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DB1-- Is There a Burning Hell?-----From
2001 Translation
The concept of a burning Hell,
where people are tortured eternally, is often thought of as a Bible teaching. It
isn’t. Rather, the whole concept of a Hell as people see it today,
where the bad are sent to an underground world that is ruled by an evil God,
comes from the Pagan Greek Mythology
of Hades, the River Styx, and the underworld god, Pluto. Also See
Wikipedia at the End of This Article.
However, Jesus and his Apostles
did speak of Hades, Jesus did tell the story of someone who was there and being
tortured, and there are numerous places in the Bible where we read of a ‘lake
of fire,’ and of people being burned there eternally. So, why have we concluded
that there is no such thing as a burning Hell? For an answer, let’s look at the
history and uses of the word Hell in the Bible.
The Hebrew word that is often
translated as Hell is Sheol. And in the King
James Bible, for instance, Sheol is translated
variously as Hell, the grave, and the pit. The reason why these three different
and conflicting terms were used, is because too many of the Bible references
simply disprove the common concept of Hell Fire. So, in the many instances
where the word obviously couldn’t mean a place of torture, Sheol
is usually translated as grave. For example, at Job
And at
Ecclesiastes 9:3-6 we read, ‘For the hearts of the sons of men are filled with
evil and madness throughout their lives… and then they die. Then what
association do they have with the living? They have no hope, because a live dog
is better off than a dead lion. For the living know that they’re going to die, but
the dead don’t know anything, nor do they have any reward, because they’ve
been forgotten. Also, their love, hatred, and envy are now gone, and they won’t
have any part in anything that is done under the sun through the ages of ages.’
Then in verse 10 we read, ‘Do
whatever you can find to do with your hands, because in the grave (heb. Sheol) where you’re going, there is no work,
learning, knowledge, or wisdom.’
Because of this, most Bible
scholars admit that the ancient Hebrews (and the ‘Old Testament” in general)
had no concept of a Hell. So, did that idea come along with Jesus and the Greek
‘New Testament?’
It is interesting that the
Greek Septuagint (the first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek), which
predated Jesus’ earthly life by almost two-hundred years, translated the Hebrew
word Sheol as Hades in each instance where it was
found. So, we must conclude that both words (Sheol
and Hades) carried the same meaning… which (in the Hebrew text) means ‘the
place of the dead’ or ‘the grave.’ And remember that the Bible that many Jews
used in Jesus’ time was the Greek Septuagint.
So, when Jesus came along, the
typical Jewish use of the word Hades didn’t carry the meaning of the underworld
place of Greek Mythology, it meant The Place of the Dead.
Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Did Jesus Teach that Hades was Hell Fire?
However, Jesus used the word hades in his story of ‘the Rich Man and Lazarus,’ which many
claim was a description of a burning Hell… but was it? Not if you look at what
Jesus was describing when he told the story. Notice the circumstances at Luke 16:14-16, ‘Now, the
Pharisees (who loved silver) were listening to these things and were looking at
him with contempt. So, he said to them, You
are the ones who claim to be righteous in front of men, but God knows your
hearts. Things that are considered important by men are disgusting in God’s eyes.’
Then he went on to make the
following two points:
First, (at Luke
Then, (at Luke
Were the Pharisees rich? Not
necessarily (although many were), but because they were educated, they were
considered ‘spiritually rich’ by the common people. However, with the death of
Jesus, this condition would be changed. They would no longer be the spiritual
leaders of God’s people.
Jesus also spoke of a ‘poor
man’ class, called Lazarus (a common Jewish name at the time). This man also
‘died.’ Notice that Lazarus hadn’t really done anything righteous; his only
virtue was that he was extremely poor. However, he was ‘carried off into the
favor of Abraham.’
Was that heaven? It couldn’t
have been, because Jesus said (at John
Then, what was Jesus talking
about? Well, this lowly, begging condition is similar to what the common people
of
So, the second point that Jesus
was making (and which the Pharisees doubtlessly, at least partially understood)
is that, because they had failed to learn from the Law and the prophets, their
high position was being taken away and given to common people.
As you can see, this story isn’t a tale that describes
the torture of Hell Fire, it was an allegory or parable that Jesus told as a
warning to the Pharisees that despite (and because of) their pride, they were
soon to lose their elevated position as religious leaders (those in the favored
position of Abraham).
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Gehenna
Another word that Jesus used to
describe the outcome for the wicked was Gehenna. It
is usually translated as ‘Hell Fire,’ as opposed to ‘Hades,’ which is usually
translated as ‘Hell’ in other Bibles. Gehenna is the
valley that bordered the SSW wall of
But, didn’t Jesus say (at Mark
Oh yes,
other Bibles render this verse, ‘than to be cast into Hell Fire where the worms
dieth not and the fire is not quenched.’ However,
remember that Jesus was talking about a garbage dump, when he said (in Greek),
‘hopou ho skolex auton ou teleuta
kai to pyr ou sbennutai,’ or, where
the maggot of/them not finished and the fire not extinguished.’ Obviously,
most ancient garbage dumps were kept burning and there were always maggots
living there. So, does this natural description of a garbage dump really prove
eternal torment? We feel that the answer is clear.
