"Hell"

Question #1 > Doesn't the word translated "hell" mean the grave?

Question #2 > Doesn't all there is of man go to the grave at death - there's nothing more?

Question #3 > At death does anything fly away?

Question #4 > When one dies, doesn't he just become unconscious?

Question #5 > Is there torment in hell?

Question #6 > Is there eternity in hell?

Question #7 > Is there fire in hell?

Question #8 > Isn't death the worst possible punishment for the wicked?

Question #9 > Is everlasting punishment simply annihilation?

Question #10 > Has Sodom already suffered the "vengeance of eternal fire" by being completely burned up?

Question #11 > After people have been punished a while in hell, will they be able to go to heaven?

Question #12 > What does the Bible tell us about hell?

If you have another question about "hell", please let us know and we will try and answer your question with the Bible answer.-GW

To the Top Question: Doesn't the word translated "hell" mean "the grave"?

Luke 16
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Psalm 55:15
15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Do you bury live people or dead people? The lexicographer Thayer calls "Sheol" (translated "hell" here) "the common receptacle of disembodied spirits."

To the Top Question #2: #2 > Doesn't all there is of man go to the grave at death - there's nothing more?

Ecclesiastes 12:7
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

To the Top Question #3 > At death does anything fly away?

Psalms 90:10
10 The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

To the Top Question #4 > When one dies, doesn't he just become unconscious?

Luke 16:24
24 "Then he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.'

Isaiah 14:9,10
9 "Hell from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, All the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations. 10 They all shall speak and say to you: 'Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?

To the Top Question #5 > Is there torment in hell?

Luke 16:23
23 "And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

To the Top Question #6 > Is there eternity in hell?

Revelations 20:10
10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. (NKJV)

To the Top Question #7 > Is there fire in hell?

Luke 16:24
"I am tormented in this flame."

To the Top Question #8 > Isn't the worst possible punishment for the wicked "death"?

Hebrews 10:29
29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

To the Top Question #9 > Is everlasting punishment simply annihilation?

2 Peter 3:6
6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
Was the Earth "annihilated"?

To the Top Question #10 > Has Sodom already suffered the "vengeance of eternal fire" by being completely burned up? Jude 7 says "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 vengeance of eternal fire."
Jude 14, 15
14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 "to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."(NKJV)
NOTE: Sodom and Gomorrha STILL face judgment in addition to the ancient fire and brimstone which they have already suffered.
2 Peter 2:4-9
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) -- 9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

To the Top Question #11 > After people have been punished a while in hell, can they still to go on to heaven?

Luke 16:26:
"Neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence."

To the Top Question #12 > What does the Bible tell us about hell?
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Here are some seven views into hell from the Bible:
(1) The FACT of it is as sure as the Word of God.
(2) The DESIGN of it is for the Devil and his angels.
(3) The DELIVERANCE from it is as conditional as terms of the gospel.
(4) The TORMENT of it is as horrible as a burning fire.
(5) The DURATION of it is as long as eternity itself.
(6) The DANGER of it is as far-flung as sin.
(7) The FINALITY of it is as immutable as the judgment bar's decision.

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