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What Does the Bible
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(1) The Bible hell (sheol/hades) is the realm of death; it is described as a place where there is no work, no device, no knowledge, nor wisdom. -- Ecclesiastes 9:10 - many translations render "sheol" as "the grave" here.
(2) The only Old Testament word translated hell is sheol, to which the New Testament word hades corresponds.
(3) In the King James translation of the Bible, sheol and hades are translated hell 41 times, grave 32 times and pit 3 times and frequently when translated hell, the margin reads, "or, the grave," or vice vera. -- Psalm 49:15; 55:15; 86:13; Isaiah 14:9; Jonah 2:2; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Revelation 20:13.
(4) Many translations transliterate the words sheol and hades.
(5) Satan is a liar and the father of the lie. (John 8:44) It is Satan who has the world believing that a person does not really die, therefore he lies to the world that those who are bad are roasting somewhere for all eternity, thus making God appear to be some kind of fiend. With such a view being loudly presented by the traditionalists, no wonder thousands are turning away from the Bible and going to paganism, agnosticism and atheism. The doctrine of eternal roasting is a blasphemy to the Creator. Indeed, those who claim to be friends of the Bible are often its worst enemies.
(6) Satan uses all kinds of deceptive means to continue his lies, including spiritism, hypnotism, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, etc. "And when they say to you, 'Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,' should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." -- Isaiah 8:19,20, New King James Version.
(7) Contrary to the idea that any part of hell is a place of fire, torture, shrieks, etc., the Bible says, "There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave [sheol], whither thou goest"; "in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave [sheol] who shall give thee thanks"; "the grave [sheol] cannot praise thee: death cannot celebrate thee." -- Ecclesiastes 9:10; Psalm 6:5; Isaiah 38:18.
(8) Good people, as well as bad, go to sheol (hell) at death: e.g., Jacob went down to sheol (Genesis 37:35); Job prayed to go to sheol, to be hidden there, until the resurrection (Job 14:13). Nor do the good go to a section of sheol called "paradise" at death. (Paradise is never depicted as a section of sheol or hades.) Instead of going to paradise at death, David expected to be in condition in sheol where he could not give thanks to Yahweh and we further read that "the grave [sheol] cannot praise thee; death cannot celebrate thee." -- Psalm 6:5; Isaiah 38:18.
(9) Jesus "poured out his soul unto death" (Isaiah 53:10, 12; Matthew 26:38), and descended into hell, but "his soul was not left in hell [sheol/hades - a state of unknowing]." -- Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27, 31.
(10) In old English the word hell simply meant to hide or to cover - helling potatoes meant putting them into pits, helling a house meant covering or thatching it, etc.; the word hell was therefore properly used as signifying the secret or hidden condition of death. It had no reference whatever to a place of torture until that meaning was attached to it by the theologians of the Dark Ages.
(11) Accordingly, hell (sheol or hades) means the unconscious, oblivious condition or realm of death, where all souls, good and bad, go at death, and from which only the awakening from death can deliver any.
(12) When God told Adam of sin's penalty, He did not say, "In the day that you eat from it you will live forever in torture," but He told him the truth: "thou shalt surely die [i.e., cease to live- or "dying, thou shalt die" - margin of KJV]." -- Genesis 2:17.
(13) Adam began to die in that very (dying, thou shalt die -- see KJV margin) day he ate the forbidden fruit.
(14) Contradicting God, Satan told the lie (John 8:44), "Ye shall not surely die" (Genesis 3:4), by which he has since deceived many into believing that the dead are not really dead, but that at death they live on, and, without waiting for the resurrection day, go directly into heaven or into eternal torment; whereas the Bible states plainly that "the dead know not any thing". Thus "the dead praise not [Yahweh], neither any that go down into silence"; that "his sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them". Additionally, Abraham and Israel (Jacob) in sheol are "ignorant of us." -- Ecclesiastes 9:5; Psalm 115:17; Job 14:21; Isaiah 63:16.
(15) The Bible states plainly that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4, 20); that "the wages of sin is death [cessation of life-not life in roasting]; but the gift of Go
What Does the Bible
Really Say About Hell?
