Where do they go?

[Robban]

Literally, it is a small area in which people can not get out.
I think that is bad enough.

Goodness me,
best to keep on an even keel then?

Have heard our path in life is as the edge of a knife,
to the left is an abyss,
to the right is an abyss.

 

[Robban]

My guess is that the Grandfather did not know either.

So in the situation that arose from post #1,

question is, who was the teacher,
the child or the Grandfather?

 

[CherubRam]

Got into this thought by a post in another thread,
did not want to derail it so therefore this thresd.

"Where do they go?"

Was a burning question for me when I was younger.

When those in my nearness were not there anymore,

got different answers even lay in the grass for hours looking up at the sky,
but did not see anything.
So, was not satisfied.

Then it came to me that years ago on a trip to London I bought a secondhand book (1877)
called, "The Rev
C.H.Spurgeon his life and work to his forty third birthday" (long title)

Written by George J. Stevenson, M.A.,
In his preface he writes "opinions only have been excluded;
facts are both important and interesting."

To the point, I will quote from the book a piece which may be of interest.

"When I was very small boy" writes Charles H, Spurgeon,

"I was staying at my grandfather,s , where I had aforetime spent my earliest days,
and as the manner was I read the Scriptures at family prayer.

Once upon a time when reading the passage in the Book of Revelation which mentions the bottomless pit, I paused and said,
Grandpa, what can this mean?

The answer was kind but unsatisfactory----Pooh, pooh, child, go on.

The child intended however to have an explanation, and therefore selected the same chapter morning after morning..................

Well it would be too long to write out the whole chapter.

But it did comfort me somewhat, knowing that not just I had those thoughts.

bottomless pit would be parabolic for "deep unknown."

Revelation 9:1
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
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Revelation 9:2
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
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Revelation 9:11
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
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Revelation 11:7
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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Revelation 17:8
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
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Revelation 20:1
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
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Revelation 20:3
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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[Robban]

bottomless pit would be parabolic for "deep unknown."

Revelation 9:1
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Revelation 9:2
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Revelation 9:11
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
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Revelation 11:7
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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Revelation 17:8
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
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Revelation 20:1
And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
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Revelation 20:3
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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Who needs Hollywood when there are texts like these?

 

[CherubRam]

Who needs Hollywood when there are texts like these?

Do you believe in the Pagan Hell?

 

[CherubRam]

Hell. Germanic origin. Pagan Myth. The word was used to transfer the Pagan concept to Christian theology. For the Judaic-Christian origin of the concept, see Gehenna.



Tar-ta-rus (tartarus) [[ Gr Tartaros ]] Gr. Pagan Myth. An infernal abyss below Hades, where Zeus hurls the rebel Titans, later a place of punishment for the demons and devils. (Mentioned only once in the Bible)


Ha-des (hadez) [[Gr Haides ]] Gr. Pagan Myth. The home of the dead, beneath the earth. b The god of the underworld. 2. Bible: The state or resting place of the dead: The name is used in some modern translations of the New Testament.


She-ol (sheol) [[Heb shaal ]] Hebrew word for grave. A place in the depths of the earth conceived of as place for the dead. Note: In the KJV about half of scriptures are translated as hell, the other half as grave.


Gehenna: Mentioned twelve or thirteen times in the bible. Gehenna: Referring to the Valley of Hinnom, or Gehenna, which is the city dump outside the walls of Jerusalem used for dumping broken pottery.


Topheth is believed to be a location in Jerusalem, in the Valley of Hinnom, where the Canaanites sacrificed children to the god Moloch by burning them alive.

 

[Robban]

Do you believe in the Pagan Hell?

Never heard of it.