Just What Is Hell - Part 1
Just What Is Hell - Part 1
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T07God,DoesHeExist.mp3Zipembedzo zambiri zimafuna kuti tizikhulupirira kuti Mulungu adzazunza anthu miyandamiyanda kumoto kosatha, kumoto wotchedwa helo. Koma kodi Akristu angakhulupirire bwanji zimenezo, popeza kuti Baibulo limene iwo amati limatiuza kuti “Mulungu ndiye chikondi” ( 1 Yohane 4:8 )?
Poona kufunika kwa helo m’chikhalidwe chotchuka chachikristu, wina angaganize kuti mutuwo uli m’masamba a Baibulo, koma kodi mumadziŵa kuti m’matembenuzidwe ake achingelezi olondola kwambiri amakono, Baibulo lonse lathunthu limangopezeka ka 13 kokha kwa liwu lakuti helo? Kupezeka 13 ndikofanana ndendende ndi zomwe zingapezeke mu American Standard Version (ASV), New American Standard Bible (NASB), Revised Standard Version (RSV), New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), ndi New International Version yotchuka kwambiri. (NIV). Baibulo lodziwika bwino la English Standard Version (ESV) ndi New Living Translation (NLT) limatchulanso za gehena ka 14 ndi 17.
Pamene helo wa helo umapezeka ka 13, n’chifukwa chakuti anagwiritsiridwa ntchito mosasintha kumasulira malo 12 a mawu Achigiriki akuti gehenna m’malo 12 a mawu Achigiriki akuti tartaroo . Kodi matanthauzo a mawu awiriwa akugwirizana ndi zimene anthu amaona kuti helo amatanthauza? Pa nthawi ya Khristu, chinkagwira ntchito ngati chotenthetsera chimene moto wake woyaka mosalekeza unkapsereza ndi kuwononga zonse zoponyedwa mmenemo. Yesu anagwiritsa ntchito Gehena kutanthauza chiwonongeko chotheratu, osati malo ozunzirako anthu. Tartaroo imapezeka pa 2 Petro 2:4 molakwika pamene atembenuzidwa molakwika kuti "kuponyedwa ku gehena". Malinga ndi kunena kwa Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, tartaroo “imatanthauza kutumizidwa ku Tatalasi, kumene kuli malo kumene angelo amene amatchulidwa m’ndime imeneyo zauchimo wapadela ‘osungidwira ku chiweruzo; derali likufotokozedwa kuti ndi ‘maenje amdima’ m’Baibulo la Revised Version.” Awanso si malo ozunzikirapo, osatchulapo kuti ndi akanthawi kochepa. Siziyenera kukhala zodabwitsa kuti matembenuzidwe angapo a Baibulo (mwachitsanzo Baibulo la Chingelezi la Dziko Lapansi la 2000) ayesa kuswa mwambo, kusunga maina a malo Gehena ndi Tatalasi m’malo moloŵa m’malo mwa liwu losokeretsa la helo.
Shelo ndi Hade
Shelo ndi Hade
Chimene sichinathandizepo n’chakuti Baibulo lofunika kwambiri la 1611 la King James Version (KJV) lotembenuzidwa kukhala helo pafupifupi theka la malo 66 a liwu lachihebri lakuti sheol m’Chipangano Chakale, ndipo malo 10 onse a liwu lofananalo lachigiriki lakuti Hades Chipangano Chatsopano. Koma malinga ndi Vine, hade mwina amachokera ku hado, kutanthauza kulandira zonse. Chifukwa chake, matembenuzidwe otsatirawa a Baibulo adasiya sheol ndi hade osatembenuzidwa, kapena monga NIV ndi NLT, awamasulira ndi mawu akuti manda kapena china chake ngati malo a akufa. Zoonadi, Baibulo limanena kuti malo “olandira onse,” kumene akufa amapita, ndiwo manda! Kodi mwadabwa?
Kuti timvetsetse bwino, tifunika kudziŵa za mkhalidwe umene umakhalapo pa imfa. Yesu ananena kuti imfa ndi tulo. Yesu ananena za bwenzi lake Lazaro, amene anali wakufa ndipo anali m’manda kwa masiku anayi, kuti anali m’tulo ( Yohane 11:11 ).
Tamvani mawu a Yobu akuti: “Mukandibisa kumanda, ndi kundibisa kufikira utapita mkwiyo wanu; Mukadandiikiratu nthawi, ndi kundikumbukira! ( Yobu 14:13 , NIV ). Manda m’vesili ndi liwu lachihebri lakuti sheol. Shelo akanakhala kuti ndi malo ozunzirako anthu, Yobu sakanapempha kuti abisidwe mmenemo. Timaŵerenga pa Mlaliki 9:5 ndi 10 kuti: “Pakuti amoyo adziŵa kuti tidzafa; alibenso mphotho ina, ngakhale dzina lawo laiwalika... Chilichonse dzanja lako lichipeza kuchichita, uchichite ndi mphamvu zako zonse, pakuti kumanda kumene ukupitako kulibe kugwira ntchito ngakhale kulingirira ngakhale kudziwa. kapena nzeru.” Mafotokozedwe amenewa akugwirizana bwino kwambiri ndi Yesu kuti imfa ndiyo tulo! Koma Yesu ananenanso kuti tsiku lina kudzakhala kugalamuka: “Musadabwe! Inde, nthawi idzafika pamene akufa onse ali m’manda adzamva mawu a Mwana wa Mulungu, ndipo adzaukitsidwa. Iwo amene adachita zabwino adzauka ku moyo wosatha, ndipo iwo amene akupitiriza kuchita zoipa adzauka ku chilango” (Yohane 5:28-29, NLT). Baibulo limaphunzitsa za kuukitsidwa kwa akufa kuŵiri m’vesili. Pali chiwukitsiro choyamba cha iwo amene amatsatira Yesu mokhulupirika pa nthawi ino, m’nthawi ya Uthenga Wabwino ( Chivumbulutso 20:6 ), ndipo pambuyo pake pali chiukitsiro cha ku chiweruzo cha dziko lonse lapansi.
