IS SHEOL REAL?

[ButterflyJones]

I don't think I understand your question.

OK

 

[Robert Gwin]

What is Sheol?

The general characteristics of an afterlife in a place called Sheol was not unique to the ancient Israelites. Most ancient religions believed in a spiritual place like Sheol…. an afterlife with various descriptions.

The word Sheol appears 60 times in the Hebrew Bible.

In 14 verses in the Hebrew Bible souls were said to “gather with their people or gather with their fathers.”

14 Bible verses about Gathered To One's People

(Descriptors; Hebrew Bible vs Old Testament….the term Old Testament refers to the Christianized version of the Hebrew Bible, that includes several alterations including the removal of God’s name….or the Tetragrammaton YHWH around 6,000 times and replacing it with the generic term God or Lord. And changed all the names of persons, places, and things from Y's to J's in a thousand places?)

Although Sheol is the oldest known destination for souls, its description is inconsistent in the Hebrew Bible and the other religions of antiquity. As a whole it is not a place of punishment but rather where all souls go …. good people and bad people.

(Before the New Testament, Heaven was the abode of God, not people…. Souls.)

The existence of Sheol is mostly ignored in many Christian denominations. In some Christian beliefs Sheol appears as a shadow tradition having different characteristics.

The Catholics have a couple traditions, one where a place like Sheol is possibly a spiritual place of "temporary" punishment called purgatory, with various characteristics and connections to the physical world.

In another tradition Sheol has levels, the top of which is a good place referred to as paradise. Since the Bible does not indicate that Yeshua went from the cross to Heaven, some believe that Yeshua’s reference to Paradise when He was on cross was the upper level of Sheol….the good part. Where Christ said to the thief on the cross next to Him…Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:43 So in this tradition Yeshua and the thief went to Paradise in Sheol.

In some variations of this tradition Yeshua goes from the cross to Sheol to teach “the Gospel” to the Jews and people there, as an offering of salvation to them. Some see the reference to “spirits in prison” in the New Testament as a reference to this event….. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 1st Peter 3:19

As time went on Rabbinical Judaism and the Talmud further expanded on Jewish beliefs regarding Sheol.

So we are left with the question….Is Sheol real? With it being mentioned 60 times in the Hebrew Bible, it is clear that the Hebrews/Israelites/Jews believed in it and as it is they still do. The rest is traditions.

It is real of course, but most have no idea what it is.

 

[strepho]

CHEDEL in Hebrew means = state of the dead. ABEDAH in Hebrew means/ Hades, lost, destruction. In Hebrew the grave is called sheol. Read Luke chapter 16, the Richman and Lazarus. Jesus gives a analogy. Their are Two sides of the Gulf. Neither side can cross over. The saints are in paradise. And the wicked or spirtualty dead are in sheol, called hell, and Hades. Sheol or Hades is holding place for the spirtualty dead or wicked. They're waiting for judgement day. I'm not judging anyone. First Peter 3:19. Ny which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison. ECUWR in Hebrew means = prison. Second Peter 2:4. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; I documented this. Hell, sheol, hades, are the same. Its holding place for the spirtualty dead or wicked.

 

[Grailhunter]

CHEDEL in Hebrew means = state of the dead. ABEDAH in Hebrew means/ Hades, lost, destruction. In Hebrew the grave is called sheol. Read Luke chapter 16, the Richman and Lazarus. Jesus gives a analogy. Their are Two sides of the Gulf. Neither side can cross over. The saints are in paradise. And the wicked or spirtualty dead are in sheol, called hell, and Hades. Sheol or Hades is holding place for the spirtualty dead or wicked. They're waiting for judgement day. I'm not judging anyone. First Peter 3:19. Ny which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison. ECUWR in Hebrew means = prison. Second Peter 2:4. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; I documented this. Hell, sheol, hades, are the same. Its holding place for the spirtualty dead or wicked.

Glad you are interested in word study.....good start.
But you are mixed up on a few things.
The Hebrew does not have a word for Hades....think about it....Hades is Greek. And the Jews do not believe in Hades or Hell.
You are sighting the word Hell in the Bible.....and you are right....some Bibles do have the word Hell in them....but the word Hell does not appear in the scriptures. The Hebrew nor the Greek languages have a word equivalent for the English word Hell.
And you are right the Old Testament references are inconsistent, as I pointed out, and sometimes Sheol is refered to as the grave.
And Sheol and Hell and Hades are not the same.....the word Hell is not in the scriptures and Hades is a Greek word and a Greek god and a Greek place.....that was used in the New Testament but does not and cannot appear in the Old Testament....its Greek!
Now if you are serious in studying the Bible and it languages, you need to stay away from the King James Version and get better linguistic books.