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For example quick examples,

Matthew 5:30, the word translated hell there is Gehenna

Acts 2:31, the word translated hell there is hades

Just two examples, there are more

Have to stop for tonight. Take care
Thanks Mac, have a good one.
 

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Sheol is the Hebrew word that means the same as greek Gehenna. Same thing, just different languages, like cat and gato

Gehenna and the lake of fire are synonomous

Hades is like jail. Unsaved go there to await trial. Gehenna like the pen. They go there after judgement

Abyss only has to do with satan.

Oh, there’s also Tartarus. That’s like a prison for demons
I never heard of tartarus.
 
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With all these different names hell, Hades, sheol, Gehenna, abyss, lake of fire... I am not sure how to sort it all out...o_O:unsure:
Cherie, I’m sorry. I did a typo in my reply sheol is the Hebrew word for the greek word HADES. I typed too hastily.

Sheol is same as Hades

Gehenna same as lake of fire

Let me know you got this please. Don’t want to give you inaccurate info by accident
 
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I never heard of tartarus.
I had to google it.

In Greek mythology, Tartarus (/ˈtɑːrtərəs/; Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος, Tartaros) is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans.
 
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I had to google it.

In Greek mythology, Tartarus (/ˈtɑːrtərəs/; Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος, Tartaros) is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans.
Peter uses it in 2 Peter 2:4. Apostles used words that would be familar to their readers, but redefined them. Hades is also in Greek myth
 

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Here's what I know about hell VCO.
Not many people actually read what I post so I'm going to brief and to the point.

Psa_63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
The wicked go to the heart of the earth.

Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
The rich man in hell could see Abraham was holding Lazarus near his chest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 🡿

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Mat_12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Jesus went to the heart of the earth.

Eph_4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Jesus went to the heart of the earth to minister to the prisoners that were disobedient before the flood.

Conclusion:
  • Hell is still in operation, wicked people are going there today.
  • Lazarus was leaning on Abraham's chest and that's why "scholars" Abraham's bosom is a place. Abraham's bosom as a place does not exist.
  • Abraham and Lazarus was in eye shot and ear shot of the rich man in hell. Abraham and Lazarus were in hell but not in torment or punishment. A chasm separated the two groups.
  • Jesus went to hell and ministered to the souls that sinned before the flood.
  • Those who accepted the gospel were release from hell.
  • Hell is tossed in the lake a fire after all of the wicked have died at the end of time.

See, it supports my reasoning THE LORD DOES NOT CHANGE. BELIEVER's human spirit always GOES TO HEAVEN, O.T. and N.T.; while the Unrighteous human spirit always goes to Hades. Physical DEATH Body goes to the grave. IF HE DESCENDED SPIRITUALLY IT WAS ONLY TO PROCLAIM THE VICTORY OVER THE DEMONS IN THE PIT, THAT TRIED TO POLLUTE THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE SO THAT MESSIAH COULD NOT COME FROM THE HUMAN RACE.

Now HOW can a person in Hades, see all the way to HEAVEN? You are forgetting it is not with these PHYSICAL EYES. Who knows how far you can see with spiritual EYES? Apparently as Far as GOD Wants you to SEE and HEAR What HE wants you to HEAR. He said he saw seeth Abraham afar off and HE went on to say there is a GREAT GULF FIXED between Abraham and the Rich Man in HADES.

Luke 16:26 (NKJV)
26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.'

I inserted Men walking in each other's Bosoms. I have heard that misunderstood long enough, they are "Bosom Buddies", is all it means.
 
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I had to google it.

In Greek mythology, Tartarus (/ˈtɑːrtərəs/; Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος, Tartaros) is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans.
Google Tartarus in the Bible. The apostles used terms their readers would understand, but redefined them. Like Tartarus AND Hades
 
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Cherie, I’m sorry. I did a typo in my reply sheol is the Hebrew word for the greek word HADES. I typed too hastily.

Sheol is same as Hades

Gehenna same as lake of fire

Let me know you got this please. Don’t want to give you inaccurate info by accident
@CherieR
 
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See, it supports my reasoning THE LORD DOES NOT CHANGE. BELIEVER's human spirit always GOES TO HEAVEN, O.T. and N.T.; while the Unrighteous human spirit always goes to Hades. Physical DEATH Body goes to the grave. IF HE DESCENDED SPIRITUALLY IT WAS ONLY TO PROCLAIM THE VICTORY OVER THE DEMONS IN THE PIT, THAT TRIED TO POLLUTE THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE SO THAT MESSIAH COULD NOT COME FROM THE HUMAN RACE.

