What Does the Bible Teach About Hell? Would a God of Love Torture People in Fire? – ? ??

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What Does the Bible Teach About Hell? Would a God of Love Torture People in Fire? ? ??

Turning to the book of Genesis, we read about the creation of the earth, seas, fish, animals and even the sun and the moon. Yet nowhere do we read about GodÂ’s creating a special underworld compartment for the broiling torment of man. Like a BBQ. ???

It seems strange that, if he made one, God did not have recorded in the Bible the creation of such an important place as a burning hell. Yet suppose he did make one. Would not Jehovah’s love and justice have moved him to warn Adam of the full penalty of sin? Jehovah told Adam the consequence of sin was death. Are we really to think that, after Adam sinned, Jehovah changed his mind about the death sentence and decided to give Adam the torture treatment? The Bible answers: “I, Jehovah, change not.”—Mal. 3:6, AS.

But does not “hell” appear in the Hebrew Scriptures? Yes. So let us do the logical thing and pry into the background of that word “hell.” Webster’s unabridged dictionary tells us that hell corresponds to the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades.

It also says that hell comes from the English word helan, meaning “to conceal.” So we have found that the early meaning of the word “hell” carried no thought of any kind of heat. It merely meant “concealed.
We have found, too, that the original Hebrew word, usually translated “hell” in English Bibles, is Sheol.

Now,what does Sheol mean? It simply means “a hollow place.” So the original Hebrew word perfectly corresponds with the original or early meaning of the English word “hell.”
Now that the clergy have put fire into the word “hell,” the vital question is, Did the inspired Hebrew Bible writers say that conscious life and red-hot activity exist in Sheol or hell?
No, quite the opposite! Instead of blazing fire, it is described as a “land of darkness.” (Job 10:21)

Instead of a place of soul-chilling shrieks, it is described as a place of “silence.” (Ps. 115:17)

The Catholic Douay Bible, at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, says: “The living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more. Neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge, shall be in hell [Sheol, AS], whither thou art hastening.” So, since the “dead know nothing more,”

Or as the King James Version says, “the dead know not any thing,” it would be impossible for them to know conscious torment. And since there is no work in hell, how can there be activity, red-hot or otherwise?
So HELL is the common Grave of man. And the Devil and his Demons are spirits, FIRE has no effect on them as they are not fleshly.

But Jehovah God can make then totally inactive as dead. As he promise to do so in Revelation 20:1-3 he will be bound for a 1000's years and after that?

(Rev.20:10") – And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulfur, where both the wild the false prophet all ready WERE."Now please drop down to verse 14, what is the LAKE of FIRE?

"The second death where there is no return, in the case of these demons total destruction. As Revelations was written in signs. Even DEATH and the Grave were put in it right? What is death and the grave? CONDITIONS! not objects you can burn.

Here is a link that will help. https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102015146#h=23:0-23:438
Sincerely Lee. Thank you for your post