Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus - David Bentley Hart

David Bentley Hart, author of That All Shall Be Saved, talks about the different words that are often translated as "hell".

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[DIBBY]

If only I had known this back in the 1980s as a Christian! I left christianity in no small part because of hell doctrine. I found it repulsive. I did have an experience of the Love of God as a Christian and I remember absolutely knowing that the love I felt would in no way send anyone to such a place! But I was confused; the church was telling me something different. I was not strong enough at the time to risk being ostracised for heresy. So I left about 1 year later. Fast forward over 30years and I am slowly returning...

[jackshadow]

In the Cambodian (Khmer) translation of the N.T., Gehenna is translated with the Buddhist word (and thus concept) for hell. It's interesting how the translators insist on using words that are not actually in the original text. Is it blind tradition? Is it laziness?

[Mrm]

Sheol seems to signify death in the OT.

[paulmelonas]

If memory serves me the rich man and Lazarus are separated by a great chasm. The rich man was in a place of torment and Lazarus wasn't.

[icarus]

Is this available as a transcript somewhere? Unfortunately the tone affects me badly in a sensory way.

[KeithGiles]

The background tone is giving me a headache.

[EasternRomeOrthodoxy]

🇷🇺☦️🤝☪️🇵🇸David Bentley Hart is a heretic & doesn't even master the Hebrew as we do. None of the Church fathers & saints ever claimed absolute Universalism as Origen the pantheist heretic who said parts of Bible are allegories did, they only believed in the correct view, whereas Hades was a transitional station for the judgement of God, whereas some would be moved to heaven & some would either stay in hades (sheol), which is a subterranean space – the Earth's mantle (as taught us the holy Tertullian), which in turn leads to hell/lake of fire – the Earth's core, where only God's SELECTED souls are saved by His grace & the others forever damned (so God didn't even create "a hell", only allowed Satan, His agent for testing man, to use Earth's inner core for that purpose)
Fr. Rooney is 100% correct, and as an eastern Roman Orthodox, I am so ashamed of heretics like Hart & all those modern academics, who corrupt our teachings, saying that God's will & creation are necessaries to Him & reject the concepts of mortal sin & justice. With their logic, even Hitler is saved. Yes, what a "good" just god they're believing in, those twisted wiseguys..🤦God bless Fr. Dominic for exposing their heretical deception!🙏❤️