Hell, Everlasting Punishment.ppt

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"Is hell a hot place? Do sheol and hades refer to some place wherethe wicked suffer after death? It is plain that they do not, for we

have already seen that the dead are not conscious and thereforecannot suffer.So this illustration (Lk. 16: 19-31, dm) does notteach that some dead persons are tormented in a literal fieryhell.So when Jesus said that persons would be thrown intoGehenna for their bad deeds, what did he mean? Not that theywould be tormented forever" (The Truth that Leads to Eternal Life,

pg. 41, 43, 44, a Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society publication,the Jehovah Witnesses).


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The doctrine that hell is not everlasting punishment is not

limited to those distant from churches of Christ. The

following four extant books deny everlasting punishment:

The Fire That Consumes, Edward Fudge.

Gods Judgements and Punishments, Homer Hailey.

After Life, F. LaGard Smith.

Fire In My Bones, Jimmy Allen.


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Jesus was plain regarding the eternality of the punishment of the

wicked. Hear him: "And these shall go away into everlasting

punishment: but the righteous into life eternal" (Matt. 25: 46).

Everlasting" (state of the wicked) and "eternal" (state of the saved)

are both derived from the same Greek word (aionios). Hence, the

everlasting punishment of the wicked will be just as eternal as the

eternal life of the saved. After a similar fashion, just as the saved

will be conscious in heaven (Rev. 21, 22), so will the wicked be

conscious in gehenna. One source of the punishment will be"everlasting fire" which was prepared for the devil and his angels

(Matt. 25: 41). In hell there will be "weeping and gnashing of teeth

(Matt. 25: 30, indicative of a conscious state).


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The Greek word translated "hell" is found twelve times in the Greek

New Testament. Materialists successfully mislead some into believing

hell is simply annihilation or non-existence by artfully confusing hell

(geenna) and hades.

Hades and hell are two different words. Hades is found eleven times in

the Greek New Testament. Hell is from the Greek geenna. Geenna is

found twelve times and is consistently translated "hell" in most

translations. Geenna (hell) denotes a place of eternal punishment.

Jesus associates damnation with geenna (Matt. 23: 33). In fact, Jesusused geenna in such a way as to identify hell as the place of

damnation (Ibid.). Hell (geenna) is the place of eternal punishment,

"fire that never shall be quenched" and "... their worm dieth not" (Mark.

9: 43 ff.).


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Those who deny the plain teaching of the Bible regarding hell and the

fact hell is a place of everlasting conscious punishment make a play on

the word "destroy." Jesus said, "And fear not them which kill the body,

but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to

destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matt. 10: 28). They say "destroy"

means to extinguish or annihilate.

"Destroy" is from the Greek apollumi and is found 92 times in the

Greek New Testament. The world of Noah's day perished with water,

we are told (2 Pet. 3: 6). "Perish" is from apollumi. Did the

antediluvian world cease to exist or was it annihilated? One of thecommon purposes of "destroy" (apollumi) is to suggest the spiritually

lost. Jesus came "to save that which was lost (apollumi, Luke 19:

10). Apollumi suggests the opposite of saved (John. 3: 16).


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"A-1, apollumi, [Verb, 622]

a strengthened form of ollumi, signifies "to destroy utterly;" in Middle

Voice, "to perish." The idea is not extinction but ruin, loss, not of being,

but of well-being. This is clear from its use, as, e.g., of the marring of

wine skins, Luke 5:37; of lost sheep, i.e., lost to the shepherd,

metaphorical of spiritual destitution, Luke 15:4,6, etc.; the lost son, Luke

15:24; of the perishing of food, John 6:27; of gold, 1 Pet. 1:7. So of

persons, Matt. 2:13, "destroy;" Matt. 8:25, "perish;" Matt. 22:7; 27:20; of

the loss of well-being in the case of the unsaved hereafter, Matt. 10:28;

Luke 13:3,5; John 3:16 (ver. 15 in some mss.); 10:28; 17:12; Rom. 2:12;1 Cor. 15:18; 2 Cor. 2:15, "are perishing;" 2 Cor. 4:3; 2 Thess. 2:10; Jas.

4:12; 2 Pet. 3:9. Cp. B, II, No. 1. See DIE, LOSE, MARRED, PERISH"

(W. E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words).


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The Epistles teach something terrible awaiting wicked:

destruction will come (1 Thes. 5: 3).

he is to be accursed (Gal. 1: 9).

God will destroy him (1 Cor. 3: 17).the wrath of Godagainst all unrighteousness of man (Rom. 1:

18).

whose end is destruction (Phili. 3: 19).

how much severer punishment (Heb. 10: 29).

miseries which are coming upon you (Jas. 5: 1-6).for whom the black of darkness has been reserved (2 Pet. 2: 17).

Even as Sodom and Gomorrahsuffering the vengeance of eternal

fire (Jude 7, cp. Matt. 25: 41).


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Do the scriptures, though, present hell as a place of endless andconscious punishment to be suffered by the wicked after the JudgementDay? Jesus used gehenna (or geenna) to describe it as a place of "firethat never shall be quenched" (Mark. 9: 43, Jesus used the illustrationof the literal Valley of Hinnom or Geenna to teach the spiritual truth ofthe spiritual geenna. He then said, where their worm dieth not, andthe fire is not quenched" (vs.46). It is said of the lost: "he shall be

tormented with fire and brimstoneand the smoke of their tormentascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night"(Rev. 14: 10, 11).


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Son remember

Vs. 25Luke 16: 19-31, the intermediate

place:

See especially verses: vs. 22-28


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"And to you who are troubled rest withus, when the Lord Jesus shall berevealed from heaven with his mighty

angels, in flaming fire taking vengeanceon them that know not God, and thatobey not the gospel of our Lord JesusChrist: who shall be punished witheverlasting destruction from thepresence of the Lord, and from the

glory of his power" (2 Thes. 1: 7-9,see also John 15: 6, Matt. 13: 41, 42,Rev. 14: 11, Matt. 25: 46).

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