Hell Fire

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Hell Fire

• he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
  the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever
  and ever - Revelation 1410-11

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Agenda

• Look how the word hell is used in the Bible
• Old Testament Hebrew
• New Testament Greek
• Compare Bible Doctrine of Hell with popular
  doctrine of hell
• Answer the question of what happens to us when we
  die

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Hell as a Word

• Origin is Anglo-Saxon Covered or hidden place
• Compare
• Helmet - head cover
• Heler - tiler or thatcher of roofs
• Heling potatoes - to cover with dirt (plant)

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In the Old Testament

• Sheol is translated
• concealed or covered place
• grave
• PSALM 4914

• Like sheep they are laid in the grave death
  shall feed on them and the upright shall have
  dominion over them in the morning and their
  beauty shall consume in the grave from their
  dwelling

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In the Old Testament

• Sheol is translated
• concealed or covered place
• grave
• PSALM 4914
• PSALM 4915

• But God will redeem my soul from the power of
  the grave for he shall receive me.

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In the Old Testament

• Sheol is translated
• concealed or covered place
• grave
• PSALM 4914
• PSALM 4915
• ECCLESIASTES 910

• Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
  thy might for there is no work, nor device, nor
  knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou
  goest

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In the Old Testament

• Sheol is translated
• concealed or covered place
• grave
• PSALM 4914
• PSALM 4915
• ECCLESIASTES 910
• ISAIAH 1415

• Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the
  sides of the pit

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In the New Testament

• Three Greek Words used
• Hades
• Gehenna
• Tartaroo

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In the New Testament

• Hades
• The unseen or hidden, invisible place
• Identical to HebrewSheol
• Translated from Sheol to Hades in Septuagint
  version
• and death and hell delivered up the dead which
  were in them (Revelation 2012 - see marg.)

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In the New Testament

• Gehenna - Jerusalem's Rubbish Tip

HinnomPronounced As hnom , valley, W and S of
Jerusalem. Its ill repute in the Bible emanated
from the worship there of foreign gods, including
supposed child sacrifice to Molech at Tophet. In
later Jewish literature it was called Ge-Hinnom
Heb.,valley of Hinnom and in the Greek of the
New Testament, Gehenna. A place for burning
refuse in later Israelite times, it provided
imagery for a fiery Hell in the Books of Isaiah
and the New Testament. It appears as Jahannam in
the Qur'an.
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In the New Testament

• Tartaroo - occurs only once
• For if God spared not the angels that sinned,
  but cast them down into hell, and delivered them
  into chains of darkness to be reserved unto
  judgement (2 Peter 24)
• Straight from Greek Methology

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Tartarus

• Homer makes Zeus say,
• I will cast him into misty tartaros deepest
  gulf beneath the earth
• ( Iliad 8,13)

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Tartarus
Hera (queen of the Olympian gods, daughter of
Kronos and Rhea. ) called all the gods, even
those below Tartaros (Iliad 14,279)
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The Bible Doctrine

• Hell in the Bible simply signifies the Grave
• The translators have been inconsistent through
  bias
• The same word is translated both grave hell

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The Popular Doctrine

• Hell is a place where the spirits of the wicked
  go.
• Presided over by the devil
• who with the demons, perpetrates torment by fire
• The idea came originally from Paganism - Greek
  methology

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The Church Doctrine of Hell Falls

• It depends on the false teaching of the
  immortality of the Soul
• The wicked die and corrupt in the grave, not in
  eternal fire

• The soul that sinneth, it shall die -
  (Ezekiel 184,20)
• He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the
  second death - (Revelation 211)

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Gods Character Denied

• Would an all powerful God allow an angel to
  disobey Him?
• Would a merciful God allow eternal torment?
• What would you think of a man who tortured a
  savage dog for a week?

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the servant which new his lords will shall be
beaten with many stripes he that knew not
shall be beaten with few stripes (Luke 1247-48)
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They are dead, they shall not live they are
deceased, they shall not rise (Isaiah 2614)
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He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved but he that believeth not shall be
damned (Mark 1616)
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When the Son of man shall come in his glory he
shall separate them one from another, as a
shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats
(Matthew 2531-32)
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He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the
second death (Revelation 211)
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He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the
second death (Revelation 211)
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Who will render to every man according to his
deeds (Romans 26)
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Whats the best thing to do

• Read the Bible
• Believe in the Bible
• Be Baptized
• Obey Gods commands
• Try to be the best that we can in our lives

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