Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus, the Lake of Fire, and the Bottomless Pit – Explained



There are more than one Greek words that are translated “hell” in the Bible. What do these words mean? Are there several locations that can be referred to as “hell?” If so, which one is the permanent place of judgement?

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10 thoughts on “Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus, the Lake of Fire, and the Bottomless Pit – Explained”

  1. Great video thank you for your content. A while back I asked you if you can do an "is it biblical" on one of my favorite all-time Jesus movies Jesus of Nazareth. You said you would I would just have to remind you after you did the chosen series. I know you're busy, I saw your live, saying that you're now a pastor of a church hopefully you can find some time to do a video or two on it. I really think it's a good movie I know it doesn't exactly go word-for-word with the Bible but I think they did a good job with it it's supposed to be dramatic almost Shakespearean and the way they film the movie I think was really cool how a lot of the camera shots are almost like paintings or still photos. It's older I believe it's from the 70s but some of the shots almost look like a Middle Ages painting. Hopefully you would enjoy it and do an episode on it soon

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  2. Awesome video! I have a special request: Can you do a video on Paul replacing Judas as the twelfth apostle? I’ve heard theories on that and I would love to know your stance on it…

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  3. If the hell is a place of eternal consciousness of torment , doesn't it mean that the sinners also have eternal life just like the righteous , even though it is in hell … How this reconciled with the verse of Roman 6:23 which says : For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord ? Death is opposite of eternal life , whatever eternal life might be look like … In John 3:16 it is written : For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life….. Does the word " perish: here mean to be an eternal consciuousness of torment in hell ?

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  4. Can we dispense with the caricatures of Hell? Thumbnails of vapory, shadowy figures writhing in literal flames of fire? Do we realize that the lake of fire, though certainly real and terrifying, nevertheless is not a literal lake of fire, but is spiritual? And this does not make it any less foreboding, but should we not be above the heathen in our communication of these ideas? Be holy, as he is holy. The use of crude images is the way of heathens, is it not? But the spiritual man compares spiritual things with spiritual, that is, by both the written word, and by the spirit's revelation of the word, not with crude dead images.

    And to your question, that even if the fire language used in the scriptures to refer to final punishment is figurative, what else would it be figurative of, besides agony and torment–I think it does involve agony and torment; but would it not be equally true that fire, used in a symbolic sense, would most immediately denote the consuming of something, perhaps even more than it denotes pain? Because that's what fire does. It consumes. Hence the title of annihilationist author Edward Fudge's book, "The Fire that Consumes." We are interpreting scripture through a preconceived theological lens when we conclude that fire "obviously" refers to unending torment. To an ancient, new testament era individual, who has no catechism, no church councils, but only the old testament, which has very little descriptions of the afterlife, and the freshly spoken gospels–would not fire more immediately evoke the concept of burning something into ash and dust, i.e. to oblivion? There is nothing intrinsically eternal about fire, either in what it does or its product.

    I do not think this is the only ground on which we determine the duration of the final punishment of the wicked, but it certainly is a common sense observation when examining the language of fire employed by Jesus and the apostles in speaking of final punishment, and should not be ignored.

    For my part, I believe the most accurate description of the final punishment of the wicked is "outer darkness;" God is light, and the complete, conscious separation from God's presence is outer darkness, and this concept alone strikes fear and terror into my heart, more than the concept of physical agony and pain; not that agony and pain doesn't scare me; but there are much worse things than physical pain. Like spiritual separation from God…

    Peace and mercy to you brother.

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  5. "In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred, he found no peace; and with boiling blood, he scoured the umbral plains seeking vengeance against the Dark Lords who had wronged him. He wore the crown of the Night Sentinels, and those that tasted the bite of his sword named him…THE DOOM SLAYER."

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  6. I always envisioned the bottomless pit like this….the valley that seperated hades from paradise is a valve or opening. It leads to an figure 8 or infinity symbol shaped tube of sorts. Guess it could be any shape but id imagine the symbol got its meaning from somewhere. This is where the fallen angels are endlessly cycling around and around till judgement

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