Now HOW can a person in Hades, see all the way to HEAVEN? You are forgetting it is not with these PHYSICAL EYES. Who knows how far you can see with spiritual EYES? Apparently as Far as GOD Wants you to SEE and HEAR What HE wants you to HEAR. He said he saw seeth Abraham afar off and HE went on to say there is a GREAT GULF FIXED between Abraham and the Rich Man in HADES.

Luke 16:26 (NKJV)
26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.'

I inserted Men walking in each other's Bosoms. I have heard that misunderstood long enough, they are "Bosom Buddies", is all it means.
1Pe 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Jesus went to hell/hades and PREACHED to the SPIRITS in hell. These were those who died during the time of Noah. I would assume that they were with Abraham and Lazarus since they weren't condemned for this sins until Christ came and preached the gospel to them and they made their decisions.

I agree there was a great gulf between them.
 

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Yes, I don’t agree with you, but notice I have not insulted you. Some folks like to insult those they disagree with, name calling and such. Which is why I attacked back. But don’t do that, because they’ll gang up on you

One guy starts insulting you, and when you stand up for yourself, several jump on you like a pack
I AINT NEVER SCARED. After being in a DARK ROOM with nothing but a MATRESS for TWO WEEKS a few people insulting me on the internet is a JOKE. No jackin here not at all, even me i'll never back. Always keep battling away!

I officialy give you and everyone else permission to insult me if i say something DUMB.
 
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Yes, I don’t agree with you, but notice I have not insulted you. Some folks like to insult those they disagree with, name calling and such. Which is why I attacked back. But don’t do that, because they’ll gang up on you

One guy starts insulting you, and when you stand up for yourself, several jump on you like a pack
Yes, I don’t agree with you, but notice I have not insulted you. Some folks like to insult those they disagree with, name calling and such. Which is why I attacked back. But don’t do that, because they’ll gang up on you

One guy starts insulting you, and when you stand up for yourself, several jump on you like a pack
Sorry, I replied to the wrong person. I do agree with Hes, I thought I was replying th KJV1611, who whole I disagree strongly with him, no excuse for people using insulting language with him.
 
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Rom 8: 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amazing truth

When you do something, and your flesh, your conscious, other people, or satan himself tells you there is no way you can be saved, because saved people are not that stupid to make that mistake

This passage should give you hope.

When your life is in such a dire straights, through tribulation suffering, Loss, despair hopelessness seems to be all around you, and those same voices speak and tell you God woul dnot allow that to happen to his children.

This passage should give you hope

ALL THINGS work together for good, for those who LOVE GOD.

David committed two horrific sins, And suffered dearly because of those sins, Yet he was called a man after gods own heart

Abraham had many lapses of faith, and disobedience, even out of fear calling his wife his sister, Laughing at God, commiting adultry, yet he was a man of great faith and called a friend of God

There are no sins greater than these Yet God forgave, And God KNEW each of these men and other great men of God would make those mistakes before he even made them his children.

Paul. Who can claim to suffer more, From power and wealth to nothing, having to work to earn his meal, Sever suffering which would cause most men to give up. yet through it all. God was faithful. His grace is enough God said, And paul, in his great faith, such as the two men above, Considered these things as light afflictions compared to the glory he awaits.

When legalism wants to tear you down, Let God and his word strengthen you and build you up. God loves you in all cases. he proved that when he sent his son to die for you..Knowing what a knucklehead you would be!!


 
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I AINT NEVER SCARED. After being in a DARK ROOM with nothing but a MATRESS for TWO WEEKS a few people insulting me on the internet is a JOKE. No jackin here not at all, even me i'll never back. Always keep

I officialy give you and everyone else permission to insult me if i say something DUMB.
Not directed at you, Hev, but


...Or we can learn to disagree without insulting each other I have been accused of having a ‘tude, but mainly I have responded harshly when I felt misrepresented, not because I disagreed with someone’s position

Sarcastically calling someone “genius” does not bring glory to God

You are not the culprit, so I am not referring to you
 

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I do not believe the FABLE of two compartments of Hades. It is a place of torment for disembodied spirit of the unrighteous after they die. I offer as EVIDENCE:

Malachi 3:6 (ESV)
6 For I the LORD do not change;
therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

2 Corinthians 5:8 (NKJV)
8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be
absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.


PERIOD! Same for both the O.T. Saints and the N.T. Saints.
Umm, are you not going to quote Strong or Lexicons about hades? Yap, I fail to understand your evidence. Expound more, please. Thanks VCO
 
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Umm, are you not going to quote Strong or Lexicons about hades? Yap, I fail to understand your evidence. Expound more, please. Thanks VCO
Respectfully, because I have a lot of respect for you, 2 Cor. was written after the ascension. The resurrection and ascension changed a lot of things. Didn’t change God, but greatly changed circumstances v