But, what about Jesus’ words at Matthew
Well, notice how Luke phrased
these same words of Jesus at Luke 12:5, ‘Let me show you who it is that you
should be afraid of: Fear him, who after killing also has the authority to
throw you into the garbage dump. Fear Him!’
So, Jesus wasn’t really
offering immortality to the wicked, which would be required if they lived
forever, for the Bible shows that it was only offered to the righteous (see 1 Corinthians
The
Ah, but those who wish to
believe in a burning Hell for everyone who disagrees with them, point to ‘the
No, for notice what Revelation
So, what Bible translators have
called Hell (Hades) will be thrown into something else they call Hell, the lake
of fire, which the Bible says is simply the second (or eternal) death.
And did you notice that death would be thrown there, as well as two political
organizations (the wild animal and the false prophet)? So, the torture must be
symbolic.
Tartarus
2 Peter
2:4 speaks of ‘messengers’ who were put into ‘Tartarus’
for bad acts they committed during the time of Noah. Genesis 6:3 calls them
‘sons of God,’ and it tells of their coming to earth and marrying ‘the
daughters of men’ (see the linked scripture and the linked notes).
Peter’s
use of the word Tartarus here has long been a
cause of concern to thoughtful Bible students. In other Bibles, this Greek word
has wrongfully been translated as Hell and Hell Fire. However, the
term (from Greek Mythology) refers specifically to the place where gods (not
humans) were sent. And as the result of past misunderstandings as to the
meaning of this word, many have come to believe that the Slanderer and his
demons are in Hell watching over its flames and torturing human souls.
The
question that has so concerned many Bible students is, why did Peter use this
pagan term that comes from Greek Mythology to describe the condition of
unfaithful messengers of God? The appearance here is that the Bible had its
roots in Greek myths. However, the opposite is true.
Anyone
who takes the time to carefully consider Greek Mythology, will notice close
(but sometimes opposite) parallels to Bible stories told in Genesis Chapters
Two through Six. Stories such as Hercules and the Golden Apples, Medusa,
immoral Gods who came to earth, etc., seem to closely resemble the stories of
Adam and the forbidden fruit, the snake in the Paradise, and the sons of God
who came to earth and lived as humans. So, it isn’t surprising that they also
had a name for the place where these sons of God (the gods) were sent after the
downpour. And since this correct idea was common at the time, Peter just used
their word to convey what he was talking about to his readers.
Since these ‘sons of God’ who
came to earth and assumed human bodies in Noah’s day couldn’t be destroyed by
the downpour (flood) and they had forsaken heaven, they were apparently put
into a prison-like state here on the earth, where they are no longer able to
roam. This group is specifically referred to as the demons in the Bible.
Demon is a Greek word that
seems to be derived from diameno, which means fixed
in one place. From other Bible accounts about demons, it appears that this
‘fixing in one place’ means that they must be associated with either living or
non-living things, which is referred to as ‘possession.’ After all, Jesus and
his Apostles cast out many demons… and they even spoke to Jesus. So, Tartarus appears not to be just one place, but rather to a
dark condition of earthly imprisonment where demons seem to be able to live
among things both animate and inanimate.
The Immortal Soul
Problem
One of the reasons why there
can be no Hell of eternal torture is because a person would need an ‘immortal
soul’ to be sent there. In other words, a portion of his or her personality
would have to be incapable of dying. And although this doctrine is taught by
almost all religions, it simply can’t be found in the Bible. In fact, one of
the things that differentiate the Bible from most (if not all) pagan religions
and their sacred writings, is that the Bible alone teaches that a dead person
can be resurrected (brought back to life)… but only if God wills it. So, nothing
inside us is incapable of dying (immortal).
Why, if you go to Genesis the
Third Chapter, you’ll find that it was the Opposer
who first taught that men wouldn’t die, for we read at Genesis 3:5, ‘Then the
snake told the woman, You
won’t stop living and die. But, God knows that on whatever day you
eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be gods who know good and evil.’
We find this first lie directly
contradicted what God had just said at Genesis 2:16, 17, ‘You are free to eat
from all the trees of paradise, but you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of Good and Bad. Because, on whatever day you eat from it, your
life will end and you will die.’
Now, obviously souls can die,
for notice what a soul is. Genesis 2:7 tells us this: ‘Then God formed man from
the dust of the ground, breathed the breath of life against his face, and he
became a living creature.’
Now, the words we translated as
living creature here were psyche in Greek and Nephesh
in Hebrew, and both words are the same ones that are translated as soul
in other Bibles. So, the Bible’s own definition of a soul is something made
from the dust of the ground and has the breath of life… thus, it
is a whole living person or animal, not something that lives inside. In fact,
throughout the Bible, animals are referred to as souls also. So, psyche
really means (as we have translated it) a living creature.
Actually, the best true Bible
definition of the Greek word psyche is what the word implies in modern psychology,
‘the inner person,’ not, ‘the immortal person.’ With this understanding, we can
see how God could refer to ‘My Soul.’ He wasn’t speaking of the individual we
all believe that we know, but of the person He is on the inside.
