(12-08-2024, 03:50 PM)DISRAELI Wrote: The Bible actually gives us no details at all about heaven and hell, so it isn't possible to say anything specific about them.
Jesus says only that some people will be present at "the heavenly banquet", and others won't.
Paul says to the Thessalonians "So we shall be evermore with the Lord", but others evidently won't be.
That is all.
I was going to look into the actual Bible verses that describe heaven and hell next. There is some confusion about hell, the lake of fire, and the pit. I have to go through and see what I can determine about those, but I suspect they are three different things.
I'll get back in a little bit, thanks.
Just cursory, but the lake of fire most fits the popular description of hell and the bottomless pit more of a holding cell. However, many references to hell seem to refer to a condition rather than a place as in these others.
I find this verse in Peter to be interesting . . .
Quote:2 Peter 2:4 KJV
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
So, fallen angels were cast "down to" hell before Peter said this, and Revelation states that Satan and the fallen angels were cast down to Earth, something I believed happened seven years ago. So, hell is Earth in this statement, something I found implied in a couple other verses. This verse does seem to equate hell and the bottomless pit that will keep the devil in chains. It may not be accurate in its translation.
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