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Jan 23, 2018 · Among the Gehenna references in the Gospels, it is important to recognize that there is a unique emphasis on the body. In Matthew 5:22, Jesus draws on the OT context of a murderer receiving a death sentence in court when he speaks of the wicked being “in danger of the fire of Gehenna.”
The Bible asserts, however, that Sheol is under God’s power and that He would rescue the righteous from it (1 Sam. 2:6; Hos. 13:14). God’s radical solution to the problem of the righteous in Sheol is not some blissful afterlife but the future hope of physical resurrection (Isa. 26:19; Dan. 12:2).
The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible further points out that six different words occur in the Hebrew OT to describe the abode of the dead, namely: 1) תחַשָׁ – ditch or pit, Job 33:18; 2) רוֹב – the pit, Ps. 28:1; 3)
Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. The Son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
Some consider Gehenna, the valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem, to have been an ancient dump where rubbish was thrown and where a fire was kept burning to consume it, giving rise to concepts of everlasting fire.
Fire imagery is attributed primarily to Gehenna, which is most commonly mentioned as Gehenna the Fiery (Геенна огненная), and appears to be synonymous to the lake of fire. The New World Translation , used by Jehovah's Witnesses , maintains a distinction between Gehenna and Hades by transliterating Gehenna, and by rendering "Hades ...
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supreme god in the beginning was Ouranos (or Uranus), a name that simply meant ‘Heaven’. He was married to Gaia (‘Earth’), at a time when there was no divorce between the domains: the God of heaven lived on earth.
