Again, though, I don't see any need for all the study you did on this. Hell fire is pretty simple. The words of Jesus are easy to understand but hard to swallow. We tend to make thing complicated when it is unnecessary.
By the way, the little denomination, Advent Christian Church, follows your line of reasoning.
Dear Brother Glenn,
You will see that by using Hades, Scripture proves there is only unconsciousness in SHEOL-HADES
When DL Moody died the congregation was told that he was in heaven, but this is not possible according to Scripture. He was not in heaven praising God as they claimed. We would all like to believe this but what does Scripture teach?
What does the Bible say of the believers who have died? King David wrote: “The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence (Ps. 115:17).
David tells us that they do not praise the Lord, because they go down to a place of silence. The Septuagint rendering of verses 17 and 18 is very significant: The dead shall not praise thee, 0 Lord, nor any that go down to hades. But we, the living, will bless the Lord, from henceforth and to the age.”
In the original Hebrew of the Old Scriptures the dead were said to go to Sheol. The comparable Greek word in the New Scriptures is Hades. When the Judean translators of the Septuagint Bible (280 B.C.) came to the word sheol, they always rendered it with the Greek hades. When the writers of the New Scriptures quoted a passage from the Hebrew, they rendered sheol as hades. An example is in Psalm 16:10, “For thou wilt not leave my soul in sheol.” “Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hades” (Acts 2:27).
The Hebrew word "sheol" occurs 65 times in the original texts. The translators of the King James Version rendered it "hell" 31 times, "grave" 31 times, and "pit" 3 times (see Strong's or Young's Concordances for verification). However, none of these 65 occurrences of "sheol" depict a place where the dead suffer conscious torment. I am sure you will say quote other Scriptures and I believe I can answer you on these points. Your brother in Christ, James Templeton
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Ok, I was not trying to be smart. What is the difference between hades and hell? What is the difference in what you believe and what Jesus said about hell fire?
It might be that our Bible Translation needs to be examined in the light of the original Greek because the hell that people say they believe in is very different from the Greek Hades, James Templeton
