1. Is Our Understanding of Hell A Human Tradition?

2. Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition? We Should Not Be Afraid To Have Our Beliefs Challenged!

3. Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?  Edward Fudge  F. LaGard Smith  Homer Hailey  Stephen Clark Goad  Harry Buis  Others....

4. Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition? All we know of the “unseen” is what has been revealed by God through His Word! We need to keep a clear view of the “unseen” realm!

5. Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition? The Use Of Hell In The New Testament  Hades - (lit. an unseen place); (1) the place of the dead underworld (Acts 2:27); (2) usually in the NT as the temporary underworld prison where the souls of the godly and ungodly await the judgment (Lk. 16:23)  Gehenna - lit. the Valley of the Sons of Hinnom, ….figuratively in the Gospels for hell, a fiery place of eternal punishment for the ungodly dead. (Mt. 5:22).  Tartarus - the name of a subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to the Gehenna of the Jews. (2 Pet. 2:4)  Sheol - Old Testament - (Psa. 16:10) - 1) Sheol, underworld, grave, hell, pit 1a) the underworld 1b) Sheol - the OT designation for the abode of the dead.

6. Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition? There Is A Conscious Existence After Death  A Failure To See Context Of Some Verses. Eccl. 9:10-11  Do We Go Out Of Existence At Death Or In Judgment When We Are Cast Into Hell? Mt. 18:6; 10:28 - “destroy”!  Jesus Taught A Continued Existence Of Dead Men. Mk. 12:24-27  Consider The Rich Man And Lazarus. Lk. 16:19-31

7. Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition? What Is Hell Like?  It Is Torment. Rev. 14:11  It Involves An Eternal Fire. Mt. 5:22; 18:8-9; Mk. 9:43, 45, 47  It Involves Eternal Darkness. 2 Pet. 2:4,17; Mt. 8:11-12; 22:13-15; 25:30  There Will Be No Escape. 2 Pet. 2:4  A Place Of Unspeakable Wickedness. Mt. 25:41

8. Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition? Will You Believe In Hell Now Or Later? What Will Judgment Day Be Like For You?

9. Is Our Understanding Of Hell A Human Tradition?  “human mortality is not the result of sin”  all the dead are unconscious between death & judgment  condition of lost and saved in hades is identical  Christ will banish wicked to hell but “not with on-going torment”. “Sooner or later” those cast in hell will cease to exist.  “Eternal” and “everlasting” speaks of the nature of punishment rather than its duration. AFTER LIFE by F. LaGard Smith

10. Is Our Understanding of Hell A Human Tradition? I. The Use Of Hell In N.T. II. There Is A Conscious Existence After Death. III. What Is Hell Like?