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As a preliminary here are all the verses in which "sheol" is present in the old testament here "sheol" is translated as "hell".
found 63 containing: 'hell'
  1. Genesis 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to hell to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
  2. Genesis 42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.
  3. Genesis 44:29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.
  4. Genesis 44:31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to hell.
  5. Numbers 16:30 But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into hell; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.
  6. Numbers 16:33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into hell: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
  7. Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest hell, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
  8. 1Samuel 2:6 Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to hell, and bringeth up.
  9. 2Samuel 22:6 The cords of hell were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
  10. 1Kings 2:6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to hell in peace.
  11. 1Kings 2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to hell with blood.
  12. Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to hell shall come up no more.
  13. Job 11:8 It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
  14. Job 14:13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in hell, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  15. Job 17:13 If I look for hell as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
  16. Job 17:16 It shall go down to the bars of hell, When once there is rest in the dust.
  17. Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to hell.
  18. Job 24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So doth hell those that have sinned.
  19. Job 26:6 hell is naked before God, And Abaddon hath no covering.
  20. Psalms 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In hell who shall give thee thanks?
  21. Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned back unto hell, Even all the nations that forget God.
  22. Psalms 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul to hell; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
  23. Psalms 18:5 The cords of hell were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
  24. Psalms 30:3 O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from hell; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
  25. Psalms 31:17 Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in hell.
  26. Psalms 49:14 They are appointed as a flock for hell; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for hell to consume, That there be no habitation for it.
  27. Psalms 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of hell; For he will receive me. Selah
  28. Psalms 55:15 Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into hell; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
  29. Psalms 86:13 For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  30. Psalms 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto hell.
  31. Psalms 89:48 What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of hell? Selah
  32. Psalms 116:3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  33. Psalms 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
  34. Psalms 141:7 As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of hell.
  35. Proverbs 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as hell, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
  36. Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on hell;
  37. Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, Going down to the chambers of death.
  38. Proverbs 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of hell.
  39. Proverbs 15:11 hell and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
  40. Proverbs 15:24 To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from hell beneath.
  41. Proverbs 23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from hell.
  42. Proverbs 27:20 hell and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.
  43. Proverbs 30:16 hell; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.
  44. Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in hell, whither thou goest.
  45. Song 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as hell; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.
  46. Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it.
  47. Isaiah 14:9 hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
  48. Isaiah 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to hell, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
  49. Isaiah 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
  50. Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
  51. Isaiah 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
  52. Isaiah 38:10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of hell: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
  53. Isaiah 38:18 For hell cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
  54. Isaiah 57:9 And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
  55. Ezekiel 31:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to hell I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
  56. Ezekiel 31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
  57. Ezekiel 31:17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
  58. Ezekiel 32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
  59. Ezekiel 32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to hell with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
  60. Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of hell; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O hell, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
  61. Amos 9:2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
  62. Jonah 2:2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of hell cried I, And thou heardest my voice.
  63. Habakkuk 2:5 Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as hell, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.
 
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And here are the verses in the new testament containing "hades". Hades is translated as "hell".
found 10 containing: 'hell'
  1. Matthew 11:23 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto hell: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have remained until this day.
  2. Matthew 16:18 And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
  3. Luke 10:15 And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto hell.
  4. Luke 16:23 And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
  5. Acts 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto hell, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.
  6. Acts 2:31 he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto hell, nor did his flesh see corruption.
  7. Revelation 1:18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of hell.
  8. Revelation 6:8 And I saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death; and hell followed with him. And there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
  9. Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and hell gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
  10. Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.
And here are the verses in which the translators used "hell"
found 13 containing: 'hell'
  1. Matthew 5:22 but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgement; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; and whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of the hell of fire.
  2. Matthew 5:29 And if thy right eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell.
  3. Matthew 5:30 And if thy right hand causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body go into hell.
  4. Matthew 10:28 And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
  5. Matthew 18:9 And if thine eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.
  6. Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.
  7. Matthew 23:33 Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgement of hell?
  8. Mark 9:43 And if thy hand cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed, rather than having thy two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
  9. Mark 9:45 And if thy foot cause thee to stumble, cut it off: it is good for thee to enter into life halt, rather than having thy two feet to be cast into hell.
  10. Mark 9:47 And if thine eye cause thee to stumble, cast it out: it is good for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell;
  11. Luke 12:5 But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
  12. James 3:6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
  13. 2Peter 2:4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement;
 

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Read the first two posts in this thread and formulate your own view of hell.
 

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The Catholic Church says the following about hell in The Catechism of the Catholic Church
IV. Hell

1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: "He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."[SUP]610 [/SUP]Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.[SUP]611 [/SUP]To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell."

