Everything! Rev. During Jesus' time, it was the city's garbage burner. [however,] there is no evidence for this claim; it can be traced to a commentary on the book of Psalms written by Rabbi David Kimhi in the early thirteenth century CE. Add to that the teaching of the church since the earliest days. "Gehenna" was a very concrete location in Jesus' time. However, the word simply means the Valley (heb. You can also spare us quasi-racist ideas like >>legalistic "glasses" that came into the church from the Latin converts<<, Jude 1:7 "In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. Check out Matt 25:46. Isaiah closes his book with these words: Isaiah 66:24 (ESV) And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. Jesus actually talked of kolasis aionian temporary correction/discipline. ", Ezekiel 16:55 "And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.". The "ravine of hinnom" (Gehenna) was the city garbage dump in Jerusalem where the garbage was burned. Voting for the Political Party of Infanticide in 2020 is Great Says JD Greear. And that's probably what Jerome is after, distinguishing between this end-less but not time-less eternity and the God's eternity without such constraints, wihtout beginning or end. Jude uses the fate of Sodom as recounted in Genesis as a type of divine punishment. This is getting silly! We are not all doomed as so many believe. The three parables you mention also do not say how long the consequences for failure last or whether there is anything else to take place afterward. First, you still seem to think you are in a position to lecture Christ on how to conduct his affairs. Cog of Blood. The people in the surrounding areas dumped their trash in Gehenna, where it burned day and night. But no matter what they eat, do not die, THEY LEAVE WHAT THEY ARE EATING TO BECOME A FLY OR MOTH. Paul is not only full of your verses but also full of admonition that salvation through grace doesn't mean a free ride for everybody. This article is more additional proof against the doctrine of eternal torment. As for Mark 9:44, if you look at Isaiah 66:24 you will see it is bodies that are being eaten by 'worms' and fire. Then he quotes Peter Head, G. R. Beasley-Murray, and Lloyd Bailey in tracing the origin of this notion to Rabbi David Kimchi in AD 1200. He does not tell us where he got that information from and that is all we hear of it. (66:5) If these bodies in Gehenna are meant to typify being in "hell" why would anyone want to go look at them? "At least until a council comes along decades later and says that anyone not confessing a belief in an "eternal hell" is not a Christian? The move is part of its restructuring following the acquisition of Neovia in 2019 for US$1.81bn. I believe you need to be alive to feel the effects of punishment. Sodom and Gommorah were famous cities, and distinct in their time. And Christ spoke (e.g. The soul that sinneth it shall DIE, not be given eternal life to burn forever and ever and ever. http://www.afterlife.co.nz/2012/featured-article/tracing-the-road-to-gehenna/ An article looking at Gehenna in the OT and why Jesus may have chosen to use this word. "With the common sense which often characterizes Jewish commentators, Kimchi says that the place was the dump of the city, where fires were always kept burning to destroy the refuse . Purchasers of the Photo Companion to the Bible and the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands are granted liberal usage rights for the images for personal and educational purposes. Not only that, if there were any doubt, Jesus is further clarifying what was already mentioned in Daniel 12:2 eternal is an appropriate word for the English translation. When the food source dries up, these moths have nowhere to lay their eggs! You clearly havened thought the whole matter through and would trade in salvation for 20th century sensibilities. One of the strange things about all of the talk about whether punishment is eternal or not is the fact that if the Lord had wanted to communicate the idea that punishment would be eternal, there are several ways to do this in Greek and make it crystal clear. Even if I couldn't convince you, I am glad that you got something out of it. That the valley was just outside the city of Jerusalem made it an appropriate symbol for those excluded from divine blessing. So at that point there will be no more "aionian" life, it will be the same life as was lived in the "aion", but now it will continue outside of time. His funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. As for giving the 'damned' (an English word that has changed in meaning since being put in English bibles) their 'just desserts', in Jesus' day there were two common words for what we think of as "punishment". But that statement says nothing about God no longer being God after the ages. THE LAST ENEMY TO BE DESTROYED IS DEATH! (And note: it's a parable, a story with a lesson, not necessarily a description of actual conditions in the after-life, especially when you become too technical. Thanks for the article, I