RE: HELL or not HELL?
November 8, 2018 at 8:47 am
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2018 at 8:53 am by Angrboda.)
(November 8, 2018 at 6:18 am)OakTree500 Wrote:Quote:And the new testament says, "It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’" (Mark 9:47-48, NASB)
Apparently this one is a mis-translation as per my post:
Which relate to Gehenna, the physical place. Isaiah I can't comment on as it's not in that list, but if you check the web page it may be visible. But otherwise we have no way of knowing if the suppose supernatural version of hell exists.
- Mark 9:43 – GehennaMark 9:45 – GehennaMark 9:47 – Gehenna
There is no physical place where the worm does not die. I'm not debating that these all don't in some way trace back to a physical place, but that the physical place became a metaphor for something else. Showing that these words all trace back to a word which at one time referred to a physical place doesn't show that these were references to a physical place, as that would essentially deny the possibility that Gehenna was a symbol for something else, but these other references make clear that the hell or Gehenna being referred to in these passage is not the literal, physical Gehenna that existed in ancient Palestine.