Thus hell is translated from words that are in the origianl text. However, since the times of people like Dante, the meaning of hell has been changed in peoples minds so that the churches now teach hell as a place of torment. In the original scriptures this was not so.|||I believe it is called the "underworld" or "netherworld". We have different words in english but it means the same thing. The evil spirits and death is there.
~Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest [hell], and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
~PSALM 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into [hell], and all the nations that forget God.
~PSALM 9:17 The wicked shall return to the [nether-world], even all the nations that forget God.
What is nether-world to your understanding? Isn't it clear another world where God is not present.
God bless you!|||If, you research the King James translators and the Bible before them (except any catholic versions, because they are from corrupt MSS found in a trash can), you'll find out the KJV is closest to the "originals",...and the word "hell" is correct. Unless UR a JW, then the NWT or NIV UR using is the same as a catholic bible from those corrupt MSS.
How do you know what the "originals" really said? No body has seen them, they are turned to dust.
Some "authority figure" told you false infor, cause thats what he was taught.
Google "King James AV Holy Bible truth" and see what U find.|||γε?εννα
geenna
gheh'-en-nah
Of Hebrew origin ([H1516] and [H2011]); valley of (the son of) Hinnom; gehenna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment: - hell.
Yes...it really is. About 20 places.|||Your question should be amended to "Christian" Bible translators. As you can see from Melkah's answer, the Hebrew Bible does not include the word hell. The word is "sheol," which simply means grave. The root of the word means question, as in one goes down into the "unknown."
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Hell - Hebrew word - Sheol, literally pit for the dead, grave. The dead are conscious of nothing. Hell is the grave, none born miss it.
The xtian church stole the concept of eternal fiery torment from the ancient Greeks. Hades, god of the underworld, ruler of the kingdom of eternal fiery torment. The church stole this idea to control the people in both life and death. Final touches added by Dante's Inferno and Paradise lost - John Milton.
Ooo, popular literature for doctrine !
From as many times a day as I type this, I say it has not only worked well for them in the past, but keeps working for them now and will continue to do so in the future until people begin to challenge them and search for the true definition of hell as being the grave.
Fear G*D and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiates 12:13
G*D, Noachidism and Judaism teach if you keep these 7 laws you will have an equal share in the world to come.
* To behave justly in all relationships, and to establish courts of justice.
* To refrain from blaspheming Gods name.
* To refrain from practicing idolatry.
* To avoid immoral practices, specifically incest and adultery.
* To avoid shedding the blood of ones fellow man.
* To refrain from robbing ones fellow man.
* To refrain from eating a limb torn from a live animal.
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www.okbns.org|||Neither does the Watch Tower Society send out professional pledge takers who parrot the sales talks of financial wizards by telling congregations that “statistics show that your family, your business, and your community will prosper in accordance with what you and others give. The more you invest therein the more you will get out.” Nor does it send out church canvassers as did the Episcopal church of the diocese of Long Island, New York, late in 1954, when 3,500 canvassers sought to collect 4?1?2 million dollars for that church. No; the Watch Tower Society does not solicit and never has solicited funds by any such means, for it holds that it is doing the work of God and therefore it would be most inconsistent for it to beg help for carrying on God’s work when he states that all the gold and silver and the cattle on a thousand hills belong to him.—Hag. 2:8; Ps. 50:10.
GOD PUTS IT IN THEIR HEART
Was it necessary for Moses to canvass the Israelites for supplies with which to build and furnish the tent of meeting in the wilderness? Why, upon the mere announcement that willing-hearted ones could make contributions the people gave so generously that they had to be restrained, for “the stuff proved to be enough for all the work to be done, and more than enough.”—Ex. 36:6, 7, NW.
The same spirit of generous giving was apparent at the time David gathered the necessary materials for the temple Solomon was to build. Their value has been estimated at thousands of millions of dollars, David’s gifts alone being valued at some one hundred million. No wonder he was caused to exclaim in prayer to Jehovah: “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.”—1?Chron. 29:14, AS.
Jehovah changes not, neither do his principles change, nor do those who truly know and love him change. By means of his Word, his earthly organization and his enlightening holy spirit, he is making known to men of good will just what a wonderful God he is, perfect in wisdom, love, justice and power; what he has done, is doing and will yet do, and therefore how right and wise it is for us to devote our all to him and to his cause. All who can possibly do so devote their entire time thereto, and those who cannot give what they can in the way of time, energy, influence and means. Yes, it is God-inspired giving that provides the financial sinews for world-wide preaching of this good news of God’s kingdom. He it is who puts it into their hearts to want to give even as Nehemiah spoke of his activity in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem as being that which “my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem.”—Neh. 2:12, RS.
