Appendix D THE POST-MORTEM TIMELINE Considering the “unhappily” rendered sheol and hades and the co-opting of the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) to serve as hell, as well as the parable-mistaken-for-real-life story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, we must conclude that hell has no scriptural basis on which to exist and therefore has no claimContinue reading “45 Billion Bodies are Somewhere”
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Summing it all Up
Appendix C MAGICIAN’S SMOKE OR PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT Our examination of hell in the Bible revealed plenty of evidence that the existence of such a place is not supported by the scriptures. The argument is so convincing, as a matter of fact, that its going to be difficult to understand how it is that anyone couldContinue reading “Summing it all Up”
Tartarus
Appendix B METAPHOR OR ANGEL THUG LOCKDOWN There is one last Greek word, a noun, rendered “hell” in the New Testament of which we have yet to speak. You will recall that there are three Greek words that were rendered as such: Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus. I decided to include this discussion in an appendix,Continue reading “Tartarus”
Why it Matters
ACQUIRING AN INFORMED VIEW First let me say that truth always matters. In the two thousand years of the church age, we have seen biblical truth branded as heresy and we have seen grave error advanced as the truth and the swing of that pendulum, in either direction, has had its dire consequences. The recognitionContinue reading “Why it Matters”
May We Steal Your Hell?
THE ROAD TO A PLAGERIZED PERDITION Once again, the post-apostolic church was confronted with intellectual challenges to the young Christian faith. These challenges came in two forms: heresies and the intellectual reaction of paganism. The body of work written by the early church fathers and used to meet the intellectual challenge of the Hellenistic pagansContinue reading “May We Steal Your Hell?”
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”
Hell on Earth
THE ONE PLACE IN THE WORLD WORTHY OF THAT NAME Thinking of what might qualify as being hell on earth, one might think of the Colosseum at Rome, the most blood drenched piece of ground in the world. Maybe being incarcerated in a Russian Gulag comes to mind. Some Vietnam veterans might remember a prisonerContinue reading “Hell on Earth”
Old School
WHO GOES TO HELL? We look, so often, to the Old Testament for the beginnings of a doctrine, a principle or a truth taught in the New Testament and in doing so we can gain depth, clarity and context. The fact that there is but one God is entrenched so deeply in the Old Testament,Continue reading “Old School”
Undressing Orthodoxy 