![]() ![]() ( Acts 2:31, 32) Obviously, then, when “hell” is used in these Bibles, it simply refers to the Grave. ( Genesis 37:35 Job 14:13) Even Jesus Christ is spoken of as being in hell between the time of his death and his resurrection. The Bibles that use the word “hell” indicate that faithful men, such as Jacob and Job, expected to go to hell. ( Jeremiah 32:35) Such an idea is contrary to the Bible’s teaching that “God is love.” ( 1 John 4:8) He wants us to worship him out of love, not fear of eternal torment.- Matthew 22:36-38. The idea of eternal torment is repugnant to God. Long after Adam sinned, God inspired a Bible writer to say: “The wages sin pays is death.” ( Romans 6:23) No further penalty is justified, because “the one who has died has been acquitted from his sin.”- Romans 6:7. ![]() God has not changed the punishment for defying his laws. If God were actually sending Adam to a fiery hell, He surely would have mentioned it. Later, after Adam sinned, God told him what his punishment would be: “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” ( Genesis 3:19) He would pass out of existence. ( Genesis 2:17) He said nothing about eternal torment in hell. ![]() God told the first man, Adam, that the penalty for breaking God’s law would be death. God has set death, not torment in a fiery hell, as the penalty for sin. Instead, the Bible says: “Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. “Neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge, shall be in hell.” ( Ecclesiastes 9:10, Douay-Rheims Version) Hell is not filled with sounds of pain. The dead are unconscious and so cannot feel pain. The Bible shows that people in “the Grave” are in a state of nonexistence. ![]() The original words translated as “hell” in some older Bible translations (Hebrew, “Sheol” Greek, “Hades”) basically refer to “the Grave,” that is, the common grave of mankind. ![]()
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