Enlarging font size doesn't do anything; I can read. Why do you refuse to address/harmonize all scriptures beginning in the OT. Don't be selective.
From bible program:
AndG2532 inG1722
hellG86 he lift upG1869 hisG848 eyes,G3788 beingG5225 inG1722 torments,G931 and seethG3708 AbrahamG11 afar off,G575 G3113 andG2532 LazarusG2976 inG1722 hisG846 bosom.G2859
What does hellG86 actually mean as defined by the bible. First start in the OT, then move into the NT.
Hell/sheol/hades, all have the same meaning which is the pit or the grave; the place of the dead. This isn't just made through my own consciousness, other people have done the work and we have the luxury of opening free bible programs and looking it up.
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g86/kjv/lxx/0-1/#lexResults
Isaiah 50:5-9, speaking of Christ:
The Lord God has opened My ear;
And I was not rebellious,
Nor did I turn away.
6
I gave My back to those who struck Me,
And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard;
I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
7 “
For the Lord God will help Me (the meaning of Lazarus);
Therefore I will not be disgraced;
Therefore I have set My face like a flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.
8 He is near who justifies Me;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand together.
Who is [a]My adversary?
Let him come near Me.
9
Surely the Lord God will help Me (Lazarus);
Who is he who will condemn Me?
Indeed they will all grow old like a garment;
The moth will eat them up.
Isaiah 38:10,11, 17,18
I said,
“In the prime of my life
I shall go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the remainder of my years.”
11 I said,
“I shall not see
Yah,
The Lord in the land of the living;
I shall observe man no more [c]among the inhabitants of [d]the world.
Indeed it was for my own peace
That I had great bitterness;
But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
1
8 For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
I'm not trying to be rude, but you cannot have a strict literal reading at all times; you need to allow the writer whether that is the prophets, Jesus, or the apostles to use various literary styles of writing, which could be literal, metaphor, hyperbole, Hebrew Parallelism, poetry, allegory, parable etc.
When Jesus says "I am the door"(John 10:9), does that mean he is two pieces of plywood slapped together; of course not.
Was Abel's voice literally crying out from the ground; or is it being used as a metaphor?
Genesis 4:9-10
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?”
He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
10 And He said, “What have you done?
The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
You need to define terms in the OT first before you try and interpret the NT. What is the fire of god; how is it described in the bible:
Jer 4:4
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,
And take away the foreskins of your hearts,
You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Lest My fury come forth like fire,
And
burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings.”
Jer7:31-33
31 And they have built the
high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to b
urn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.
32 “Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room. 33 T
he corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away.
Jeremiah 17:27
27 “But if you will not heed Me to hallow the Sabbath day, such as not carrying a burden when entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and
it shall not be quenched.” ’ ”
Jude 7
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are
set forth as an example, suffering the [a]vengeance of eternal fire.
Question, is Sodom and Gomorrah still burning today? Can you fly over there and see the city still burning, no. So then what does "eternal fire" or "fire that cannot be quenched" actually mean? It means to be consumed, turned to ash, turned to nothingness, and it will not be stopped; it is permanent.
1 Kings 18:38, the fire from God, isn't the same as human concept of fire that goes up; the fire of God comes down and it burns up everything, even the stones. These examples are for our learning to understand what this things mean.
Then the
fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice,
and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”
We cannot just ignore everything described in the OT and selectively choose to apply it when it favors our beliefs and ignore it when it doesn't. I will say it again, if you don't understand the terminology that is defined in the OT or the OT prophesies before coming to the NT, then you will not understand the parable of the Rich man and all the symbolize Jesus uses to his Jewish audience (who were saturated in the OT). I was one of those people who filled my beliefs with assumptions because I didn't have the background knowledge until someone pointed it out to me.
