Relevant Verses: Rev. 6:19-11; 1 Peter 3:13-20; Phil. 1:21-24; Luke 16:19-31; John 3:16

Leading Question: “Typically Seventh-day Adventists do not believe in an eternally burning hell, yet they do believe in hell. What’s the difference?”

Comment: From a biblical point of view, the word hell either translates as the word grave or sheol. In the Old Testament everyone who died went down to sheol. That’s the “cold” hell. The dead are gathered to their fathers in this cold hell of Sheol. They are cut off from God and very everything living.

In the New Testament the “hot” hell is depicted as a lake ...