As history shows, the pagan
Egyptians believed that they had immortal souls, but righteous Hebrews made no
mention of such a belief anywhere in the Hebrew Scriptures. It was only in the
millennium proceeding the time of Jesus that we first start seeing this
doctrine start to creep into Jewish teachings.
Then, did Jesus and his
Apostles teach that we have an immortal soul? No, for those two words (immortal
soul) don’t appear together anywhere in the Bible. In fact, the words immortal
and immortality (gr. athenasia or undying)
can only be found in three places in the Bible, and let’s see how the word is
used in each of these cases:
1 Timothy 6:15, 16 – ‘He will
show himself at his own set time… the blest and only ruler, the King of those
who rule as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords; the only one who has immortality
and who lives in unapproachable light; he who no man has seen or can see.
1 Corinthians 15:53, 54 – ‘Then
that which is decaying will put on cleanliness, and that which is dying will
put on immortality. But, when that which is dying puts on immortality,
the words that were written are fulfilled, Death is swallowed in victory.’
So, in the first case, we can
see that God is immortal, and in the second case, we can see that immortality
is offered as a reward to the righteous… so, it is not a possession
of the wicked… and they have no immortal soul that can be sent to burn in
Hell.
The ‘Spirit’ Problem
We are always amazed at how
quickly people will turn from the teaching of (but not their belief in) an
immortal soul after reading those scriptures, and then say that the thing that
is immortal is the spirit (Hebrew – ruach,
Greek – pneuma, Latin – espiritu,
which can be translated as breath or wind, but means an unseen
force). However, the Bible doesn’t ever speak of an immortal spirit
either.
Scriptures that they like to
quote to prove their point include the following:
Luke
John 19:30, ‘When he received
the vinegar, Jesus said, It’s
finished! Then he hung his head and quit breathing (‘gave beside the
breath’ gr. paradoken to pneuma).
Ecclesiastes 12:7, ‘And the
dust returns to the earth where it was, and the breath (‘spirit’ gr. pneuma) returns to God who gave it.’
Now, in the first two cases
above, the references are to Jesus and his final words and actions as he was
dying, and the third case talks about what happens to normal men when they die.
And the conclusion that many reach is that Jesus himself returned to God that
day (when his ‘spirit’ returned to God). However, the Bible says that he
wasn’t resurrected until the third day, so that can’t be true. And in
the third case (in Ecclesiastes), they conclude it’s saying that we go to God
(to the ‘light’) immediately when we die. However, did you notice that the
other option such people also believe in, going to ‘Hell,’ isn’t even mentioned
there?
So, let’s see exactly which
‘spirit,’ ‘breath,’ or ‘wind’ actually returns to God. What caused humans to
live to begin with? Genesis 2:7 says, ‘Then God formed man from the dust of the
ground, breathed the breath of life (gr. to pnoen
zoes)
against his face, and he became a living creature.’
Yes, the breath (gr. pnoen, a conjugation of pneuma)
of life came from God to begin with, so it returns to God when we die.
Now, we
certainly don’t claim the ‘the breath of life’ that God breathed was just some
form of artificial respiration to cause Adam to start living. Rather, it is
obviously the power that God gave to all of Adam’s cells, which brought each of
them to life. So, something more than breath
or wind is implied here. However, literally millions of cells in our bodies die
each day and the power of their life must return to God who originally gave it
to Adam. This gradual form of death can be proven scientifically, and some
cells continue to live long after clinical death (the death of the brain). So,
the ‘breath’ that returns to God is obviously His record of who and what we
are, which will allow Him to resurrect us (if He chooses) just as we were.
Our Conclusions
As you can see, it appears as
though we are arguing against something that is proven by several words
throughout the Bible. However, recognize that the teaching of a Hell Fire has
thousands of years of background in pagan ideas throughout the religions of
this world. And the fact that people have had to distort the meanings of such
Bible words as Hades (grave), Gehenna (garbage dump),
Lake of Fire (Second Death), and Tartarus (dark place
of fallen gods) to try to prove the existence of a place that a God of Love
would never approve of, shows a deep, dark, inward hatred. Nobody with any
understanding of love for God would ever accuse Him of torture, or worse yet,
eternal torture. Such evil could come only from the minds of men, and from a
desire to frighten others into following corrupt and empty religious teachings.
Yes, many people want to
believe that there is a Hell. After all, shouldn’t there be such a thing for
those like Adolph Hitler, who have committed such terrible crimes against
humanity? On the other hand, it is only because such religious people as Adolph
Hitler believed that God is to blame for such badness, that they have felt
justified in their own acts of horror against humanity.
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rendering "hell" as a translation of hades,
corresponding to Sheol, wrongly rendered "the
grave" and "hell," see HADES. (2) The verb tartaroo,
translated "cast down to hell" in 2 Pet. 2:4, signifies to consign to
Tartarus, which is neither Sheol
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“great” or “small”—all those held captive within Hades (Sheol),
the common grave of mankind, will be released. Those who lost their lives at
sea will also return to life during Christ’s Millennial Reign. None of those
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