Appendix E BUT WHAT ABOUT…? I can hear them now – some of the Bible scholars I know challenging my argument with a few scriptures that do not seem to fit the premise. At first glance these passages may appear to pose a problem, so I am just going to lay them out on theContinue reading “Questions and Answers”
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The Rich Man and Lazarus
PURPLE, FINE LINEN AND FIVE BROTHERS There seems to be a triad of translation/interpretation mishaps regarding the subject of hell in the Bible. First is the “unhappy” rendering (W.E. Vine) of sheol and hades as “hell” in the Old and New Testaments, respectively. Then there is the interpretation of Gehenna (the Valley of Hinnom) asContinue reading “The Rich Man and Lazarus”
Gehenna
THE SONS OF A GARBAGE DUMP Twelve times, the Greek word Gehenna appears in the New Testament manuscript. Twelve times it is rendered either “hell” or “hell fire”, at times, making an interpretive reading problematic. We addressed six of them in the last chapter and found that the context of the passages in question couldContinue reading “Gehenna”
Undressing Orthodoxy 