WHAT IS HELL?

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. What is Hell?

a) Jesus actually spoke more about hell than He ever did about heaven.  Jesus spoke about hell as a literal place of torment that is never ending.  What are the different types of hell that are mentioned in the Bible?  Some believe that there are different levels of hell where suffering is worse than other levels.  To a degree, the torment someone will suffer in hell is determined by the works of the unsaved person.  One of the hell mentioned in the Old Testament and New is the grave itself. 

b) The word “hell” is actually an old English word that originally meant just a hole in the ground and can be thought of as a grave.  The English used to keep their potatoes in “hell” or in the ground cellar that they used for storing them.  The term hell can also mean a place of the deceased or dead and merely described the abode of the dead. Since Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven, we know that this place must be real and that there are also different degrees of punishment and torment in hell.

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