I am so amazed that no-one has responded to this post. It is to clear in the Word that hell it a literal place of "fire & brimstone", "eternal torment", "gnashing of teeth", "wailing and weeping", etc, etc.
Sheol: Deu 32:22 For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with its increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Gehenna: Mat 5:22 ...... but whoever shall say, Fool! shall be liable to be thrown into the fire of hell.
Gehenna: Mat 18:9 And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.
Gehenna: Mar 9:43 And if your hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched.
Gehenna: Mat 13:42 and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Luk 16:22 And it happened that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich one also died and was buried.
Hades: Luk 16:23 And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luk 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.
Luk 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.
Luk 16:26 And besides all this, there is a great chasm fixed between you and us; so that they desiring to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they pass over to us from there.
Luk 16:27 And he said, I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house,
Luk 16:28 for I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Luk 16:29 Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them. Luk 16:30 And he said, No, father Abraham, but if one should go to them from the dead, they would repent.
Dear J,
I have put the meanings of hell in front of the verses you gave in bold.
Here are the meanings of the word hell in your Bible..
1. Sheol
The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave.
For thou wilt not leave my soul to sheol. --Ps. xvi.
10. (Rev.
Ver.)
(Heb., "the all-demanding world" = Gr. Hades, "the unknown
region"),
the invisible world of departed souls.
2. Hades
n.1. Greek Mythology a. The god of the netherworld and dispenser of earthly riches.
b. This netherworld kingdom,
the abode of the shades of the dead.
2. also
hades Hell.
Hades also means: Invisible. The invisible realm of the dead.
3. Gehenna
1067 geenna geenna gheh'-en-nah
of Hebrew origin Mnh-ayq, 01516 and 02011; TDNT-1:657,113; n f
AV-hell 9, hell fire + 3588 + 4442 3; 12
1) Hell is the place of the
future punishment called "Gehenna" or "Gehenna of fire". This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned;
a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction.
Gehenna is the only description that includes fire, and burning. The Lake of Fire does not occur until after the final judgement, the great white throne judgement.
(Rev 20:14 NASB) Then
death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
The parable of Lazarus in Hades is just that, a parable, and not meant to be taken literally. Jesus did not mean for this to be a teaching on Hades, or hell, He was showing the rulers of Israel what the future of Israel was to be.
Matt 13:13
"Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; 15 for the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.'" (
NKJV)
