Does Hell exist?

[Neogaia777]

I posted this is this thread (below) and thought it might be useful here, etc...?

Where did Jesus go after he died on cross?

Jesus, at that time, went to "spirits" that were "in prison", etc, and that is all it says, etc, but they more than likely were conscious, and that means it/they could have been Hades, or Abraham's Bosom, or both, etc, again, we are limited by what the scriptures say, and by what they actually reveal to us, etc, and our own individual definitions of terms also, etc, terms like "Hades", "Sheol", and "Gehenna", etc, and right now, I'm just going to tell you how I have defined them, or what I have come to know or think about them by what I was taught or learned, etc... Either way, when I am discussing these terms, I do think they are all each three, very very unique and very real places each individually that are 100% absolutely real and true, as I will get into right now, or in just a minute, etc...

And I'm going to start with the one that I am maybe most certain of first, and that is "Gehenna", etc, I don't know of very many people who will not say that this has to be the Lake of Fire, etc, but there still could maybe be some few who might disagree with me, etc, and it is the only true everlasting place where people go to that is a "very bad, bad, bad place", where people are in "torment" for an "eternity", etc, and people only go there at the very very end of this entire creation, who have either been "asleep" in "Sheol", or that were in torment in "Hades" before that, etc, and the next one is "Hades" and that is "a hell" where people are in fully conscious torment, right now, but is not the Lake of Fire (yet) that could maybe only be temporary maybe for some maybe, etc, and then I have also been taught that "Sheol" is the place of the resting, and as of yet and right now, still asleep, "dead", etc...

But also that all from each of these places will be resurrected or brought back at the very end of this entire creation, and some might go to Heaven, or at least those in Abraham's Bosom most certainly will, whereas others, might go or get into Heaven, but that some will be cast into the Lake of Fire to exist in only torment eternally after that, and that specific Judgement is final, and lasts for all eternity after that, etc...

And other than maybe just maybe some of my definition of terms maybe, etc, this is what I think the Bible actually teaches and says, and I have tried my best to not go beyond it, etc...

But and/or anyway...

God Bless!

 

[eleos1954]

If that is the case, what was Jesus saying about himself?

Matthew 12:40 NIV
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Jesus' experience is foreshadowed by Jonah's experience.

Mainly is addressing resurrection ... the Pharisees did not believe Jesus was the Messiah nor did they believe in resurrection .... therefore they were asking for a sign (miracle) ... they had already seen several miracles (signs) that Jesus had done .... but did not believe them ... so Jesus through His resurrection ... would be the final sign to them (sign of Jonah) that He is who He says He is.

I think it best to revisit the two stories and compare them (as a whole) .... there are many similarities and also are many contrasts between the two.