Why does God send people to hell?

[Rhema]

Hell, literally meaning a "concealed place"

Garee, Hell does NOT literally mean a "concealed place."

Where did you get this from?

Hell is the English word chosen to translated the Greek word hades

LINK to the Liddell Scott Lexicon for hades
A. II. as appellative,Hades, the world below

2. the grave, death,​

C'mon friend, you have GOT to stop making things up.

Thanks,
Rhema

 

[Rhema]

And has as others have said, mankind who bring evil from their hearts are sent to hell.

... the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;​

(Genesis 8:21 KJV)

 

[Garee]

Garee, Hell does NOT literally mean a "concealed place."

Where did you get this from?

Hell is the English word chosen to translated the Greek word hades

LINK to the Liddell Scott Lexicon for hades
A. II. as appellative,Hades, the world below

2. the grave, death,​

C'mon friend, you have GOT to stop making things up.

Thanks,
Rhema

Thanks sorry for misunderstanding

hell (n.)​

also Hell, Old English hel, helle, "nether world, abode of the dead, infernal regions, place of torment for the wicked after death," from Proto-Germanic *haljō "the underworld" (source also of Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Dutch hel, Old Norse hel, German Hölle, Gothic halja "hell"). Literally "concealed place" (compare Old Norse hellir "cave, cavern"), from PIE root *kel- (1) "to cover, conceal, save."

Jonah 2:2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

Belly of the whale. . heart of the earth. hidden places of suffering crying out to God. God strengthened them to finish the spiritual work.

God does not hear the cry of the dead. Both Jonah and Jesus were strengthened to preach the gospel.

Jonah the murmurer kicked against the pricks the letter of the law (death) and wanted to die showing us his racist spirit.

While Jesus the Son of man did the will of the father that worked within to both (the key) reveal the will and empower to do it to the father good pleasure.

Yoked with him our daily burdens can be lighter with a living hope beyond hell.

Philippians 2:13-14 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
;Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

 

[Rhema]

Thanks sorry for misunderstanding

Your misunderstanding comes from your use of bad translations.

Jonah 2:2 was not written with the word "hell." The Hebrew text LITERALLY says SHEOL. And the Greek LXX literally says κοιλιας which means belly.

You will always misunderstand if you mix everything all together... like colours, it will all turn to brown.

The Etymology of a word is NOT the definition.

- Your link came from an online Etymology Dictionary, not a real dictionary. LINK

Old Saxon hellia, Dutch hel, Old Norse hel, German Hölle, Gothic halja "hell"). Literally "concealed place"​

We don't speak Old Saxon, Dutch, Old Norse, or German. While an English word may have originated in those languages, it doesn't mean the same thing as in those languages.

Follow this LINK to the Cambridge Dictionary of ENGLISH... and show me where it says that hell literally means a "concealed place."

Don't get confused between the Definition of a word and its Etymology (LINK).

Yoked with him our daily burdens can be lighter with a living hope beyond hell.

How can you be yoked with him if you use wrong words?

Blessings,
Rhema

 

[Bill]

Your misunderstanding comes from your use of bad translations.

Jonah 2:2 was not written with the word "hell." The Hebrew text LITERALLY says SHEOL. And the Greek LXX literally says κοιλιας which means belly.

You will always misunderstand if you mix everything all together... like colours, it will all turn to brown.

The Etymology of a word is NOT the definition.

- Your link came from an online Etymology Dictionary, not a real dictionary. LINK

Old Saxon hellia, Dutch hel, Old Norse hel, German Hölle, Gothic halja "hell"). Literally "concealed place"​

We don't speak Old Saxon, Dutch, Old Norse, or German. While an English word may have originated in those languages, it doesn't mean the same thing as in those languages.

Follow this LINK to the Cambridge Dictionary of ENGLISH... and show me where it says that hell literally means a "concealed place."

Don't get confused between the Definition of a word and its Etymology (LINK).


How can you be yoked with him if you use wrong words?

Blessings,
Rhema

Just a question are you saying that Sheol is equated as hell . I always thought they were two separate things all together.

 

[Rhema]

Just a question are you saying that Sheol is equated as hell . I always thought they were two separate things all together.

And that's a really good question. Enough to have me pontificate.

When Alexander the Great (a Greek) conquered everything from Italy to India - the whole known world; he wept because there were no more empires to conquer. But rumor had it that he encountered an "exotic woman" in India. Now what would be exotic if not an Indian woman? But think about it. They were all Indian women in India, right? So amongst the millions of Indian women, what would be exotic? A Chinese chick. I contend that Alexander the Great saw a Chinese chick and contracted Yellow Fever. And went, 'Saddle up me boys, we're going east to conquer some more women,' (sorry - empires). But unfortunately he woke up dead the next morning. See; his generals hadn't been home for thirty years or more, and ... well you get my drift.

All this to say that when the generals battled it out for territory, Ptolemy the First took over Egypt. His successor, Ptolemy II looked around his kingdom, especially in the city of Alexandria, and thought, "HECK !!! I got a lot of JEWS here, and I have no clue what these people believe." And so he commissioned a Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, which we know today as the Septuagint or the LXX.

Whenever the Septuagint translators encountered the Hebrew word SHEOL, they used the Greek word HADES in their translation. So yes, the Greek LXX directly equates Sheol with Hades, and then by extension Hell.

But that doesn't mean that Jews believed Greek theology. There was just no better Greek word available for SHEOL.

The best way to understand all this, then, is backwards - when one reads Hell, one should think Hades, but know the Jews meant Sheol, which is the hole dug in the ground into which dead corpses are buried.

So Sheol doesn't mean Hell.... Hell means Sheol.

Thank you Bill, I had fun typing this. The most fun I had all day. (@Christ4Ever)

Rhema

(Disclaimer, the narrative about Alexander the Great is based upon my own personal experience with an exotic woman - yes, a Chinese chick - who then married me. Our first date was at a 12 course banquet held for her grandmother's 85 birthday party in Chinatown, and I had never eaten Chinese food before. I never had a chance.)