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What in the Hell is Hell?

URAVIP2ME

Veteran Member
Here:
Matthew 8:22
English Standard Version (ESV)
(22)And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
Jesus refers to living people as "the dead." He was using symbolic or figurative language.

In the case of Matthew 8:19-22 the answer to Jesus invitation to be his follower was permission to leave and bury his father.
If it was a real funeral that day the man would Not have been listening to Jesus but be at the funeral.
He would have been asking Jesus to come resurrect his father if his father was already dead.
So, the father was Not yet dead, but the son was begging off for time to later become Jesus' follower after his father later died in the future.
In other words, the man was Not willing to put kingdom interests ahead of his own wants. Whereas Jesus put kingdom interests first - Luke 4:43

That man was similar to the man who wanted to first say good-bye to his household, but Jesus said Not to put one's hand to the plough and look back.......
If one does Not keep his eyes on the kingdom, just like a ploughman who looks away, or looks back, then his life will not keep a straight spiritual path or symbolic furrow.
- Luke 9:60-62

All the actually dead people who Jesus resurrected were brought back to healthy physical life on earth.
 

NewChapter

GiveMeATicketToWork
In the case of Matthew 8:19-22 the answer to Jesus invitation to be his follower was permission to leave and bury his father.
If it was a real funeral that day the man would Not have been listening to Jesus but be at the funeral.
He would have been asking Jesus to come resurrect his father if his father was already dead.
So, the father was Not yet dead, but the son was begging off for time to later become Jesus' follower after his father later died in the future.
In other words, the man was Not willing to put kingdom interests ahead of his own wants. Whereas Jesus put kingdom interests first - Luke 4:43

That man was similar to the man who wanted to first say good-bye to his household, but Jesus said Not to put one's hand to the plough and look back.......
If one does Not keep his eyes on the kingdom, just like a ploughman who looks away, or looks back, then his life will not keep a straight spiritual path or symbolic furrow.
- Luke 9:60-62

All the actually dead people who Jesus resurrected were brought back to healthy physical life on earth.

Gonna put you on ignore UR, no offense meant.

Best wishes at the site!
Noah
 

URAVIP2ME

Veteran Member
Do you know what "sheol" is?
Can you tell me the difference between "hades" and "gehenna"?
What is "the lake of fire" and "tartarus"? All these are supposedly different words for "hell", but in the original languages of the Bible they are very different.
Have you done any study on these words?

Sheol is from the Hebrew and is the stone-cold grave where the dead 'sleep in death' until resurrected - Ecclesiastes 9:5; Psalms 115:17; Psalms 146:4; Acts of the Apostles 24:15
Hades/haides is the Greek for the KJV English words: hell or even hellfire.
Gehenna was translated in English as KJV hellfire. Gehenna was just a garbage pit outside of Jerusalem where things were destroyed and Not kept burning forever.
The definition of the 'lake of fire' is found at Revelation 20:13-14 and that lake is defined as ' second death '
Satan ends up in ' second death ' - Revelation 21:8
Jesus destroys sinner Satan - Hebrews 2:14 B, so ' second death ' is a fitting term for: destruction. As in the wicked will be destroyed forever - Psalms 92:7
Tartarus in Bible speak, or biblical definition, is the prison 'chains of darkness' for those fallen angels of Noah's day - Jude 1:6; 1 Peter 3:19-20 A.
 
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