formed from the root fid, to see, and a privative, denotes an invisible, hidden, and dark place; thus it is similar to the term hell. The derivation of sheol is doubtful. It is generally supposed to come from the Hebrew root meaning, "to be sunk in, to be hollow"; accordingly it denotes a cave or a place under the earth. In the Old Testament (Septuagint hades; Vulgate infernus) sheol is used quite in general to designate the kingdom of the dead, of the good (Genesis 37:35) as well as of the bad (Numbers 16:30); it means hell in the strict sense of the term, as well as the limbo of the Fathers. But, as the limbo of the Fathers ended at the time of Christ's Ascension, hades (Vulgate infernus) in the New Testament always designates the hell of the damned. Since Christ's Ascension the just no longer go down to the lower world, but they dwell in heaven (2 Corinthians 5:1). However, in the New Testament the term Gehenna is used more frequently in preference to hades, as a name for the place of punishment of the damned. Gehenna is the Hebrew gê-hinnom (Nehemiah 11:30), or the longer form gê-ben-hinnom (Joshua 15:8), and gê-benê-hinnom (2 Kings 23:10) "valley of the sons of Hinnom". Hinnom seems to be the name of a person not otherwise known. The Valley of Hinnom is south of Jerusalem and is now called Wadi er-rababi. It was notorious as the scene, in earlier days, of the horrible worship of Moloch. For this reason it was defiled by Josias (2 Kings 23:10), cursed by Jeremias (Jeremiah 7:31-33), and held in abomination by the Jews, who, accordingly, used the name of this valley to designate the abode of the damned (Targ. Jon., Gen., iii, 24; Henoch, c. xxvi). And Christ adopted this usage of the term. Besides Hades and Gehenna, we find in the New Testament many other names for the abode of the damned. It is called "lower hell" (Vulgate tartarus) (2 Peter 2:4), "abyss" (Luke 8:31 and elsewhere), "place of torments" (Luke 16:28), "pool of fire" (Revelation 19:20 and elsewhere), "furnace of fire" (Matthew 13:42, 50), "unquenchable fire" (Matthew 3:12, and elsewhere), "everlasting fire" (Matthew 18:8; 25:41; Jude 7), "exterior darkness" (Matthew 7:12; 22:13; 25:30), "mist" or "storm of darkness" (2 Peter 2:17; Jude 13). The state of the damned is called "destruction" (apoleia, Philippians 3:19 and elsewhere), "perdition" (olethros, 1 Timothy 6:9), "eternal destruction" (olethros aionios, 2 Thessalonians 1:9), "corruption" (phthora, Galatians 6:8), "death" (Romans 6:21), What is this?"second death"??? (Revelation 2:11 and elsewhere).
The Christian doctrine of hell derives from the teaching of the New Testament, where hell is typically described using the Greek words Tartarus or Hades or the Arabic word Gehenna.
7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
1.) Latin Infernus hence it designates hell as a place within and below the earth. (MINE) 1st. Death and in The Grave.
2.) Haides denotes denotes an invisible, hidden, and dark place; thus it is similar to the term hell. (MINE) 1st. Death and in The Grave.
3.)Sheol is generaly "to be sunk in, to be hollow"; accordingly it denotes a cave or a place under the earth. (MINE) 1st. Death and in The Grave.
I want to know what the "SECOND DEATH" is and where do "THEY?" go? And who are they?
4.) What is this? Let us find out together! "second death"??? (Revelation 2:11 and elsewhere).
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY HELL IS ? PART (2)...IS IT THIS? OR...TO BE CONTINUED...PART (2)..
As a young boy I was obsessed and afraid of the Church's teachings about DEATH & HELL! I grew up in an Italian Catholic family that buried there dead in caskets, put in a tomb or the ground. The whole family would walk by the casket with our beloved family member in it and kiss our loved ones good bye. SCARY RIGHT!, remember I was a little boy just learning about life and death. So my obsession with DEATH and HELL began...I understood "DEATH," I saw it, touched it, smelled it, heard the silence, tasted it cold on my lips. I would cry until the tears stopped and then wonder," what happens to my loved ones now?"
The Catholic Church I attended taught me that the dead went to several places one being "HELL!" In the theology of some Christian denominations, mortal sin is sin that, unless forgiven and fully absolved, condemns a person to Hell after death. (MINE), Latin Infernus, Greek Hades, Hebrew Sheol.
The present article treats only of hell in the strict sense of the term.