1034 Jesus often speaks of "Gehenna" of "the unquenchable fire" reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost.[SUP]612 [/SUP]Jesus solemnly proclaims that he "will send his angels, and they will gather . . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,"[SUP]613 [/SUP]and that he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!"[SUP]614[/SUP]

1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire."[SUP]615 [/SUP]The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.

1036 The affirmations of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are at the same time an urgent call to conversion: "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few."[SUP]616[/SUP]

Since we know neither the day nor the hour, we should follow the advice of the Lord and watch constantly so that, when the single course of our earthly life is completed, we may merit to enter with him into the marriage feast and be numbered among the blessed, and not, like the wicked and slothful servants, be ordered to depart into the eternal fire, into the outer darkness where "men will weep and gnash their teeth."[SUP]617[/SUP]

1037 God predestines no one to go to hell;[SUP]618 [/SUP]for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want "any to perish, but all to come to repentance":[SUP]619[/SUP]
Father, accept this offering
from your whole family.
Grant us your peace in this life,
save us from final damnation,
and count us among those you have chosen.
[SUP]620[/SUP]​
  • 610 1 ⇒ Jn 3:14-15.
  • 611 Cf. ⇒ Mt 25:31-46.
  • 612 Cf. ⇒ Mt 5:22, ⇒ 29; ⇒ 10:28; ⇒ 13:42, ⇒ 50; ⇒ Mk 9:43-48.
  • 613 ⇒ Mt 13:41-42.
  • 614 ⇒ Mt 25:41.
  • 615 Cf. DS 76; 409; 411; 801; 858; 1002; 1351; 1575; Paul VI, CPG # 12.
  • 616 ⇒ Mt 7:13-14.
  • 617 LG 48 # 3; ⇒ Mt 22:13; cf. ⇒ Heb 9:27; ⇒ Mt 25:13, ⇒ 26, ⇒ 30, ⇒ 31 ⇒ 46.
  • 618 Cf. Council of Orange II (529): DS 397; Council of Trent (1547):1567.
  • 619 ⇒ 2 Pet 3:9.
  • 620 Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 88.
 

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The Catholic Church says the following about hell in The Catechism of the Catholic Church
IV. Hell

1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: "He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."[SUP]610 [/SUP]Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.[SUP]611 [/SUP]To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell."

1034 Jesus often speaks of "Gehenna" of "the unquenchable fire" reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost.[SUP]612 [/SUP]Jesus solemnly proclaims that he "will send his angels, and they will gather . . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,"[SUP]613 [/SUP]and that he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!"[SUP]614[/SUP]

1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire."[SUP]615 [/SUP]The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.

1036 The affirmations of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are at the same time an urgent call to conversion: "Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few."[SUP]616[/SUP]

Since we know neither the day nor the hour, we should follow the advice of the Lord and watch constantly so that, when the single course of our earthly life is completed, we may merit to enter with him into the marriage feast and be numbered among the blessed, and not, like the wicked and slothful servants, be ordered to depart into the eternal fire, into the outer darkness where "men will weep and gnash their teeth."[SUP]617[/SUP]

1037 God predestines no one to go to hell;[SUP]618 [/SUP]for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want "any to perish, but all to come to repentance":[SUP]619[/SUP]
Father, accept this offering
from your whole family.
Grant us your peace in this life,
save us from final damnation,
and count us among those you have chosen.
[SUP]620[/SUP]​
  • 610 1 ⇒ Jn 3:14-15.
  • 611 Cf. ⇒ Mt 25:31-46.
  • 612 Cf. ⇒ Mt 5:22, ⇒ 29; ⇒ 10:28; ⇒ 13:42, ⇒ 50; ⇒ Mk 9:43-48.
  • 613 ⇒ Mt 13:41-42.
  • 614 ⇒ Mt 25:41.
  • 615 Cf. DS 76; 409; 411; 801; 858; 1002; 1351; 1575; Paul VI, CPG # 12.
  • 616 ⇒ Mt 7:13-14.
  • 617 LG 48 # 3; ⇒ Mt 22:13; cf. ⇒ Heb 9:27; ⇒ Mt 25:13, ⇒ 26, ⇒ 30, ⇒ 31 ⇒ 46.
  • 618 Cf. Council of Orange II (529): DS 397; Council of Trent (1547):1567.
  • 619 ⇒ 2 Pet 3:9.
  • 620 Roman Missal, EP I (Roman Canon) 88.


I MOSTLY agree with that.



Pax CHRISTI



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I MOSTLY agree with that.
Pax CHRISTI
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We have another thread advocating either annihilation or soul-sleep or both. Since both are contrary to the Nicene Creed I thought that the other thread ought to be moved to World Religion and Speculative Theology and so I created this thread to promote discussion about what the holy scriptures say on the topic. I used a 66 book bible for the searches (the ASV).
 
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