have always wanted to see some evidence for calling associating Gehenna with a burning trash heap. "For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, who despised the oath by breaking the covenant.". Though I believe you are talking to the Universalists in this post, there are times when "eternal" doesn't mean a duration of time. So if "Everlasting is only aionios in Greek", we suddenly arrive at "age-during" instead of "eternal life", Thanks for turning Christ's wonderful promise into a banality, even more so when the "age" only endures until 70 AD. One of the immediate problems of any hermeneutics about Gehenna is the religious . All of the trash, refuse, and dung from the city was dumped out there. And he mentions those who would go from where he himself was to the other side where the torment was FIRST. Not necessarily TO those in the fire, possibly TO OTHERS ABOUT THOSE in the fire if they are already in it, they don't need examples. Maybe you guys think you are as smart as our all knowing all seeing creator. From the reign of Josiah onward, it was used as a garbage dump where the fires burned the refuse continuously. Out of six major "seminaries" in the early church, four taught universal salvation, one taught annihilation (Ephesus)and one taught eternal punishment (Rome). Isa 66:2224 As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me, declares the LORD, so will your name and descendants endure. But of course, some know-it-all flippig through pages will know it better! Though the channels were probably used to drain rainwater from the towns, people also used them to dump human waste, garbage, and debris. Which brings us back to our starting point: it is eternal for good and bad or age-enduring for both, not this for one and that for another.]. Wild animals fought over scraps of food along the edges of the heap. But the old Jerusalem had a "dung gate", where the trash was taken out of the city. He quotes: Edward Robinson, preeminent explorer of the Holy Land beginning in 1838. And why should it? Lambs? A prophecy in his book that has thus far not come true should not be used to build doctrine on. We should rather shun them than let them damage our salvation. Hades, the Gray Waste of NE Gehenna, the Bleak Eternity of NE, LE The Nine Hells (of Baator) LE Acheron, the Infinite Battlefield of LN, LE Mechanus, the Clockwork Nirvana of LN Arcadia, the. In the context, it's a "causal" from (could even be translated as "by" as this Greek preposition is translated elsewhere in the NT) not a "spacial" from see 2 Thes. Even though the word "Gehenna" comes from the Valley of Hinnom, simply rendering it as "garbage dump" or "valley of waste disposal" or "burning garbage" could not be an accurate translations, because that's not what Jesus and the apostles meant when they used the word. Is that decree retroactive?". The Valley of Hinnom, named Gehenna in Greek, lies just outside the city of Jerusalem. Revelation 9:6 says, And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. Does no one know about the millennium, a period of teaching, after which satan is loosed for a season to test those that followed him in the first earth age. Then he mentions the case of those who would cross from the place of suffering over to "Abraham's bosom". It is not difficult to see, from these and other texts (e.g., 2 Kgs 23:10; 2 Chr 28:3, 33:6; Jer 32:35), why Jesus and his contemporaries used the word Gehenna (valley of Hinnom) as synonymous with the place of everlasting fiery torment. [What has that got to do with it. In order to do that, the person must be either present or at least given the opportunity. No council ever decreed whether someone was a "Christian". If ALL will be made alive than any passage referring to future punishment MUST be viewed in light of that fact. It is a reasonable deduction that there would be a dump and also reasonable that sometimes it would be alite and bodies throw there for shame. He got into trouble with a lot of people over many things, but one area of his teaching was never assailed by any church council and that was his teaching on universal salvation. And does the father disinherit the son after the latter has conquered and toiled for him. 9:28 or was that Is. Jesus used this term. Are you referring to Origen? It is not "people" who ingore context but you who are grasping at straws of literal nitpicking to justify your beliefs in the light of what Christ or others as recorded in Scripture clearly taught. I'm sure there will come forth a brilliant solution to this apparent contradiction that will make it disappear. Are there going to be new moons and sabbaths in eternity? It is retributive and vindictive. Because the church is not a "club for solving real and apparent biblical contradictions", it is not a "bible study club". But I doubt that it was "never condemned", it certainly was in Origen's case. Located at the midpoint of the Lower Planes, it was a plane of evil balanced between Law and Chaos. The Pharisees commonly used the phrase 'endless timoria', which has nothing