. "the worm never dies" how do you turn never into "sometime in the future"? "age-during" isn't a word but if you are insisting on such literalist readings, you should be consistent and take things literally. So no "this verse could be left out" reasoning. It is a widespread misconception by twisting around this or that word in the bible, you suddenly can change the content of the Christian faith. I have long wanted to do a little work to debunk the endlessly repeated myth that the Hinnom Valley (Gehenna) was a perpetually burning trash dump. (v.24) In Matt 5:22 there is a similar passage where three offenses are mentioned and three punishments that result. Can you confirm whether this was traditional practice? It is retributive and vindictive. Are there going to be new moons and sabbaths in eternity? Consider this myth to be thoroughly debunked. And then "the age" is either eternal both times or it is temporal. If 'aeturnum' always means 'eternal' then Jerome put his foot in his mouth when he wrote this. "Gehenna" was a very concrete location in Jesus' time. It is not "people" who ingore context but you who are grasping at straws of literal nitpicking to justify your beliefs in the light of what Christ or others as recorded in Scripture clearly taught. Which brings us back to our starting point: it is eternal for good and bad or age-enduring for both, not this for one and that for another.]. The explanation for the fire of Gehenna lies not in a burning trash dump, but in the burning of sacrificed children. He must be alive. Though a duration of time is the most common use of the word, just as with most any word, there can be different meanings depending on the context. Shouldn't then all be all in all? Finally, you are also mistaken about time and the eternal life. It is also the location where bodies of executed criminals, or individuals denied a proper burial, would be dumped. Because the church is not a "club for solving real and apparent biblical contradictions", it is not a "bible study club". En contraire. "Worms" in Isaiah 66:24 is towlah, and Gesenius notes that this word is especially used to denote worms that feed on FLESH, although it is also used to talk about worms in bread and the worm that killed Jonah's shade plant. UPDATE (4/29): The views of various scholars on the matter is presented in a new post. activies, not statements of faith). THE LAST ENEMY TO BE DESTROYED IS DEATH! Rather than restate much that has been said before, let me just point you and any interested readers to a couple of articles on the issue of eternal punishment (which was not the subject of this post). There were some that believed in such things but they all went into trouble with it. In Jesus' day, it was once again the city's garbage dump, where a fire was always burning to consume anything thrown on the pile ( Mark 9:43-48 ). And, Christ's wonderful promise into banality? This is getting silly! Gehenna was a burning trash dump outside Jerusalem. After the Jews returned from the Babylonian exile, the valley became a garbage dump where anything considered unclean was placed. At least until a council comes along decades later and says that anyone not confessing a belief in an "eternal hell" is not a Christian? They ignore the nature of both worms and fire to protect their doctrine of an eternal hell. For some reason this comment got swallowed up yesterday: "You are right about Origen's apocatastasis getting him in trouble. The Myth of the Burning Garbage Dump of Gehenna. the creed), negative condemnations ("Whosover says . Your email address will not be published. 20:10. ", Ezekiel 16:55 "When thy sisters, SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER ESTATE, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.". Thats the earliest reference we have to it- a Rabbi writing in the middle ages from Europe, not Israel, some 1100 years after Jesus was born. I have no clue what v.15 you are talking about so you can spare us that. I find it interesting that people use the ideas they have been taught about 'hell' being eternal and transfer that to a symbolic statement that Jesus made about worms and fire. If it had been one, we would expect to find evidence. Todd Bolen, from his bibleplaces blog, rounds up some scholarly sources. No, it means the valley pictured is no longer a steep ravine because it became a landfill, and today is a city park. I am talking about the entire early Church, which did not adhere to your universal salvation theology. Romans 5 speaks of "condemnation to all men" but of "the many will be made righteous" not "all will made righteous". In the case of life age-during, that life is with God, who is eternal. Hades, the Gray Waste of NE Gehenna, the Bleak Eternity of NE, LE The Nine Hells (of Baator) LE Acheron, the Infinite Battlefield of LN, LE Mechanus, the Clockwork Nirvana of LN Arcadia, the. 66:24?. If that seems unfair in your eyes, so be it . [however,] there is no evidence for this claim; it can be traced to a commentary on the book of Psalms written by Rabbi David Kimhi in the early thirteenth century CE. PDF. 60. Perhaps waste products from the lambs were thrown there or pethaps some lambs were slain outside the city walls, but I had never heard this. The "ravine of hinnom" (Gehenna) was the city garbage dump in Jerusalem where the garbage was burned. And that's probably what Jerome is after, distinguishing between this end-less but not time-less eternity and the God's eternity without such constraints, wihtout beginning