Grailhunter
Well-Known Member
Bearing false witness again?
Didn't you get the memo? Jesus defeated Satan on the CROSS.
And then He rose _ from the dead_ in the third day.
Satan still has many, in fact, most of the world in bondage, but the door is open to eternal life for thise who believe. Death has no sting anymore.
When Jesus literally and physically returns for JUDGMENT, He will lock Satan and his horde up in the Abyss for 1000 years and destroy all those who have taken the mark of the beast.
That word for Hell is mistranslated. It is Sheol, Hades, the underworld, deep below the surface of the earth. It is simply caverns of darkness where the unbelieving dead are in prison, awaiting their final judgment, when they will be resurrected just to be thrown into the Lake of Fire (which can correctly be called Hell). Death and Hades are cast into the Lake. That means all who were in it.
I can teach you about Hades, but you would not receive it because JW org. has distorted that concept as well as many others.
You are not teachable and so it is a futile discussion that I really don't care to continue. Go your way with what you believe. Your efforts in this forum are futile - just as they are when you spend hundreds of hours every year knocking on doors. There is no fruit in your labor because the Holy Spirit does not grow churches with false doctrines.
Your conventions are dead too, I have been to them. It is really sad.
I have been to the meetings as well, where each member of the congregation takes his turn teaching. I was shocked, thinking thjs huybdkesnt knkwnwhat he is talking about and as I look at the whole congregation nodding their heada in agreement, Injust thought OMG. A their teaching is usually tainted with something that is false (which is actually just a review of the Watchtower magazine that they regurgitate back like children reading from a script). They force feed you every week and don't even allow you to go off script. You are in essence brain washed, not allowed to think for yourseves.
Really, you would be much better off if you chucked the counterfeit Bible called the New World Ttranslation and the Watchtower Magazine and got disfellowshipped! Then go out and buy yourself a NKJ, NASB or any one of the many popular versions and just pray and read the Bible only.
I have explained this as accurately as it can be and you may already know and have noted some of this.
Not referring to the Jehovah's Witnesses.
But Hades in effect is a misnomer and a compromise that the biblical writers had to do because they were writing Christian texts in a Pagan language. Neither the Hebrew nor Greek language had a word for hell. The Jews had a good reason, they did not have a hell or a devil in their religion, still do not today.
The Apostles (and some biblical era Jews) knew there was a fiery hell, but they had no language to express it. There are several words in the New Testament that they had to find the closest and best Greek word to use.
First off, if you have a Bible that has an Old Testament that uses the word Hades, you know that it is a mistranslation, because Greek words do not appear in Hebrew texts.
The biblical writers borrowed the word hades from Greco-Roman mythology. Hades was a Greco-Roman god which reigned over an underworld region of the same name. Not a fiery hell but more like a prison. So the biblical writers used the Greek word hades but gave it a definition of a fiery torment.
Now Sheol is different....a concept barely known by the Jews....a place....not well defined....in some references only considered the grave. Christians do not give it much mind.