to do with bettering the victim, but the punishment only has the satisfaction and honor of the offended party in mind. The rest of the world will not "suffers unimaginable torment for eternity" the world will be with God, whose judgement is just, even in regard to the damned. Where is the record of an uproar over them? "You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations, says the Lord. 20:10. Theres nothing before that. Outline of Biblical Usage [?] [.] Though only for a while, but of course his being rejected is not related to any universalist teaching (if he held such, which is not undisputed), which were not the issue in 381. It does not need to be quenched. You would think this would have been addressed early on if the case was clear cut and universal salvation was heresy. In Luke 16:26 Abraham explains why he can't send Lazarus to the rich man with a few drops of water. Why is there this belief that there is no redemption? Students may use the material on this site for school projects without permission. Paul turned a Christian over to satan for the DESTRUCTION OF THE FLESH. Jude says Sodom and Gomorrah undergo vengeance in "eternal fire", and Ezekiel says that Sodom and her daughters will one day be restored to their former estate. For all those who think that the 2 times eternal in Mat.25:46 must be the same is talking nonsense,in 5 other verses it also happens and in those it cannot be the same at all.Romans 16:25-26 and Titus 1:2 and Galatians 1:4-5 and Ephesians 3:9-11 and 1 Timothes 6:17-19 So how you explain that hell is pagan nonsense God is love!!! [I have no clue what v.15 you are talking about so you can spare us that.]. The valley was the scene of human sacrifices, burned in the worship of Moloch (2 Kings 16:3 and 21:6), which accounts for the prophecy of Jeremiah that it would be called the Valley of Slaughter under judgment of God (Jer. In times of war, decaying human flesh mingled with the rotting garbageimagine the vile vision. Arius was, Nestorius was, Eutyches was. Yesterday Louis McBride raised the issue (HT: BibleX). Thanks for the article! Thats the earliest reference we have to it- a Rabbi writing in the middle ages from Europe, not Israel, some 1100 years after Jesus was born. 1:7 where it says Jesus will be revealed from heaven in "blazing fire" and those who do not know God will be eternally destroyed by the fire of his presence, like how Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by eternal fire (p.s. When they fought, their teeth would make a gnashing sound. Ezekiel indeed prophesies that Sodom, Samaria and Juda would return to their former state. Hell, detail in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Dull Griet, 1561 . Much less towards others with "universalist" leanings. Are there going to be new moons and sabbaths in eternity? But, I agree, that Universalists play the "eternal is not always time" hand way too much! Residents sometimes called it the "valley of the sewer" or "the valley of the pagans." By Jesus' time, the Greek translation of Hinnom Valley, gehenna, became a synonym for hell. So just imagine the hundreds of thousands of squirmy, wormy maggots living there, eating the rotting refuse. In the other dozen or so, to get the idea of "eternal" you have to read it into the words "aion" and "aionian". And speaking of context, you are ignoring the context that Jesus is alluding to in this passage, and that is Isaiah 66:23-24. No matter how many times people say this and it has become street truth there is no evidence that there was a town dump outside Jerusalem in the first century. Still, because it seems like a reasonable explanation for the origin of the Hinnom Valley as "hell," commentators and preachers have accepted it. This gate in the southern part of the wall lead to the Hinnom Valley. They might as well say nothing on this issue. The second results in being in danger of the council, and the third results in danger of the fire of Gehenna. 1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. Todd, capital punishment also qualifies as eternal punishment. Most bibles that have copious cross-references for other verses with similarities like this strangely do not have any for this one.). Gehenna was not a perpetually burning trash dump." . Jerome also used the phrase "en aeturnum et ultra" ("in eternity and beyond") in his commantary on Collosians. This is the third entry in a three-part series deconstructing popular illustrations that pastors give their congregations, all of which might sound good or spiritual, but do not correspond to history or reality. "After the ages, there will be no need to describe Him to anyone because all will know Him fully, just as they also are known by Him now.". Most did not. But when the burning occured in such a valley, it left "dead bodies" for which the worms feasted on after the fire has destroyed them. