Did Jesus descend into hell?

[LittleLambofJesus]

Hell is NEVER mentioned in the Bible --- Sheol, Ghenna and Hades are but none of them are hell. Our modern concept of hell mostly derives from lurid medieval art and fiction. Dante's "Inferno" is the real source of most of how we think of hell.

YLT is about the only version I can find that renders that greek word as "gehenna"

Matt uses it 7 times, Mark 3, and 1 each in Luke and James[which is the only place outside of the Gospels it is used]. John, Peter,Paul and book of Acts never mention it, at least not the particular word],from what I can see...

Genesis 1:1 (YLT)
Strong's Number G1067 matches the Greek γέεννα (geenna),
which occurs 12 times in 12 verses in the Greek concordance

Matthew 23:15, 33 are the only 2 places that Jesus address an actual people concerning "gehenna":

Mat 23:
15
'Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
33
'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

The other times He mentions the body in association with it's members, eye, foot, hand and tongue[i James]

Mat 5:
29 'But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out....
and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.
30
'And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off.......
Mat 10:28
'And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul,........uk

This parable in Luke 16 actually shows a man in hades being tormented by a flame:

Lazarus and the Rich Man - Here a little, there a little - Commentary
The parable of Lazarus and the rich man has been the foundation for many of the erroneous beliefs about "hell" within traditional Christianity.
Some have viewed it not as a parable, but as a true story Yeshua told to give details about the punishment of sinners in hell..........................

Luke 16:
22 "So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried."
23 "And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off,
and Lazarus in his bosom."
24 "Then he cried and said, '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.' "

Jas 3:6
and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

Strong's Greek: 1067. γέεννα (geenna) -- Gehenna, a valley W. and South of Jer., also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly

Of Hebrew origin (gay' and Hinnom); valley of (the son of) Hinnom; ge-henna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment -- hell.

Gehenna, the name of a valley on the south and east of Jerusalem (yet apparently beginning on the Winer's Grammar, cf. Joshua 15:8; Pressel in Herzog, under the word),..............
The Jews so abhorred the place after these horrible sacrifices had been abolished by king Josiah (2 Kings 23:10), that they cast into it not only all manner of refuse, but even the dead bodies of animals and of unburied criminals who had been executed........

Jer 19:6
'Therefore, behold!, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah --
and this place is not called any more, Tophet, and Valley of the son of Hinnom, but Valley of slaughter.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Did Jesus descend into hell? Why was it not put in scripture? Because it is not found in scripture should we dismiss it? Why did Jesus descend into hell? When did he descend into hell? Was it before or after his resurrection? So many questions, so little time .

Not sure if anyone brought this verses up yet which mentions "chains of gloom/darkness".

2 Peter 2:4
For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus,
did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;

Strong's Greek: 5020. ταρταρόω (tartaroó) -- to cast into hell

"5020 (tartaróō) is a Greek name for the under-world, especially the abode of the damned – hence to cast into hell" (A-S); to send into the subterranean abyss reserved for demons and the dead.

"Chains" is mentioned numerous times in the Bible.

Genesis 1:1 (NKJV)
"chains"occurs 49 times in 47 verses

Luk 8:
29 For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man.
For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles;
and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.
33 Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned.

 

[Bonzobob]

Hell is NEVER mentioned in the Bible --- Sheol, Ghenna and Hades are but none of them are hell. Our modern concept of hell mostly derives from lurid medieval art and fiction. Dante's "Inferno" is the real source of most of how we think of hell.

If you think Hell is not mentioned in the Bible, what translation are you reading, both the NIV and the King James mention Hell.

 

[JackRT]

If you think Hell is not mentioned in the Bible, what translation are you reading, both the NIV and the King James mention Hell.

The translators are using the Anglo-Saxon (Early English) word "hell" as the translation of Sheol, Ghenna and Hades. None of these terms carry the modern understanding of hell and in fact are not synonymous with each other.