Let's Talk About Hell

[Der Alte]

[ . . . ]This is your view of it. I'm saying that when Jesus said Gehenna, the Jews knew just what he was saying, The Valley of Hinnom, the place of death.
Hades as well; the Jews would have understood Hades to be Sheol, the place of the dead. Not Hades as the greeks thought of it, a shadow realm of ghosts.

Wrong again. That is not my view that is the historical view from two Jewish sources, the Jewish Encyclopedia and the Talmud, which I have posted and linked more than once. There is NO, ZERO, NONE evidence that 1st century Jews feared the literal valley of Hinnom or considered it a place of fire and death. And you certainly have not provided any evidence of any kind why Jesus would refer to Gehenna as a place of fire that is not quenched and the worm does not die, see Mark 9.

 

[Studious One]

When Jesus spoke of Geenna, the Jews did not understand Him to be warning them of the Valley of Hinnom. They knew He spoke of a place far worse than Hinnom, for the Jews knew that God was against cremation... God's people were buried... it was the heathen nations that cremated their people. There is not one instance in the Bible where God's people were burned with His approval... not one. Christ's warning against the fires and torments of Geenna were not understood by the Jews to mean the Valley of Hinnom.

 

[Timothew]

When Jesus spoke of Geenna, the Jews did not understand Him to be warning them of the Valley of Hinnom. They knew He spoke of a place far worse than Hinnom, for the Jews knew that God was against cremation... God's people were buried... it was the heathen nations that cremated their people. There is not one instance in the Bible where God's people were burned with His approval... not one. Christ's warning against the fires and torments of Geenna were not understood by the Jews to mean the Valley of Hinnom.

Right, they believed those burned in the valley of hinnom would not receive the resurrection on the last day. Therefore to go to Gehenna meant to be dead forever, not resurrected by God.

 

[ChrisBot]

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