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What's hell like? What's it for?
What if there were no hell?
1 John 4:18, do we focus on fear or love?
Greek, Hebrew, and English terms
Sheol/Hades - the place of the dead (NOT hell)
Gehenna/corr

• Only 12 occurrences (really 6)
• Valley of the Sons of Hinnom, place of child sacrifice (2 Chronicles 28:3)
• Place of judgment by Babylon (Jeremiah 7:31-32)
• Jesus' use mirrors Jeremiah, with coming Roman destruction
• Brad Jersak, Her Gates Will Never Be Shut

Meaning of 'aionios' - eternal?

• How long it lasts or qualities of Age to come?
• Hebrews 9:12 & 2 Thessalonians 1:9
• Happens once and endures

Hell as Destruction

• Edward Fudge, The Fire That Consumes
• John 3:16 - what it plainly says and how it's interpreted
• Matthew 10:28; Romans 2:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3; Galatians 6:8 - destroyed/perish/corruption
• Implies destruction that endures, not ongoing torture
• Plato vs. Paul
• Is destruction not bad enough?