Sentences with phrase «hint.the gehenna»

In James, when he says that the tongue is likened to «Gehenna»... what's he really saying?

Note there are THREE different words that translate as such — the aforementioned «Gehenna», but also «Hades» and the one - hit wonder «Tartarus» (or «Tartaroo»).

The valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) was outside the walls of Jerusalem, for a time thesite of idolatrous worship, including child sarcrifice, In the first century Gehenna was being used as the incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem.

Hi Everyone: Jesus referred to Gehenna in the gospels as a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Wouldn't it make a better story to say it starts over the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna?)

Gehenna was the trash dump outside Jerusalem, where all the dead carcasses were dumped.

into the pits of Gehenna, he was considered undeserving to have the burial a in memorial tomb.

It is not Jesus» Gehenna concept.

Hades is used to show Gehenna in the NT tho originally in Greek it is more Sheol than Gehenna.

Gehenna was where the body and soul were DESTROYED by fire.

In this sense Gehenna as used by Christ is different from Sheol which is a form of purgatory.

The Christian concept took Sheol as ceasing to exist on earth but you are resurrected to be punished in Gehenna or resurrected to Paradise to be rewarded.

Jesus spoke of «Gehenna»... a specific place... a «name» of a place that the Jewish People He was rebuking and speaking to would understand.

There were three different Greek words that have been mistranslated as «hell» — Hades, Tartarus / Tartaroo, and Gehenna.

In fact, it's so mistranslated somehow they believe a «hell» exists when there is only sheol and gehenna and for the pagan audience of its time, hades, places NOT spoken of being eternal.

In it I noted that Jesus uses the word gehenna eleven times in the New Testament and that he is the only person in the New Testament who uses gehenna regarding that reality.

The dead rich man is pictured in Hades (the unseen realm of the dead, mistranslated as «hell» in the KJV), not Gehenna («hell,» the place of final punishment).

Only one of these is an actual location, and there's nothing firey about it these days (Gehenna is now a garden).

Jesus Christ — By the time of Jesus, Gehenna was a name used for the place of final punishment.

I don't see how one can see the reference to Gehenna (commonly translated by hellfire) literally in Mat 5:22 unless they also take the coucil (which is the Sanhedrin) literally for the insult.

The word that Jesus uses in 5:22, 29, 30 is gehenna.

While such actions, if they are followed to their logical end, may lead to murder and adultery, by the time you get there, you will have done so much other damage to your life, your friends, your relationship, your spouse, your job, your children, your health, your finances, and everything else in life, that you life will basically be a gehenna.

If you are Squirrel - Jesus, then I am Squirrel - Zeus, striking them down from mount Olympus - front poarch - with my.22 LR Lightning Bolts, only to roast them in the everlasting (20 min) fire of Gehenna (Gerber) before stripping the flesh from their bones — taste like chicken.

1) Eternal fire (Psalm 11:6, Matthew 5:22, Matthew 13:42, Matthew 13:50, Matthew 18:7 - 9, Matthew 25:41, Jude 7) Isaiah 30:30,33 — Isaiah speaks of Topheth in the valley of Hinnom, where before it became Gehenna — the burning trash dump outside Jerusalem — it was the place of pagan worship where people burned alive their own children to their false god, Molech (2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:2 - 6) and God uses this as an illustration of a place where God will burn alive the unrighteous

If you teach that people can only choose heaven when God enables them to, and it is God Himself who makes the decision not to enable the doomed to go to heaven, then in fact He does choose some people for Gehenna.

Similarly, if God saves only those He chooses and leaves the rest to Gehenna even though He could have saved them, then that makes God unloving.

The Greek word Gehenna has the meaning of everlasting destruction (Matt 5:22; 10:28), and in which a person is placed in this position by God, will never return to life, but is dead forever.

There is no reason to question the authenticity of these sayings, or to doubt that Jesus accepted the current belief in the punishment of the wicked by everlasting fire in Gehenna.

The Sheol of the Old Testament was changed in the New Testament to be Gehenna, which is the trash dump fire which burned outside Jerusalem.

In Sheol, some distinctions were worked out so that even before the final judgment, part of Sheol was Paradise, and part was like Gehenna, the place of ultimate judgment.

The Greek equivalent is Gehenna.

Jesus never taught that the judgment of Gehenna would take place in the afterlife.

I don't think our contemporary regime of lite reading for college students is a one - way ticket to Gehenna, but colleges could do better and parents could help them by including some little lit among the bedtime stories.

In any case, the current Jewish idea of Gehenna is evident in the end of the story with the injunction to «cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.»

Whereas «sheol / hades» referred to a temporary destination, we find in the concept of gā - Hinnom (Heb) and géenna (Gehenna»)(Greek) the place or everlasting judgment and desolation.

In the NT the word gehenna is presented as the place in which the unrighteous will be thrown after the last judgment — a place of matyrdom for both body and soul as declared in Matt 5:29 - 30.

Gehenna was thus always associated with a place of bodily and spiritual punishment, not only for the Jews, but for all evil people.

is Gehenna.

Gehenna is an actual place in Israel, located in the Valley of Hinnom.

The New World Translation does not translate the Greek words sheol, hades, gehenna, and tartarus as «hell» because Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in hell.

But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, «Raqa,» will be answerable to the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, «You fool,» will be liable to fiery Gehenna.

His word for it, Gehenna, «the Valley of Hinnom,» is familiar in the writings of the later Judaism.

And this is the door of Gehenna.»

Here the contrast between entering life or the kingdom of God and being thrown into the eternal fire of Gehenna clearly connects the kingdom of God with the coming age.

Only by such dubious, and, in the last case, almost certainly mistaken inferences, however, can one introduce hope into Jesus» picture of Gehenna.

It is my understanding that in the Bible, Hell is derived from Gehenna (sp?)

But Gehenna is not the only — or even the primary — image used.

On the one side, Christians were to exercise undiscourageable goodwill toward evil men, even praying for those who slew them when no other manner of expressing goodwill remained; but, on the other side, the new faith retained the hopeless torture chamber of Gehenna, where punishment was supposed to go on in endless agony long after moral purpose in the torture had been lost.

The King James Bible talks about hell all over the place, but the newer English translations realize that the Hebrew word «sheol» doesn't refer to hell at all, and nor does the Greek «gehenna.»

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