Describe Sheol? Describe Paradise??
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This is a pretty difficult question to answer.  \n\nAt death the body and soul are separated.  Those who will spend eternity in Hell seem to go to a type of waiting area.  Those who will spend eternity go to a similar waiting area - called Abraham's bosom at times - also called paradise.\n\nUpon the return of Jesus we will be given a body once again (the final resurrection) and the Sheep will spend eternity with God and the goats will spend eternity in Hell.
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actually, milton's hell in paradise lost is seductive, along with lucifer who is suave and persuasive in leading mortals to damn their souls. because on the outside, hell tempts souls with lust, greed and other sins, milton's hell symbolizes the outlying seductiveness of sin vs the ultimate internal suffering as a consequence of evil.
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Given the terrain (Eden is placed more or less in Iraq by its description) the most likely candidate, if we're assuming the tree of knowledge of good and evil is a plant analogous to a modern extant species, would have been a date, fig or a pomegranate. :-)
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That's beautiful, the analogies I  mean.\n\nIt depends on the moods-hers and mine-\nfor a quickie, like fire.\nAnd phases during a night of... ahem...debauchery\nStarters -------- Wind - powerful and unstoppable (until the first release) \nThe next round ----- Water - smooth and sultry, both so wet and willing to try more.\nEnding (maybe early morning) earth-grounded and firm, know that we have to get up in some time.\nst
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haha i wana kno. aLSO!!! i love dhat song!! emy and max knew what to do .. dey climed on da back str-8 to dragon land.. NOW DA ADVENTURE NEVA ENDZ!!
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Temporary life on a corrupt world vs eternity in paradise? I'll take eternal life thanks.
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Myth. What someone would call their Paradise!
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how fun is a place called hell!!pretty small though~i wonder where heaven is~they must be packed!
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Once again:\n\n The idea of an eternity spent in the flaming fires of an eternal lake of burning sulfer is NOT of the Bible. That is a Catholic discription of hell. \n\nHell is an anglo-saxon word that means "hole" or "to hide". Hel is also the name of the Norse god, not very liked, of the underworld.Where did we get our modern day version of Hell? Return to the 13th century, to the Roman Catholic Church right before the Reformation, to the period of time called the Romantics or Middle Ages where if you were to be anyone in the vicinty of Europe you must be occupied by music, art, poetics, politics, religion or science or some such other endeavor. Dante Alighieri wrote Inferno, published in the year 1300 and as depicted by many artists is the source for our main visual concept of a place that contains all of the souls of the damned that burn for eternity. However, scripture will prove that this is a man made concept.\n\nEncarta: \n\n1. place of punishment after death: according to many religions, the place where the souls of people who are damned suffer eternal punishment after death\n2. devilish power: according to some religions, Satan or the powers of evil that live in hell\n3. underworld: according to some religions, the place where the spirits of all people go after death\n4. suffering: a state or place of extreme pain or misery, or something or somebody that causes extreme pain or misery\n\nHell as translated from the Hebrew word for Sheol: It is used about 65 times yet even the King James Version of the Bible translates this word 31 of these times to mean grave or pit. Sheol literally means to "go down" or be "brought down" as in to be laid low and then covered over and has been used to describe darkness, depths, in the waves of a flood, the deep, the abyss and is used to describe the furtherest place from heaven. In effect it is death. It is also a place of permenance. That is until, of course, Christ concured the grave and rose for us.The three Greek words that are often translated from Sheol are Hades (Hades was a greek god of the underworld and completely pagan), Gehenna (means place of burning and was a literal place, a garbage dump in the Hinnom Valley, a ravine right outside of Jerusalem where at one time pagan gods had been worshipped) and Tartaroo (this is the origin of the Latin term for torture or torment, yet used one time in scripture in 2 Peter 2:4 to describe a subterrainian (sp?) place, dark and deep, but this one time in scripture specifically as a place to put rebellious angels or demons ie...the pit which is where demons fear to go as was stated at the confrontation of Christ with the "legion" of demons Matt 8:29-32 KJV cuz I would imagine that once you go there you don't get to come back out). It might be difficult to fathom but...we as Christians must go back to Christs time and transend the falacies handed to us by our forefathers in the early church...why? Because these lies detract from the Glory of Christ Jesus and blind us to the truth of the Scriptures so that we form scales on our eyelids so as not to see that our God is not a God that would torture and punish for eternity for crimes of selfishness, waste and wickedness in finite world. It is not just. However, the single punishment will be for those that are lost...those that have been ensnared to be resurrected to live again on Judgement day and recieve the wages of sin...death. The absense of life. They will cease to exist. "Be gone from me.."He will say.."I never knew you." To those that have been called and answered...they will hear "Well done, my good and faithful servant." I hope and pray that I'm worthy to hear these words on that day. Yet my Hope is in Him.Love in Christ, Jana ;0) <>< \n\nP.S. to continue real quick lets define death according to the Bible...\n\nof sin and death.\n\nFaith,\n\nper•ish [ pérrish ] \n\nintransitive verb
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SOMETIMES HEAVEN. SOMETIMES HELL. SOMETIMES JUST IN BETWEEN.\n\nBROKEN--HEARTED.