The Latin infernus (inferum, inferi), the Greek Hades, and the Hebrew sheol correspond to the word hell. Infernus is derived from the root in; hence it designates hell as a place within and below the earth. Haides, formed from the root fid, to see, and a privative, denotes an invisible, hidden, and dark place; thus it is similar to the term hell. The derivation of sheol is doubtful. It is generally supposed to come from the Hebrew root meaning, "to be sunk in, to be hollow"; accordingly it denotes a cave or a place under the earth. In the Old Testament (Septuagint hades; Vulgate infernus) sheol is used quite in general to designate the kingdom of the dead, of the good (Genesis 37:35) as well as of the bad (Numbers 16:30); it means hell in the strict sense of the term, as well as the limbo of the Fathers. But, as the limbo of the Fathers ended at the time of Christ's Ascension, hades (Vulgate infernus) in the New Testament always designates the hell of the damned. Since Christ's Ascension the just no longer go down to the lower world, but they dwell in heaven (2 Corinthians 5:1). However, in the New Testament the term Gehenna is used more frequently in preference to hades, as a name for the place of punishment of the damned. Gehenna is the Hebrew gê-hinnom (Nehemiah 11:30), or the longer form gê-ben-hinnom (Joshua 15:8), and gê-benê-hinnom (2 Kings 23:10) "valley of the sons of Hinnom". Hinnom seems to be the name of a person not otherwise known. The Valley of Hinnom is south of Jerusalem and is now called Wadi er-rababi. It was notorious as the scene, in earlier days, of the horrible worship of Moloch. For this reason it was defiled by Josias (2 Kings 23:10), cursed by Jeremias (Jeremiah 7:31-33), and held in abomination by the Jews, who, accordingly, used the name of this valley to designate the abode of the damned (Targ. Jon., Gen., iii, 24; Henoch, c. xxvi). And Christ adopted this usage of the term. Besides Hades and Gehenna, we find in the New Testament many other names for the abode of the damned. It is called "lower hell" (Vulgate tartarus) (2 Peter 2:4), "abyss" (Luke 8:31 and elsewhere), "place of torments" (Luke 16:28), "pool of fire" (Revelation 19:20 and elsewhere), "furnace of fire" (Matthew 13:42, 50), "unquenchable fire" (Matthew 3:12, and elsewhere), "everlasting fire" (Matthew 18:8; 25:41; Jude 7), "exterior darkness" (Matthew 7:12; 22:13; 25:30), "mist" or "storm of darkness" (2 Peter 2:17; Jude 13). The state of the damned is called "destruction" (apoleia, Philippians 3:19 and elsewhere), "perdition" (olethros, 1 Timothy 6:9), "eternal destruction" (olethros aionios, 2 Thessalonians 1:9), "corruption" (phthora, Galatians 6:8), "death" (Romans 6:21), What is this?"second death"??? (Revelation 2:11 and elsewhere).
The Christian doctrine of hell derives from the teaching of the New Testament, where hell is typically described using the Greek words Tartarus or Hades or the Arabic word Gehenna.
| Hebrew OT | Septuagint | Greek NT | times in NT | Vulgate | KJV | NIV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheol[16] | Hades | Hades[17] | x10 | infernus[18] | Hell | Hades |
| Ge Hinom[19] | Ennom[20] | Gehenna[21] | x11 | infernus | Hell | Hell |
| tartaro[22] | x1 | infernus | Hell | Hell |
These three terms have different meanings and must be recognized.
- Hades has similarities to the Old Testament term, Sheol as "the place of the dead". Thus, it is used in reference to both the righteous and the wicked, since both wind up there eventually.[23]
- Gehenna refers to the "Valley of Hinnon", which was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem. It was a place where people burned their garbage and thus there was always a fire burning there. Bodies of those deemed to have died in sin without hope of salvation (such as people who committed suicide) were thrown there to be destroyed.[24] Gehenna is used in the New Testament as a metaphor for the final place of punishment for the wicked after the resurrection.[25]
- Tartaro (the verb "throw to Tartarus") occurs only once in the New Testament in II Peter 2:4, where it is parallel to the use of the noun form in 1 Enoch as the place of incarceration of 200 fallen angels. It mentions nothing about human souls being sent there in the afterlife.
Our Summary:
Genesis 3:19,
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 (King James Version)
2.) Haides denotes denotes an invisible, hidden, and dark place; thus it is similar to the term hell. (MINE) 1st. Death and in The Grave.
3.)Sheol is generaly "to be sunk in, to be hollow"; accordingly it denotes a cave or a place under the earth. (MINE) 1st. Death and in The Grave.
I want to know what the "SECOND DEATH" is and where do "THEY?" go? And who are they?
4.) What is this? Let us find out together! "second death"??? (Revelation 2:11 and elsewhere).
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY HELL IS ? PART (2)...IS IT THIS? OR...TO BE CONTINUED...PART (2)..
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