'Hell' or Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus?—Robin Parry

The Hebrew and Greek words "Sheol", "Hades", "Gehenna", and "Tartarus" get translated as "Hell" in some translations of the Bible. Robin explains the background of each of these words and the significant differences between them.

[JainaSoloB]

Fantastic analysis of these concepts! I would love more short-form videos like this on specific topics

[sgt]

Actually, that's the clearest exposition of these concepts I have come across so far.

[racheladkins]

I’m trying to get clear on this, and I’ve been a Christian since 1988. I’m bothered by pagan and Greek pagan things. Gehenna is a park now, in Jerusalem .

[AChippendale]

Yes that was very helpful! Thank you for your ministry.

[doodle]

this video is a perfect summation of these terms. Love it.

[gregzoller]

Excellent summation, including the lack of clarity we have. One interpretation of Sheol/Hades I've heard is that as a "place of the dead" it is divided into two realms separated by an impassible chasm (from the parable). One side is suffering and the other is pleasant, Paradise, as in when Jesus told the thief "Today you will be with me in Paradise". It also says Jesus descended into Sheol, so perhaps they both went to the Paradise side of Sheol. Don't know--but it does fit the narrative.

[youngknowledgeseeker]

Interesting. "Biblical Unitarians" suggest that, scripturally, Sheol/Hades would be the unconscious state of death. The "grave" and the metaphorical holding place of the dead before the judgement.

Gehenna would be the actual place one is sentenced to in the judgement ("the fire prepared for the devil and his Angels").

Tartarus would be a holding place, possibly conscious, of the Watchers from Enoch until the judgement.

There are outlier texts of course that may suggest there is or can be some sort of consciousness after death before the judgement (and/or rewards or punishments). For example, the story of Saul and the Witch of Endor. The (parable?) of the Rich Man and Lazarus. The vision of Moses and Elijah seen at the Mt. of Transfigutation.

There is of course also the fact that since the 2nd Temple period and onwards, at least, Jewish culture had taken on and developed competing views of a conscious state after death alongside their idea of a sleeplike state of death.

[IsraelSuperguide]

Luke 16 it isn't a parable... hell is a wrong translation of the original of Gehena.

[dalecampbell]

So according to mainstream Christianity, lost humans are burned in "hell " for eternity, but the fallen angels (watchers) are placed in Tartarus, a prison of outer darkness and wait for judgment.???
Only man and his religions can take the gospel and turn it into a horror story.

[racheladkins]

“It’s not terribly clear” This isn’t Helping me.

[olympics]

Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 and Psalms 146:4 shows one could not be conscious in death

[maruscatarabella]

All those passagges are so contradicting and sensless, why keep spirits, angels and souls in such places, if they are doomed to everlasting torment until the day of judgment if there isn't a chance to be saved?

[jcdstorm]

Totally wrong!!!! Sheol is Hades and the grave! This is where all dead humans reside until judgement. They are asleep. Nothing complicated

[sosyalsorumluluk]

All I got from the vid is that ' None of these notions are concrete '

[kellydavid]

Jesus the messiah will save all!!

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;
that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,
and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Phil 2:9

[masaguitv]

Hell is the place of the punishment.

Hades is the place of the Souls does people death.

[racheladkins]

I was looking for clarity as to what happens for real. All we have is pagan mythology mixed up into things. How can we give clear answers to people when theologians are in a mess about it. What are we saved from?

[tommywarren]

Hades doesn't exist anymore it was cast into the lake of fire

[dcw]

As you say, "that was not helpful... was it". No. It was not. Not at all, and quite full of errors.

Gehennam was a place where certain peoples sacrificed babies, as in infants. Yes, it is now a park in Jerusalem.. It was not always a park. It was at one time a place where pagans took their new born babies and offered them to Molech on a bronze statue. The statue was heated with wood or charcoal, and was red hot. People actually placed their babies either on the hands of the false god, or in a receptacle of a bronze casting that was heated to searing heat, and let the babies scream and writhe in pain until they died. Jeremiah tells about this in chap 7 of his book in the Old (First) Testament. In that book I think it is called Hinnon rather than Gehenna. (Same place, different spelling.) Same horrible place of human sacrifice, which God Almighty our Father found detestable.

[Paul]

Jegaysus says hell does not exist on TikTok but the more I watch those videos of his the more I feel skeptical about his teachings but when I encountered this video on YouTube the more I know the reality of hell being a thing that existed.