Just as Moses and David caused announcements to be made advising the Israelites of their privilege to contribute toward Jehovah’s worship, so the Watch Tower Society once each year brings to the attention of those dedicated to Jehovah’s cause their privilege to make contributions for the work of preaching this good news of the Kingdom in all the world for a witness. That the Society may properly plan its work it seems best that those who are in position to make contributions throughout the year advise the Society in advance as to what they hope to be able to give. This is in no sense of the word a pledge, for the Society will not at the end of the year make a comparison between what you hoped to do and what you actually did, but merely an expression on your part of your prospective contribution, and therefore such expressions are properly called “your contribution prospects.” Should any not wish to make such expression, that is perfectly all right.|||What a word is and how it is spelled does not matter. It is the meaning of the word that matters: The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God - Psalm 9:17.
Her house is the way to hell, descending to the chambers of death - Proverbs 7:27. That's about a seducing, immoral woman (v.5). The Hebrew word for hell means the OT designation for the abode of the dead, wicked sent there for punishment, righteous not abandoned to it.
Jesus said, "Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?" - Matthew 23:33. The Greek word for hell means the place of the future punishment called Gehenna or Gehenna of fire. This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and the dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction.
Jesus said, "hell fire" (Matthew 5:22).
"Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, you men of... lest My fury come forth like FIRE, and BURN so that NO ONE can QUENCH it, because of the evil of your doings." - Jeremiah 4:4.
His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out (to eliminate the bad from the good) His threshing floor, and gather His wheat (us saved ones) into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff (worthless, unrepentive sinners) with UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. (Matt. 3:12)
Jesus said, "Then He will say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the EVERLASTING FIRE prepared for the devil and his angels'... These will go away into EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, but the righteous into eternal life." - Matthew 25:41-46.
since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you... in FLAMING FIRE taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power - 2 Thes. 1:6-9.
May God bless you.|||Hell is want to, but can't.
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.
-- Ellen DeGeneres|||This should answer your questions:
? Hell: an excessive punishment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaL7CkQaQ…|||Several reasons:
1. Pressure of the Church
2. Influence of the KIng
3. Miltons poem "Paradise Lost"
4.Dante's Inferno
etc, etc,|||yes a place for the spiritual rebellious against god is in the scriptures
it is mentioned
it does not mean the grave as some falsely claim it does|||Hell is derived from the Saxon helan-hence the covered or invisible place.|||Der, English isn't in the original scriptures. That's why.
Use your head.|||Why not, the rest of it was invented by mankind anyway.|||because. LOL|||blame it on Dante|||.
The whole truth about "Hell" as described in the Bible
The word “hell” is used 54 times in the KJ Bible. It is translated from several different words with various meanings, as indicated below:
In the Old Testament:
? 31 times from the Hebrew “Sheol,” which means “the grave”
In the New Testament:
? 10 times from the Greek “Hades,” which means “the grave”
? 12 times from the Greek “Gehenna,” which means “a place of burning”
? 1 time from the Greek “Tartarus,” which means “a place of darkness” specially prepared for angels that have sinned.
Hell-fire What is that ?
Most people misunderstand the nature of Hell-fire. God doesn't HAVE to let people go there. People think it's better for those people just to suffer in sin?
According to the Bible, Hell-fire does not yet exist, but will at the end of the Millennium. When people die (both the righteous and the wicked they go to their grave = hell), they do not go directly to Heaven or Hell-fire, nor do they "float around" as ghosts. They both remain in the grave, in a state of "sleep" where they have absolutely no consciousness of anything, nor the passage of time, until Christ returns. At that time, Christ will resurrect the Saved of all time back to permanent, physical life and take them with Him to Heaven, while the Wicked living at that time will be slain by the brightness of His coming. Both they and the Wicked dead of all time shall remain dead for another 1,000 years. During that time, all life on this Earth will be dead, and Satan will be trapped here on this dark, dismal planet littered with corpses during that Millennium. At the end of the 1,000 years, Christ will return with His Saved to judge the wicked (who will be resurrected into their old, mortal bodies), including Satan and his angels. Every person will see every sin they've ever committed. Satan will attempt to lead them in an attack on the New Jerusalem, but then Hellfire will rain down from Heaven and consume them all. They will be instantly and permanently incinerated, never to exist again. They will NOT be "tortured forever", as the pagan idea of Catholicism suggests. This is not scriptural. Even Satan and his angels will be destroyed in the fires of Hell-fire; he will NOT be tending it, poking people with a pitchfork!
The fire will completely cover planet Earth from pole to pole, burning up EVERYTHING, even the elements themselves, and all the ocean water will be evaporated. It will completely remove all trace of sin and sinners forever. Once its work is finished, it will burn out on its own. Some people use the Biblical verse that says the fire will be "unquenchable", but that only means that it cannot be PUT out, but it will burn out on its own.
Once this fire has burned out, then God will set about to re-creating the Earth the way it was in the Beginning - perfect, beautiful and unspoiled. Then the Saved of all time will be allowed to live on it, and build permanent homes and grow their own food. All the animals will be friendly, even former meat-eaters. I'm really looking forward to it.
May God bless you as you study His Word
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