Sheol: An Inferno or a Grave?

11/27/2012

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Dear Friend,

Imagine Hell… As you do, what images come to mind? Where did those images come from? Have those images been formed from what God has revealed in the Scripture? Or have the images in your mind come from the influence of pagan beliefs that have worked their way into the church? How do you know? Is your imagination more in line with Dante’s inferno or the inspired Word of God in the original writings? In your view, what is the purpose of hell? Is it possible that as a man or woman of God you have been missing something? These are a few questions I've been asked and which we will continue to look at today. Please listen to this study with your Bible in hand along with a notepad and pen to take notes. If you are blessed, encouraged, challenged, or motivated to dig into the word as a result of listening to this, please share this page with others and click "like" below.

Be blessed,
James Flanders

3 Comments

tim finch

11/27/2012 08:43:42 am

It is my understanding that the old-english word "helle' meant simply to hide something out of sight.. People of the time were said to "hell their potatoes" by putting them in a dark cellar. Could this be the idea that the scribes had who wrote the 1611 Kings Jamrs Bible? If so, when and where did we get our definition of "Hell"? Looking up HELL on Wikipedia, it is stated that Judaism had no concept of Hell as we know it. Then, how did this idea of eternal torment get into religion? Is Wikipedia correct that this concept of HELL existed before scripture was written? Can it be that this is a pagan tradition that existed before Christianity?

Mark

12/13/2012 12:46:29 pm

Very interesting and thought provoking. Just FYI, this line of theology is what the Jehovah's Witnesses believe. I have heard these same types of beliefs from my in-laws. They use some the same scriptures and make some of the same points.

jan

3/12/2015 08:31:22 am

The Greek hades is different from the sheol. This hades has 3 departments: a Tartarus where the souls of bad people suffer eternal torment; the Elysian Fields where the good people go in the afterlife. And there is department for people who had an ordinary life. So eternal torment is derived from Mythology. Like the apple tree in the garden of eden that stood in the Elysian fields. I am curently writing a book on Atlantis. It has much to do with that and with end time prophecies. I believe that Atlantis was the Hades department of the Elysian fields where the souls of the departed enjoy an after worldly life. This is the essence of the Baal religion. Dagon is the Grain god who is Quatzalcoatl.

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