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. I also find it hard to be confident in any council since they often allow someone to have a leading role who would be declared a heretic a short time later, like the case of Marcellus you brought up.There seemed to be a lot of see-sawing going on. Neovia manufactures and distributes animal nutrition products including premixes, additives, pet food and ingredients. I have no clue what v.15 you are talking about so you can spare us that. Gregory of Nyssa, another prominent teacher of universalism, drafted the part of the Nicean creed dealing with the trinity. This was a place where the fires were kept burning all the timenight and day. Explore the mistranslations and actual meanings of eternal and hell (aion, gehenna/hades/tartaroo/sheol). Eternal life doesn't mean that there is no time just as it doesn't mean there is no space. Though I vehemently disagree with you, I do not think your view stems from bad motives. What church are you talking about? It ensured total destruction. Mark 9:47 / Jeremiah 32:35. There was a fire there, burning constantly to consume the trash. It is part and parcel with the place that we normally call Hell. That wouldn't happen until the 6th century. And it is obviously contradicting the parable to consider what could happen after the feast for if the kingdom is like that feast and there would be an afterwards, it would no longer be eternal. Are there going to be new moons and sabbaths in eternity? There are a lot of things we need to be saved from at this point, but there will come a point when there will be nothing we need to be saved from. Even when the term "aionian" is applied to God Himself, this does not mean it is describing Him as eternal. Click the card to flip . The restoration of these cities is tied to the PEOPLE that lived there in 16:55. Now I know why I never found any. The doors were certainly locked as long as the wedding feast endures. The flies laid eggs on the surface of the dump. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D ) cosmology, used in the Planescape , Greyhawk , and some editions of . I thought, Anon, you didn't have time. He wrote: In these gardens, lying partly within the mouth of Hinnom and partly in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and irrigated by the waters of Siloam, Jerome assigns the place of Tophet; where the Jews practised the horrid rites of Baal and Moloch, and burned their sons and their daughters in the fire. It was probably in allusion to this detested and abominable fire, that the later Jews applied the name of this valley (Gehenna), to denote the place of future punishment or the fires of hell. He just told his audience that if there is part of your body that causes you to stumble, cut it off. Yes, wonderful promise. In Isaiah 30:33, it is referred to as Topheth, a horrible, fearsome place: "Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream . 'Valley of the son of Hinnom' [1]) is a historic valley surrounding Ancient Jerusalem from the west and southwest. 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell (Gehenna - garbage dump) fire.29) And if thy right eye . There is a emergent/universalist writer named Sharon Baker who has a book called Razing Hell. "Are you referring to Origen? Oh, and neither Gregory played any part at "Nicea", Nazianzen played a short role at Constantinople in 381. The purpose is to build your discernment when people say bibley things, and not let evangelical historical sound bites lead you to repeat them. All in all it points to a figurative description rather than a literal. Rubbish, bones, decaying. And why should it? Centuries later Gehenna had become the garbage dump of Jerusalem. Gehenna was a burning trash dump outside Jerusalem. Even if they are used to describe God as "the aionian God" they do not have to mean eternal. And just like all garbage dumps, there were worms. If that seems unfair in your eyes, so be it . "WHEN your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state. if you use the NIV version of the Bible the words "and shut out" are not in the Greek, rather just the preposition "from"). If you are a leader, want to be a leader, or can spell the word leader, this message is for you. The rest of the chapter goes on to reassure Israel that they will not all be killed in this judgment. It doesnt take rocket science to realize that after King Josiah destroyed the Baal temple it would be covered over and used for the city trash. Does that make the Bible false? There is BTW no clear verse saying that the kingdom would have an end, many things that speak against it. About the other direction he didn't ask. The Gray Waste of Hades, also known as the Gray Waste, was an Outer Plane in the Great Wheel cosmology model, home of the daemons. There is no biblical support for this, neither is there any literary sources or archaeological data from the intertestamental or rabbinic periods to suggest this. When death is destroyed the only thing left is life. Dig down into and youll find evidence if garbage, followed by a ruined temple and burnt child sacrifices. On this issue of thousands of squirmy, wormy maggots living there, EATING the refuse. 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