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Among the curse words which are so abundant especially in this day and age one which has “enjoyed” perhaps the most popularity and which apparently lends itself to such a multitude of occasions and circumstances is the word “Hell”. And, unless you are virtually cloistered in your home and never cont
Rev. Langerak is pastor of Southeast Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As with heaven, hell is represented by two outstanding pictures. They are the grave ( or sheol) and a garbage dump called Gehenna or valley of Hinnom. Some attempt to escape the existence of hell by noting th
Is it speaking about the grave? Or is it talking about hell? But when these words Sheol and Hades are referring to hell, they especially refer to hell as a grave. That's the picture of hell, as a grave. Hell is a deep abyss. It is a pit where there is no light, there are no windows, but there i
Hell is described as a bottomless pit, as everlasting fire, as outer darkness, as a lake burning with fire and brimstone, as the second death, as the punishment of everlasting destruction from the presence of God, as the place where the worm dies not, a place of eternal, continual torment. The d
And sometimes when you come across these words in scripture, both in the Old Testament and New Testament, you have to determine whether the word is referring to the grave and physical death, or whether it's referring to the place we call hell. But when those words, Sheol and Hades, are referrin
When the objection comes that God is only love and he doesn't punish sin at all, he doesn't care about it, it sounds nice at first, but it just doesn't match reality. It's unscriptural, of course, but it doesn't match reality either. You almost have to be delusional to believe something like th
The ordinary believer goes to a perfect earth, and those who have died in unbelief will be given a second chance by Jehovah to live on this perfect earth. And those who don't avail themselves of that second chance will simply be annihilated. Hell is just for a short time. Then there is the radio
The word “hel” has nothing to do with the English word “hell” but with a word that comes from the local dialect, under the influence of the German language. It means “this is the gate to the light” The gate is part of the defense wall of the Dutch city of Maastricht, built in 1229, made of big brick
And then the description of hell in verse 24, When he says, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. Here in Luke 16, Jesus uses one of the two New Testament words for hell. word that J
There's also eternal punishment of God for sin. And the two are not unrelated. It's like the the bloom on a plant They're connected, the temporal judgments of God finally come to their full flowering and fruition in this eternal punishment of God. Just like on the other hand, God's grace is tem