Hell
Ed Siefert
sieferted at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 10 17:31:59 EST 2002
Wow, Waco:
I just read your message and felt compelled to comment on the subject
words. You are correct that Gehenna is the valley of fire south of Old
Jerusalem in which trash and the bodies of the crufified were thrown a
couple of millennia ago. The word itself is Hebrew.
Hades, according to Greek mythology, is the "unseen world," the abode of
the dead in which life continues on several different planes. One of those
planes is Tartarus, the lowest level of Hades where souls are kept in
eternal punishment for their sins in this worldly life: home to some
spiritually despicable people, I guess.
Use of these words is the NT is highly idomatic. A western view of Hades
lead to confusion about Hell itself in early scriptural translations;
perhaps was due to an improper emphasis on Tartarus.
Ed
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