While you do you homework continue to open the Bible and read it very carefully.
Angels and not mortals.
It a false comfort.
Merely means the grave.
The curtain was not rent prior to Christ so no one enters heaven as Christ was the first.
Correct, like Paul's expression - the next waking moment!
Hebrews 11:39-end - no one has received this promise - one body raised together!
Paul was given a vision of the 3rd Heaven and Earth epoc - God being ALL and in ALL.
So incredible he could not speak of what he saw.
Hard to believe you are wrong on every point you posted.
I'll try to educate you, but I still think it's a futile task. I have done exhaustive studies on topics of Hell, Hades, the Gehenna, the Lake of Fire, I wrote a book called "
Hell... If I Know" and so will share a few insightful pages from it.
[Unbelieving souls go to Hades (the underworld, but separate from Tartarus, where the demons are) and await their final judgment. At that time, they are resurrected to experience their final judgment. Which is what, to go back to Hades or deeper into the Abyss/Bottonless Pit? No, to be thrown into the Lake of Fire, which is Hell.
Death and Hades are on Judgment Day, thrown into tuenLakebif Fire and destroyed. This event also includes the 1st Heavens ( atmosphere snd universe) and 1st Earth and described in 2 Peter 3:10.
Hades is the holding place, a prison. It is much deeper than 6 feet! The second death is ultimate destruction. There cannot be an eternal state of indestructible destructuon or imperishanle perishing. Destruction means to put an end to. As we see bodies cremated in minutes - that is what fire does.
Fear God can and will destroy both body and soul.
Some of the ideas about Hell came from Gehenna, The Valley of Hinnom, a deep ravine south of Jerusalem. This is where the Cannanites used to sacrifice and burn humans to Molech, a false god. Later, it became a perpetual burning dump for dead and diseased animals. Symbolically and physically, Gehenna gave the Jews a perspective of Hell. Jesus even cursed the Pharisees to the Gehenna (Matthew 23:33 YLT). So it was a shadow representation of the final Gehenna ON EARTH.
SHEOL comes from the word "
shaol", which means to ask, demand or require. So Hades (and Satan) therefore is hungry and unsatisfied, asking, demanding and requiring souls. Satans drawing power tempts souls to, "Come to Daddy!" The lost store up wrath and sin pulling them closer to their destiny. Fortunately, God has a strong drawing power of Grace to thwart Satan's and our actions.
You have to ask, what satisfaction and sense of accomplishment would Satan get from just tempting people to just enter into a soul sleep and then at the end just get to be resurrected and thrown into a fire for a minute of conscious pain? Unless of course hell was eternal, then he would have their company.
Here are some verses that refute soul sleep:
In Job 10:21-22, The "land of darkness and deep shadow" is not a description of a grave.
In Job 11:7-8, The "depths of God" are compared to the
depths of Sheol - obviously deeper than 6 feet.
In Job 26:5-6, Hades also means hidden and unseen from us. The description of departed spirits " trembling under the waters" suggests under the crust of the earth's aquifers. "Abaddon has no covering". Abaddon is the angel of the Abyss, the destroyer released during the Apocalypse (Rev. 9:11).
So we can see that Abaddon is not in a burial grave or tomb with the bones of a dead person!!!
Job 38:17 "Have the
gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the
gates of the deepest darkness?"
This reveals that death is a doorway, it has gates. Jesus made a reference to the gates of Hades in (Matthew 16:18)
In Deuteronomy 32:22, A
"fire is kindled" in God's anger "and burns to the "
lowest part of Sheol and consumes the earth with its yield and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains". This is a key verse that actually describes a super volcanic eruption that will take place in the end.
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Do not hold back discipline from the child, although you strike him with a rod, he will not die. You shall stike him with a rod and RESCUE his soul from SHEOL." Proverbs 24:13-14 Now obviously discipline does not save us from physical death
and the grave. No, this is talking about saving the child's soul from Sheol.
Jonah 2: 1-7 describes Jonah crying out from the "
depth of Sheol". The belly of the whale was not a grave. No, Jonah died and cried out to God. "
Water encompassed me to the point of death ... I descended to the roots of the mountains, the earth with its bars (gates) was around me forever, but You have brought up my life FROM THE PIT, O LORD my God."
Luke 16:23-31 is not a parable! Parables don't mension names of real people, like Abraham. What moral truth could be gained from describing a place that does not exist? Parables don't describe fictional, abstract territories.
2 Peter 2:4-
6 "For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast
them down to hell (
Tartarus, Abyss, Bottomless Pit, the deepest part of the underworld) and delivered
them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah,
one of eight
people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned
them to destruction, making
them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
Matthew11:23 And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades; for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
This is not referring to the grave, everyone has gone to the grave who died or has been cremated. This is a distinct judgment of a particular city that denied Christ.
Ezekiel 26:20-21 Here again,
the lower parts of the earth, " the pit" are mentioned. God says,
" I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth ... I will bring terrors on you ..." Does that sound like sleeping in the grave?
Ezekiel 32:24 is a prophecy. During the Great Tribulation, inhabitants_ on the earth _ when it splits opens _ will fall into these fissures, the pit, and some will try to climb out in terror and be snared.
Psalm 140:10 " burning coals fall on them ... cast into fire into deep pits from which they cannot arise."] Various snippets taken from " Hell ... If I Know", By Ronald D. Bruno
You'd have to distort the above scriptures, symbolically misinterpret them to conform to your believes. Go ahead, but peddling your false doctrines won't convince the overrwhelming majority of Christians.
