Is Our Understanding

of Hell A Human

Tradition?

Is Our Understanding

of Hell A Human

Tradition?

Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?

We Should Not Be Afraid To Have Our Beliefs

Challenged!

Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?

Edward Fudge

F. LaGard Smith

Homer Hailey

Stephen Clark Goad

Harry Buis

Others....

Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?

• All we know of the “unseen” is what has been revealed by God through His Word!

• We need to keep a clear view of the “unseen” realm!

Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?

The Use Of Hell In The New Testament

Hades - (lit. an unseen place); (1) the place of the dead underworld (Acts 2:27);

(2) usually in the NT as the temporary underworld prison where the souls of the godly

and ungodly await the judgment (Lk. 16:23)

Gehenna - lit. the Valley of the Sons of Hinnom, ….figuratively in the Gospels

for hell, a fiery place of eternal punishment for the ungodly dead. (Mt. 5:22).

Tartarus - the name of a subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by

the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment

for their evil deeds; it answers to the Gehenna of the Jews. (2 Pet. 2:4)

Sheol - Old Testament - (Psa. 16:10) - 1) Sheol, underworld, grave, hell,

pit 1a) the underworld 1b) Sheol - the OT designation for the abode of the dead.

Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?

There Is A Conscious Existence After Death

A Failure To See Context Of Some Verses. Eccl. 9:10-11

Do We Go Out Of Existence At Death Or In Judgment When

We Are Cast Into Hell? Mt. 18:6; 10:28 - “destroy”!

Jesus Taught A Continued Existence Of Dead Men. Mk.

12:24-27

Consider The Rich Man And Lazarus. Lk. 16:19-31

Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?

What Is Hell Like?

It Is Torment. Rev. 14:11

It Involves An Eternal Fire. Mt. 5:22; 18:8-9; Mk. 9:43, 45, 47

It Involves Eternal Darkness. 2 Pet. 2:4,17; Mt. 8:11-12;

22:13-15; 25:30

There Will Be No Escape. 2 Pet. 2:4

A Place Of Unspeakable Wickedness. Mt. 25:41

Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?

Will You Believe In Hell Now Or Later?

What Will Judgment Day Be Like For You?

Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?

“human mortality is not the result of sin”

all the dead are unconscious between death & judgment

condition of lost and saved in hades is identical

Christ will banish wicked to hell but “not with on-going

torment”. “Sooner or later” those cast in hell will cease to exist.

“Eternal” and “everlasting” speaks of the nature of

punishment rather than its duration.

AFTER LIFE by F. LaGard Smith

Is Our Understanding of Hell A Human Tradition?

Is Our Understanding of Hell A Human Tradition?

I. The Use Of Hell In N.T.

II. There Is A Conscious

Existence After Death.

III. What Is Hell Like?