Immortality or Resurrection by William West (philippa perry book txt) 📕

fit the Catholic or Protestant versions of Hell for if all go to sheol at death, no one could go to Heaven or Hell at death. The Hebrews believed that all, both good and evil together went to sheol [the grave] when they died. Examples: "You shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave" [Genesis 37:35; 42:38; 44:29]. "O that you would hide me in the grave" [Job 14:13]. Not one of the sixty-five times "sheol" is used does it teach the Protestant version of Hell.
"Nowhere in the Old Testament is the abode of the dead regarded as a place of punishment or torment. The concept of an infernal 'hell' developed in Israel only during the Hellenistic period" The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Page 788.
[3] ACCORDING TO MOST PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS: Everyone will be in Heaven or Hell at death. Not all together in sheol. Many Protestants put all, even everyone that lived under the Old Testament in Heaven or Hell at death. IF THE “SOUL” OF ALL GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL AT DEATH, NO “SOUL” HAD EVER BEEN IN SHEOL OR ABRAHAM’S BOSOM OR EVER WILL BE. There would be no time when they could be. All the passages in the King James Version where the translators translated sheol sometimes grave and sometimes Hell would be worse than meaningless; they would be untruthful, for the King James Version puts ALL, both the good and the evil together, sometimes ALL together in the grave and sometimes it puts ALL together in Hell. Sheol is translated "down to the grave" one time and "down to hell" two times in the same passage [Ezekiel 31:15-17]. Why such inconsistency? The Septuagint, a Greek version of the Old Testament made in the third century B. C. translated the Hebrew "sheol" into Greek "hades." These Hebrew scholars put all (both the righteous and the unrighteous) together in hades just as both are together in sheol in the Hebrew Old Testament. Did the King James translators know more about the Hebrew language than the Hebrews? Why did they tell God He was wrong when He put both together in one place - sheol? The reason is obvious; they had to put some in Hell. They did a poor job of it for by their mistranslating they put some of those in sheol in Hell, but could not put some in Heaven. They had to leave them in sheol where God put them for they could not translate sheol into Heaven in any passages.
[4] ACCORDING TO MANY PROTESTANTS: All return to God in Heaven at death, both the saved and the lost. At death the spirit of all "will return to God who gave it" [Ecclesiastes 12:7]. If the spirit or the soul is the only part(s) of a person that lives after the death of the body and "The spirit returns to God who gives it" then the soul never goes to sheol or hades; therefore, if there were a place under the earth called "sheol" no person ever goes to it. Sheol could not be the receptacle or the place of abode of disembodied spirits if the spirit returns to God in Heaven at death. NONE COULD BE IN HELL IF AT DEATH ALL RETURN TO GOD IN HEAVEN. Today's theology repeatedly makes the Bible speak of a place that does not exist. Nevertheless, we are repeatedly told the saved go to Heaven at death and the lost go to Hell at death. The same preachers put the dead in three places simultaneously.
1. The spirit of all returns to God.
2. The dead are in sheol which is believed by many to be somewhere under the earth.
3. The soul of the saved go directly to Heaven at death and the soul of the lost go directly to Hell at death.
[5] ACCORDING TO THE ABRAHAM'S BOSOM VERSION: Nor can sheol be made to fit the after judgment view. No one will be in Heaven or Hell at death, not unto after the resurrection and judgment. In this view Hell is a place where only the evil will go only after the judgment, but no one will be in Hell unto after the judgment, and no one in the Old Testament times was in Hell before or after his or her death. Therefore, if sheol were Hell, none would go directly to it at death, therefore, no one in the Old Testament could have gone to sheol at death. But, even when it is completely contradictory to their view, most that believe the after judgment version of Hell use the mistranslation of sheol into Hell in the Old Testament of the King James Version to prove there is a Hell and that some were in it even in the Old Testament times. Can they not see how inconsistent they are being with their own view?
It seems as if no one today believes what the Old Testament says about sheol. Not even the translators of the King James Version; they believed as most Protestants of their time did that all the lost are in Hell and all the saved are in Heaven, therefore, no one was in a place called sheol.
[6] ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE: In both the Old Testament and the New Testament the dead are all asleep and will be asleep unto the Resurrection.
