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A correction of a misconception. There is no such place as hell!


The Hebrew word sheol appears in the Book of Psalms fifteen times. It is translated hell seven times, and grave eight times. There is no valid reason at all why it should not have been translated the same in every instance. Had this been done, much would have been accomplished in freeing the minds of the public from the Dark Ages blasphemy against the glorious name of a loving God. These uses of the word sheol in the Book of Psalms are as follows:
"For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave [sheol] who shall give thanks?" (PSALM 6:5) What a clear and positive statement we here have to prove that those in sheol are unconscious! The reference is to the righteous who, being always glad to praise God while they are alive, would be glad to give thanks to him after they die were it possible to do so; but it is not, for they remain asleep in death until the resurrection.
"The wicked shall be [re] turned into hell [sheol], and all the nations that forget God." (PSALM 9:17) The word "turned" is here a translation of the Hebrew word shuwb, which is properly translated returned. The message of this psalm applies to the period of Christ's reign, during which the Lord will "judge the world in righteousness." (Verse 8) It will be then that the Lord will be a "refuge for the oppressed." (Verse 9) The Lord will then be known by the "judgment which he executeth."-Verse 16
Revelation 20:7-9 informs us that the people of the nations who fail to obey the laws of Christ's kingdom are to be destroyed by the direct judgements of God; and it is evidently to this that PSALM 9:17 refers to. Hence we can see the appropriateness of the use of the Hebrew word shuwb, meaning returned. These wicked nations, having been awakened from the sleep of death and given a full opportunity to obey the laws of the kingdom and live, will be "returned" into sheol, the Bible hell-not a place of torment, but the condition of death, oblivion, for ultimately "all the wicked God will destroy."-PSALM 145:20
"Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell [sheol]; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." (PSALM 16:10) The Apostle Peter quoted this text during the course of his Pentecostal Sermon and explained that it applies to Jesus-that it was Jesus' soul that was not left in sheol. (ACTS 2:27-32) Thus we have an irrefutable proof that sheol is not a place of torment, for surely no one could think of Jesus going to such a place when he died.
The translators must have known that the "Holy One" of this text was Jesus, yet they used the word hell to describe his condition in death, despite the fact that in most other instances where the righteous were concerned they have translated sheol by the word grave or pit. The reason for this is obvious, for they were caught in a dilemma by the fact that it is Jesus' soul that is said to be in sheol. Had they used the word grave, they would have been admitting that Jesus' soul was in the grave, in oblivion; so knowing that in the minds of the average reader hell was at least a place of life, they used it, hoping perhaps no one would inquire too diligently as to why Jesus was in hell, or just what his experience there might have been.
To admit, through a translation, that Jesus' soul was in the grave, the state of death, would have disproved another of the Dark Age dogmas; namely, the erroneous theory of the immortality of the soul. Actually, Jesus' soul did go into death, into sheol. The Prophet Isaiah writes concerning him that "he hath poured out his soul unto death"; his soul was made "an offering for sin." (ISAIAH 53:12,10) It was essential that Jesus give his life, his soul, in order for the human race to be redeemed from death. It was because Jesus took the sinner's place in sheol, in death, that all will be awakened from death and be given an opportunity to live forever "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." Corinthians I 15:22

Lets correct more misconception.

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