or end. Spare us your pseudo-physics which can teach us nothing about the afterlife in the New Jerusalem. The move is part of its restructuring following the acquisition of Neovia in 2019 for US$1.81bn. Salvation does not have to be eternal. Rate: Ohio Serpent Mound in the News And nowhere did either Christ or any Apostle ever teach that. Romans 11:32 For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all. You are simply ignoring these. If eternal hell doctrine is so clearly taught in scripture as we have been told, where was the protest over these men even being allowed to attend the council, much less play major roles? So at that point there will be no more "aionian" life, it will be the same life as was lived in the "aion", but now it will continue outside of time. The pictures on this website are copyrighted and may be used only with permission. "Saint" doesn't mean infallible, you know! Brimstone used to be added to fuel the incineration. DIANA is a world leader in natural functional solutions for the food, pet food, nutraceuticals, aquaculture and cosmetics industries, and technology leader in plant cell culture, dedicated to the production of active ingredients for food, cosmetics and health. The earliest explicit reference to the valley as a garbage dump is from the twelfth century AD, but circumstantial evidence in Jeremiah suggests this probably was true even in his time. Everlasting is only aionios in Greek, so that everlasting hell becomes only age-during garbage dump, the age being not 2011 but just AD 70. The restoration of these cities is tied to the PEOPLE that lived there in 16:55. It was a sanitation dump because the city of Jerusalem was above the valley and the filth was allowed to flow into the valley. Gehenna was not a perpetually burning trash dump." . Still, a city the size of Jerusalem needed a dump. It was because Gehenna outside the city of Jerusalem was the place where the bodies of criminals were burned and when the . Well before the time of Jesus, the valley was also used as a refuse heap. The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, kindles it. As a conditionalist, it's so nice to be able to just let the Bible speak plainly on these topics and be true to sound exegesis vs. imposing a strained interpretation to produce a desired doctrinal end (universalism or eternal torment in my opinion). But that doesn't meant that only the "devil gets saved in the end" was condemned. I believe you need to be alive to feel the effects of punishment. The reason they didn't die out was because there was a constant supply of refuge being fed them. And it is obviously contradicting the parable to consider what could happen after the feast for if the kingdom is like that feast and there would be an afterwards, it would no longer be eternal. It does not need to be quenched. Rev. 66:24 says "The THEY SHALL GO FORTH". Thus already in Old Testament times, the Valley of Hinnom was associated with the destiny of the wicked. goes as far as saying the devil would one day be repentant and saved.". Some people use this historical tidbit to make a point either to paint a picture how foul, vivid and terrible hell would be, or alternately to suggest that there is no eternal hell, and the references Jesus makes to the fires of hell and torment was simply a reference to this burning trash pile. The common view today is that Gehenna was the garbage dump of Jerusalem. Those who WOULD. Almost every major commentary on Matthew that mentions Gehenna also spoke of the garbage dump. That the valley was just outside the city of Jerusalem made it an appropriate symbol for those excluded from divine blessing. The New Jerusalem will contain people body and soul living in space in time, with God in happiness for all eternity. That did not happen. GEHENNA ga-hen'-a (geenna (see Grimm-Thayer, under the word)): Gehenna is a transliteration from the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ge-hinnom, "valley of Hinnom." This latter form, however, is rare in the Old Testament, the prevailing name being "the valley of the son of Hinnom." The origin of the "garbage dump" theory appears to be Kimchi. And why should it? When death is destroyed the only thing left is life. And Christ spoke (e.g. Matthew 25) of the "blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" and of the "cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.". 1 [1841], 404-5). And can we actualle be cartain about the identity of Sodom and her daughters? I cannot vouch for Jerome, his meaning or his wording. In any case, we will provide honest advice. Gehenna is the Greek version of the biblical word Gehinnom or Gei Hinnom (the valley of Hinnom Joshua 15:8). The Gehenna Valley was thus a place of burning sewage, burning flesh, and garbage. This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a . It differs from the neutral-leaning Sheol as Gehenna was considered a type of waiting room; the longest one can be there is 11 or 12 months with few exceptions. From "The Fires of Gehenna: View of Scholars" by Todd Bolen, "The first is Edward Robinson, preeminent explorer of the Holy Land beginning in 1838. All of the trash, refuse, and dung from the city was dumped out there. The references to fire in Is 31.9 and Is 33.14 envisioned Yahweh's power as bringing vengeance on Israel's oppressors (Is 33.10 - 12) rather than a fire . When Jesus spoke of Gehenna, his hearers would think of the valley of rotting, worm-infested garbage, where the fire always burned, smoke