Soapy
Son of his Father: The Heir and Prince
I agree.The Hebrew word Sheol = The Greek word Hades=Hell. Its just the grave.
God is not a sadist who tortures one forever for 70-100 years of a sinful life. He is a God of justice. Many do not seem to understand that. His justice scales are in perfect balance, uncorruptable. If it goes any way its for mercy and love. Not the sadist being taught by those that do not know him.
The Hebrews knew Sheol was the grave.
My point was that, for instance, king David poetically envisioned being in the state of death as being tortured … devoid of an existence in the living world.
The spirit, he put to his words, yearns for a body to act through in the living world. The grave, Sheol, is like a torture chamber in respect of the spirit being chained away from activation.
Of course, he was borrowing a mythological term from pagan belief to put his point across. I don’t say he was was claiming a belief in the pagan ‘Sheol’ in which bodies of the dead (were living in a dead state!!) were tortured eternally by the very Father of them whom were in ‘Sheol’.
I pointed out that it didn’t make sense that a Father, not even of the lie, would torture those of his children who were doing exactly what he taught them to do…
- “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” (Eccl 9:10)
How is there activity among those who know nothing, think nothing, nor can do anything?
No! Eccl 9:5 already said it:
- “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.”
- “And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” (Eccl 12:7)
- “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.”
On death, the spirit returns to God and the body decays due to having nothing to maintain it.
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