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Edge of Heaven\n\nWHAM!
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i can say to u thatz my best Poem...\nand the count.. of it is:\n\nBeware the fantasy that speaks,\nThe vague ideal that springs a soul.\nNo marriage can avoid the shoal\nThat lies beneath such sun-drenched peaks.\nNo love but may retreat to stone\nAs sirens sad the heart entice.\nTwo names entwine in paradise\nWhile here two lovers lie alone.
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What is Hell ? what is a stay? and what are friends? who are you? i thought u already took the journey to Hell?..What are u doing here? Oh noooooooooo if u took the journey to Hell..then....then...this must be HELLL AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!
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There are no "gates of heaven" ye blasphemer! Only the volcano of sauce and the noodles from the FSM! How dare ye talk such nonsense of a "heaven"!!\n\nRAmen brotha :-)\n\n():-D\nshadowgirl
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SINCE “HELL” MEANS THE “GRAVE” \n\nWebster’s Dictionary says that the English word “hell” is equal to the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades.\n\nEnglish translators of the Authorized Version, or King James Version, translated Sheol 31 times as “hell,” 31 times as “grave,” and 3 times as “pit.” The Catholic Douay Version translated Sheol 64 times as “hell.” In the Christian Greek Scriptures  “New Testament”, the King James Version translated Hades as “hell” each of the 10 times it occurs..\n\nThe question is: What kind of place is Sheol, or Hades? The fact that the King James Version translates the one Hebrew word Sheol three different ways shows that hell, grave and pit mean one and the same thing. And if hell means the common grave of mankind, it could not at the same time mean a place of fiery torture. Well, then, do Sheol and Hades mean the grave, or do they mean a place of torture?\n\nActs 2:31 uses Hades. Notice, too, that Jesus Christ was in Hades, or hell. Are we to believe that God tormented Christ in a hell of fire? Of course not! Jesus was simply in his grave.\n\nGood people go to the Bible hell. For example, the good man Job, who was suffering a great deal, prayed to God: “O that in Sheol [grave, King James Version; hell, Douay Version] you would conceal me, . . . that you would set a time limit for me and remember me!” (Job 14:13) Now think: If Sheol means a place of fire and torment, would Job wish to go and spend his time there until God remembered him? Clearly, Job wanted to die and go to the grave that his sufferings might end.\n\nIn all the places where Sheol occurs in the Bible it is never associated with life, activity or torment. Rather, it is often linked with death and inactivity. For example, think about Ecclesiastes 9:10, which reads: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [grave, King James Version; hell, Douay Version], the place to which you are going.” So the answer becomes very clear. Sheol and Hades refer not to a place of torment but to the common grave of mankind. (Psalm 139:8) Good people as well as bad people go to the Bible hell.\n\nCan people get out of hell? What did Jonah mean by “out of the belly of hell”? Well, that fish’s belly was surely not a place of fiery torment. But it could have become Jonah’s grave.
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Is this it?\n\nJill Bioskop: [Jill reciting in French] Moreover, it matters not that we discuss it... of your eyes, your green eyes. Lakes of my soul tremble and vice versa. My dreams in form of insanity... To soothe those bitter commotions.\nNikopol: [Nikopol finishing Jill's recitation in English] But all that it is not worth of prodigy of your saliva, Jill. It bites my soul, and it dizzies and swirls it down, remorselessly. Rolling it, fainting to the underworld.