Snyder Bible ArcCenter Home Essays
(1) The Bible hell (sheol/hades) is the realm of death; it is described as a place where there is no work, no device, no knowledge, nor wisdom. -- Ecclesiastes 9:10 - many translations render "sheol" as "the grave" here.
(2) The only Old Testament word translated hell is sheol, to which the New Testament word hades corresponds.
(3) In the King James translation of the Bible, sheol and hades are translated hell 41 times, grave 32 times and pit 3 times and frequently when translated hell, the margin reads, "or, the grave," or vice vera. -- Psalm 49:15; 55:15; 86:13; Isaiah 14:9; Jonah 2:2; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Revelation 20:13.
(4) Many translations transliterate the words sheol and hades.
(5) Satan is a liar and the father of the lie. (John 8:44) It is Satan who has the world believing that a person does not really die, therefore he lies to the world that those who are bad are roasting somewhere for all eternity, thus making God appear to be some kind of fiend. With such a view being loudly presented by the traditionalists, no wonder thousands are turning away from the Bible and going to paganism, agnosticism and atheism. The doctrine of eternal roasting is a blasphemy to the Creator. Indeed, those who claim to be friends of the Bible are often its worst enemies.
(6) Satan uses all kinds of deceptive means to continue his lies, including spiritism, hypnotism, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, etc. "And when they say to you, 'Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,' should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." -- Isaiah 8:19,20, New King James Version.
(7) Contrary to the idea that any part of hell is a place of fire, torture, shrieks, etc., the Bible says, "There is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave [sheol], whither thou goest"; "in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave [sheol] who shall give thee thanks"; "the grave [sheol] cannot praise thee: death cannot celebrate thee." -- Ecclesiastes 9:10; Psalm 6:5; Isaiah 38:18.
(8) Good people, as well as bad, go to sheol (hell) at death: e.g., Jacob went down to sheol (Genesis 37:35); Job prayed to go to sheol, to be hidden there, until the resurrection (Job 14:13). Nor do the good go to a section of sheol called "paradise" at death. (Paradise is never depicted as a section of sheol or hades.) Instead of going to paradise at death, David expected to be in condition in sheol where he could not give thanks to Yahweh and we further read that "the grave [sheol] cannot praise thee; death cannot celebrate thee." -- Psalm 6:5; Isaiah 38:18.
(9) Jesus "poured out his soul unto death" (Isaiah 53:10, 12; Matthew 26:38), and descended into hell, but "his soul was not left in hell [sheol/hades - a state of unknowing]." -- Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:27, 31.
(10) In old English the word hell simply meant to hide or to cover - helling potatoes meant putting them into pits, helling a house meant covering or thatching it, etc.; the word hell was therefore properly used as signifying the secret or hidden condition of death. It had no reference whatever to a place of torture until that meaning was attached to it by the theologians of the Dark Ages.
(11) Accordingly, hell (sheol or hades) means the unconscious, oblivious condition or realm of death, where all souls, good and bad, go at death, and from which only the awakening from death can deliver any.
(12) When God told Adam of sin's penalty, He did not say, "In the day that you eat from it you will live forever in torture," but He told him the truth: "thou shalt surely die [i.e., cease to live- or "dying, thou shalt die" - margin of KJV]." -- Genesis 2:17.
(13) Adam began to die in that very (dying, thou shalt die -- see KJV margin) day he ate the forbidden fruit.
(14) Contradicting God, Satan told the lie (John 8:44), "Ye shall not surely die" (Genesis 3:4), by which he has since deceived many into believing that the dead are not really dead, but that at death they live on, and, without waiting for the resurrection day, go directly into heaven or into eternal torment; whereas the Bible states plainly that "the dead know not any thing". Thus "the dead praise not [Yahweh], neither any that go down into silence"; that "his sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them". Additionally, Abraham and Israel (Jacob) in sheol are "ignorant of us." -- Ecclesiastes 9:5; Psalm 115:17; Job 14:21; Isaiah 63:16.
(15) The Bible states plainly that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4, 20); that "the wages of sin is death [cessation of life-not life in roasting]; but the gift of Go