always lingered, and if the wind blew just right, a smell that sickened the sense wafted in the air. (pp. These words can be used to describe something that is eternal, but this meaning has to be derived from the object they are used in conjunction with. In Jesus' day, it was once again the city's garbage dump, where a fire was always burning to consume anything thrown on the pile ( Mark 9:43-48 ). You are confusing the matters under discussion at the time whith what others wrote at other times. Seems a little disproportionate to me. Put simply, there is no evidence that the valley was, in fact, a perpetually burning garbage dump. Are there going to be new moons and sabbaths in eternity? They will long to die, but death will flee from them. In v.15-16 it seems pretty clear the context of this passage is a universal judgment on all flesh. The Burning Garbage Dump of Gehenna is a myth - posted in Archaeology, Biblical History & Textual Criticism: I've long accepted (without checking - shame on me) the argument that in NT Jerusalem, the valley of Hinnom contained a permanently burning garbage dump, and lay behind the use of Gehenna as a metaphor for complete and total destruction. [I have no clue what v.15 you are talking about so you can spare us that.]. Not necessarily. This combination of abominable fires and divine judgment led to the association of the valley with a place of perpetual judgment (see Isa. No matter how many times people say this and it has become street truth there is no evidence that there was a town dump outside Jerusalem in the first century. Why should anyone want to go out when God and all his people and everything good is inside. Gregory of Nyssa, another prominent teacher of universalism, drafted the part of the Nicean creed dealing with the trinity. Because talking about God is nothing more than information for the unknowing? Gehenna - The Prophetic Garbage Dump. All in all it points to a figurative description rather than a literal. 1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. The case may have been overstated, but may not be completely wrong. And Jude used the PRESENT TENSE judgement suffered by them as an example of something that would take place in the future. But this doesn't give you the right to twist his words. It says it is "not quenched". I don't and hence I will make this a short one. "In any case, Gregory Naziznen was allowed to preside over that council.". Words can indeed mean different things at different times, with different context and different people. Is that decree retroactive? Connection between Greek word used for "Hell," and garbage dumb. Specifically, Bailey states: OR look at a verse like this and at least rethink the idea that worms die and fires are quenched . But if they happened to return next week, would that mean that sinners from Sodom would not be punished for their sins? All who accept it. The thing is, that as the "aion" during which the punishment takes place is coming to an end,DEATH WILL BE SWALLOWED UP BY LIFE! Some scholars claim Gehenna later became a " garbage dump ," where refuse was subsequently burned. True enough. The Gray Waste (more fully, the Gray Wastes of Hades; also, Hades, The Three Glooms, Hope's Loss or The Nadir) is a strongly neutral evil aligned plane of existence. There was a fire there, burning constantly to consume the trash. If He only referred to Gehenna itself, a garbage dump that was used as an incinerator outside the city of Jerusalem, the teachers of the law and the Pharisees in Jesus' time had nothing to do with the judgment of Gehenna. There was not a trash pile perpetually burning. Kent thank you for your comment. Jude uses the fate of Sodom as recounted in Genesis as a type of divine punishment. In Mark 9 is Jesus taking a literal prophecy in Isaiah and using it as a parable of something "eternal"? We seem to just read right past those verses. It is not difficult to see, from these and other texts (e.g., 2 Kgs 23:10; 2 Chr 28:3, 33:6; Jer 32:35), why Jesus and his contemporaries used the word Gehenna (valley of Hinnom) as synonymous with the place of everlasting fiery torment. Still, because it seems like a reasonable explanation for the origin of the Hinnom Valley as "hell," commentators and preachers have accepted it. Therefore, this valley, this Gehenna, was a detestable place to God's people. Uhh no. Calling God "The God of the ages" (aions) is stating a fact, God is God over the ages. We can trace the develope a transition of the place of the dead from a pit to a water filled pit and then to similar with fire. The idea is that the Valley of Hinnon laid just south of Jerusalem, immediately outside its walls,and that all the refuse and waste from Jerusalem was burned there, and it was pretty much the most disgusting and horrifying place on earth. If ALL will be made alive than any passage referring to future punishment MUST be viewed in light of that fact. I am disturbed by the anger and name-calling of the resident I am sure he will give the usual excuses. Most bibles that have copious cross-references for other verses with similarities like this strangely do not have any for this one.). Another portion of the ravine became a cesspool receiving the . A Christian in error is still a Christian. One of the strange things about all of the talk about whether punishment is eternal or not is the fact that if the Lord had wanted to communicate the idea that punishment would be eternal, there are several ways to do this in Greek and make