What does the Bible say about hell?

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• What does the Bible say about hell?
• Part 1 The word in the Bible
• Searchers Class - 2005

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• Old Testament Hebrew
• Sheol 65 times
• 31 Hell
• 30 Grave
• 3 Pit
• 1 Graves
• Sheol is the Hebrew equivalent to Hades in Greek
• There is no OT word for eternal punishment

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• New Testament Greek
• Hades 12 times
• KJV hell
• Most other versions hades
• Unseen, hidden, the unseen world of departed
  spirits

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• New Testament Greek
• Tartarus 1 time
• Hell 1
• 2 Peter 24 - 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

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• New Testament Greek
• Basanos 3 times
• Torments 2
• Torment - 1

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• New Testament Greek
• Gehenna - 12 times
• Translated hell in most versions
• NOTE There are many passages that discuss the
  subject of hell. But the word itself only occurs
  12 times in the entire Bible.

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• Peoples New Testament with Notes, B. W. Johnson
  - The Greek is "the Gehenna of fire." The term
  Gehenna arose from the valley of Hinnom, south of
  Jerusalem, where the Canaanites burned human
  sacrifices to Moloch. After the return of the
  Jews from the Captivity they made it a place of
  defilement, where the refuse of the city was
  thrown and burned. The name was applied to the
  place of future punishment by the Jews. The word
  is often used in the New Testament (Mat_2333
  Mat_529 Mat_1028 Mat_189 Mar_943), and
  always denotes a place of future punishment.

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• What does the Bible say about hell?
• Part 2 Jesus was a hell fire preacher
• Searchers Class - 2005

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• As noted in part 1 the word meaning the place
  of eternal punishment occurs only 12 times in the
  Bible, all in the New Testament.
• Here are some interesting facts
• 11 of the 12 were spoken by Jesus
• Only time not spoken by Jesus is in James 36 -
  And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.
  The tongue is so set among our members that it
  defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the
  course of nature and it is set on fire by hell.

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• Of the 11 spoken by Jesus 10 times were spoken
  in a public setting
• The only private time He used the word was to the
  apostles in Matthew 1028 - And do not fear those
  who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But
  rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul
  and body in hell.

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• Here are the 10 public statements where Jesus
  used the word Hell
• Matthew 522 - But I say to you that whoever is
  angry with his brother without a cause shall be
  in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to
  his brother, Raca! shall be in danger of the
  council. But whoever says, You fool! shall be
  in danger of hell fire.

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• Matthew 529 - If your right eye causes you to
  sin, pluck it out and cast it from you for it is
  more profitable for you that one of your members
  perish, than for your whole body to be cast into
  hell.
• Matthew 530 - And if your right hand causes you
  to sin, cut it off and cast it from you for it
  is more profitable for you that one of your
  members perish, than for your whole body to be
  cast into hell.

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• Matthew 189 - And if your eye causes you to sin,
  pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better
  for you to enter into life with one eye, rather
  than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.
• Matthew 2315 - Woe to you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and
  sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you
  make him twice as much a son of hell as
  yourselves.

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• Matthew 2333 - Serpents, brood of vipers! How
  can you escape the condemnation of hell?
• Mark 943 - If your hand causes you to sin, cut
  it off. It is better for you to enter into life
  maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to
  hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched

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• Mark 945 - And if your foot causes you to sin,
  cut it off. It is better for you to enter life
  lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast
  into hell, into the fire that shall never be
  quenched
• Mark 947 - And if your eye causes you to sin,
  pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the
  kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having
  two eyes, to be cast into hell fire

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• Luke 125 - But I will show you whom you should
  fear Fear Him who, after He has killed, has
  power to cast into hell yes, I say to you, fear
  Him!
• You have seen every verse in the Bible where the
  word gehenna, meaning eternal punishment
  occurs.
• But there is much more to learn.