[2] HADES in the New Testament
Hades is the same word in Greek as sheol is in Hebrew [Psalms 16:10-Acts 2:27]. It is used eleven times and mistranslated “Hell” in the King James Version; it is not translated but transliterated (English letters used in place of Greek letters) just as sheol is transliterated in the Old Testament in many translations.
The way hades is mistranslated or transliterated in eight translations
| RSV | |REVISED |AMERICAN
KJV| NKJV | ASV | NIV |PHILLIPS|ENGLISH B| BIBLE
MATT 11:23| HELL| HADES| HADES| DEPTHS| DEAD | HADES | DEATH
MATT 16:18| HELL| HADES| HADES| HADES | DEATH | DEATH | DEATH
LUKE 10:15| HELL| HADES| HADES| DEPTHS| DEAD | HADES | DEATH
LUKE 16:23| HELL| HADES| HADES| HELL | DEAD | HADES | DEAD
ACTS 2:27 | HELL| HADES| HADES| GRAVE | HADES | DEATH |NETHER WORLD
ACTS 2:31 | HELL| HADES| HADES| GRAVE | HADES | DEATH |NETHER WORLD
1 COR15:55|GRAVE| HADES| DEATH| DEATH | DEATH | DEATH | DEATH
REV 1:18 | HELL| HADES| HADES| GRAVE | GRAVE | HADES |NETHER WORLD
REV 6:8 | HELL| HADES| HADES| HADES | GRAVE | HADES |NETHER WORLD
REV 20:13 | HELL| HADES| HADES| HADES | GRAVE | HADES |NETHER WORLD
REV 20:14 | HELL| HADES| HADES| HADES | GRAVE | HADES |NETHER WORLD
The way hades is translated or not translated (transliterated) in five translations. NOT EVEN THE NEW KING JAMES WOULD GO ALONG KING JAMES WITH THIS BAD TRANSLATION OF TRANSLATING "HADES" INTO HELL. Even in 1 Corinthians 15:55 where the King James translated it grave, the New King James transliterated it hades.
| HELL | GRAVE | DEATH | TRANSLITERATED
KING JAMES VERSION | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0
NEW KING JAMES VERSION | 0 | 0 | O | 11
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10
REVISED STANDARD VERSION | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |DEPTHS 2 |
The translators believed in Hell, but could not get away from grave every time. The one time the King James translators did not try to put their Hell into the Bible; they translated it grave. If they had translated hades into Hell in 1 Corinthians 15:55 as they did in the other ten passages, It would have said, "O Hell, were is your victory?" They had to change "Hell" to "grave" because it is obvious that Paul is speaking of victory over death, not victory over Hell.
The New American Bible (Catholic) removed Hell but added a new place, the Nether World that is neither a translation nor a transliteration but a change of one place into another place despite the fact that in their earlier translation they changed hades into Hell.
• In the same passage in some translations Catholics put the dead in “Hell.”
• Then in the same passage in other translations put the dead in “The Nether World.”
They changed hades into two altogether differ places.
In the New Testament there are only two words the translators did not want to or would not translate into English words, therefore they transliterated them (translated the letters of the Greek alphabet into English letters). They are baptizo (immersion) and hades (grave). Baptizo, if translated into English would be "immersion," which would not have fit into the theology of the King James translators. Many uphold and even use the mistranslation of hades into “Hell” in the King James Version, and the non-translation in the American Standard Version of both hades and sheol. Both are common nouns, which some use as if they were proper nouns [names of particular place] to have a biblical name for their non-biblical place. If any other word were put into the Bible, as was the word Hell, there would have been sermon after sermon and articles after articles showing it was a mistranslation, just as there has been on baptism. Although the translators of the New International Version believed in Hell, they were honest enough to translate sheol correctly but would not translate hades in four of the eleven times it is used. In many translations the Greek word hades was put into many English versions with out translating it for if it had been translated it would not fit with the belief of the translators, or the belief of many they wanted to sell it to; but there is a correct translation, and even the King James Version had to translate it correctly part of the time. They do not want to translate hades, for them it would not say what they want it to say, therefore, the Greek word hades is either mistranslated into Hell in the King James; or is left untranslated in many others. They want "hades" to be the only Greek word in the New Testament that cannot be translated into English. Why? The problem was made because the translators did not want hades understood the way it was by Greek speaking people. DO YOU THINK GOD GIVE THEM A REVELATION THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND, OR THAT HE USED A WORD WE CANNOT TRANSLATE OR UNDERSTAND IN