it crystal clear. Hell is the place of the future punishment called "Gehenna" or "Gehenna of fire". ), "And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.". [Worms and fire normally die and go out (no need for nitpicking about how going out is not being quenched) this is why Jesus raises the point that these worms and this fire (which is obviously figurative language) do NOT DIE and do NOT GO OUT. This practice was carried out . "For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, who despised the oath by breaking the covenant.". Hell fire, Gehenna the garbage dump with its constantly burning fire. Should a Complementarian Speak with Lady Preachers? http://www.afterlife.co.nz/2012/featured-article/tracing-the-road-to-gehenna/ An article looking at Gehenna in the OT and why Jesus may have chosen to use this word. But note that Sodom has not returned to its former state, so I doubt your literalist reading is correct. What is supposed to come after salvation? One is kolasin, the other timoria. One question to ask about the parable of the rich man and Lazarus Why the need for a gulf to keep those in Abraham's bosom from going to the other side where there was torment? However, the word simply means the Valley (heb. Yes, that Origen took the idea of universal salvation to its extreme (though it is unclear how far he actually believed this to be factual or whether he was simply engaging in an experiment of thought) and it was this extreme form that was shocking to many Christians. And just like all garbage dumps, there were worms. >>And speaking of context, you are ignoring the context that Jesus is alluding to in this passage, and that is Isaiah 66:23-24. Explore the mistranslations and actual meanings of eternal and hell (aion, gehenna/hades/tartaroo/sheol). Required fields are marked *. Is. It smoldered there beneath the surface, incinerating the rotting, smelly garbage. Dead animals and bodies of executed criminals would be put there along with all trash. The Greek word GeHenna is often translated as Hell Fire in other Bibles. Now I know why I never found any. 19 For as through the one mans disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. It is not "people" who ingore context but you who are grasping at straws of literal nitpicking to justify your beliefs in the light of what Christ or others as recorded in Scripture clearly taught.]. It is a reasonable deduction that there would be a dump and also reasonable that sometimes it would be alite and bodies throw there for shame. And of course, the worm did not die there, meaning that there were always new maggots going through their life-cycles, feeding on the trash. "I doubt I will convince you of anything and I don't have time to continue a running debate, but every time I go through this process, I learn something so it has been worth it.". The interpretive contortions the universalists and eternal tormenters engaged in made my head hurt! Though only for a while, but of course his being rejected is not related to any universalist teaching (if he held such, which is not undisputed), which were not the issue in 381. Jesus used this term. Isaiah 30:33 (HCSB) Indeed! Out of six major "seminaries" ". You can also spare us quasi-racist ideas like >>legalistic "glasses" that came into the church from the Latin converts<<, Jude 1:7 "In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. Mk. The first results in being in danger of the "judgement". He claims they are already undergoing it. Rome? You will forgive me that I will not go and read through all the parables but if I have immediately three springing to mind that teach a final, unchangeable judgement than I don't need to have dozens others agree with that or read anything into them. With the common sense which often characterizes Jewish commentators, Kimhi says that the place was the dump of the city, where fires were always kept burning to destroy the refuse; therefore the judgment of the wicked is parabolically called Gehenna.But from the Biblical references the place appears to have nothing physically objectionable about it; in contrast to its contemporary condition Jeremiah prophesied that it would one day be called Valley of Slaughter (The Holy City and Gehenna, JBL 27/1 [1908], 34). (v.23) Who is it that is going to go out of the city and look at the worm-eaten, burning bodies? The doors were certainly locked as long as the wedding feast endures. One can have a temporal stay with the eternal God. I thought, Anon, you didn't have time. What has that got to do with it. The planned facility closures, along with a marketing office, could likely lead to the loss of 88 jobs, said a spokesperson. A Christian in error is still a Christian.]. On three occasions, gehenna is paired with (G4442, pyr, "fire") to read "hell fire" (Matthew 5:22; Matthew 18:9; Mark 9:47). "Even when the term "aionian" is applied to God Himself, this does not mean it is describing Him as eternal. Check out Matt 25:46. Again, the torment is the separation. Rather, god gives the gift of immortality to the saved only per apostle Paul. Gehenna as a Garbage Dump? For example, eternal salvation doesn't mean God is saving us daily (rather an eternal result of a one time event) just as eternal judgment not mean God is tormenting the lost daily, rather the one time event (the second death) had eternal result as well. By your rationale, the "everlasting life" Jesus promised really only meant life until AD 70. 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