Kuuka kwa akufa ndi chiphunzitso chofunika kwambiri chimene mtumwi Paulo ananena, ngati kulibe kuuka kwa akufa “kulalikira kwathu n’kwachabechabe, ndi chikhulupiriro chanunso.” ( 1 Akorinto 15:13-14 , NW ). Yesu anafa mwa kupachikidwa, kulipira mtengo wa dipo kuwombola anthu onse ku chilango cha imfa cha uchimo. Lemba la 1 Timoteyo 2:5-6 limatiuza kuti: “Pakuti pali Mulungu mmodzi, ndi mkhalapakati mmodzi pakati pa Mulungu ndi anthu, munthu Khristu Yesu, amene anadzipereka yekha dipo la anthu onse.” Zimenezi zidzavumbulidwa kwa anthu onse pamene adzaukitsidwa ku nthaŵi ya chiweruzo, monga momwe mneneri Yesaya ananenera kuti: “Pamene maweruzo anu afika pa dziko lapansi, anthu a m’dziko lapansi adzaphunzira chilungamo.” ( Yesaya 26:9b ) Zimenezi zidzachititsa kuti anthu asamakhale olungama. Zimenezi n’zimenenso Akhristu akhala akupemphera kwa zaka pafupifupi 2,000 m’pemphero limene limatchedwa Pemphero la Ambuye lakuti: “Ufumu wanu udze, kufuna kwanu kuchitidwe, monga Kumwamba chomwecho pansi pano.” Uneneri ndi pempheroli zidzakwaniritsidwadi pamene Yesu adzabweranso ndi mpingo wake kudzakhazikitsa ufumu wake padziko lapansi wa zaka 1,000.
Many religions would have us believe that God will torment millions for all eternity, in a fiery place called hell. But how can Christians believe that, since the Bible they profess tells us that “God is love” (1 John 4:8)?
Given the importance of hell in popular Christian culture, one would think that the topic saturates the pages of the Bible, but did you know that in its most accurate modern English versions, the entire Bible typically features only 13 occurrences of the word hell? Thirteen occurrences are exactly what can be found in the American Standard Version (ASV), the New American Standard Bible (NASB), the Revised Standard Version (RSV), the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), and the very popular New International Version (NIV). The equally popular English Standard Version (ESV) and New Living Translation (NLT) feature respectively 14 and 17 references to hell.
When hell appears 13 times, it is because it was used consistently to translate the New Testament’s 12 occurrences of the Greek word gehenna and its single occurrence of the Greek word tartaroo. Are the meanings of these two words in harmony with what people understand hell to mean?Gehenna refers to the Valley of Hinnom, just south of Jerusalem, where trash, garbage, dead animals, and the bodies of executed prisoners used to be thrown. At the time of Christ, it functioned as an incinerator whose continually burning fires consumed and destroyed all that was cast into it. Jesus used Gehenna metaphorically to denote total destruction, not a place of torture. Tartaroo occurs only in 2 Peter 2:4 where it is erroneously translated “cast down to hell”. According to Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words, tartaroo “signifies to consign to Tartarus, which is the place where those angels whose special sin is referred to in that passage are confined ‘to be reserved unto judgment;’ the region is described as ‘pits of darkness’ in the Revised Version.” This is not a place of torture either, not to mention that it is of temporary duration. It should be no surprise that several Bible versions (for example the 2000 World English Bible) have dared to break with tradition, preserving the place names Gehenna and Tartarus instead of substituting the misleading word hell.
Sheol and hades
Sheol and hades
What hasn’t helped matters is that the monumental 1611 King James Version (KJV) of the Bible translated as hell almost half of the 66 occurrences of the Hebrew word sheol in the Old Testament, and all 10 occurrences of the equivalent Greek word hades in the New Testament. But according to Vine, hades is most probably derived from hado, signifying all-receiving. Accordingly, subsequent Bible translations have left sheol and hades untranslated, or like the NIV and NLT, have translated them with the word grave or something like the realm of the dead. Indeed, the Bible says that the place “of all receiving”, where those who die go, is the grave! Are you surprised?
To better understand, we need to know about the condition that prevails at death. Jesus spoke of death as a sleep. Jesus said of his friend Lazarus, who had been dead and in the grave for four days, that he had been asleep (John 11:11).
Hear the words of Job: “If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!” (Job 14:13, NIV). Grave in this verse is the Hebrew word sheol. If sheol were a place of torment, Job would never have asked to be hidden there. We read in Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 10: “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten... Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” How clearly does this description agree with Jesus that the condition of death is a sleep! But Jesus also said that there would one day be an awakening: “Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s Son, and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment” (John 5:28-29, NLT). The Bible teaches two resurrections in this verse. There is the first resurrection for those who faithfully follow Jesus at this present time, during the Gospel age (Revelation 20:6), and later there is the resurrection to judgment for the rest of the world.
The resurrection is such an important teaching that the Apostle Paul said, if there is no resurrection “our preaching is useless and so is your faith” (1 Corinthians 15:13-14, NIV). Jesus died by crucifixion, paying the ransom price to redeem all mankind back from sin’s penalty of death. 1 Timothy 2:5-6 tells us, “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people.” This will be revealed to all mankind when they are resurrected to a time of judgment, as told by the prophet Isaiah: “When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness” (Isaiah 26:9b). This is the very thing that Christians have prayed for some two thousand years in what is known as The Lord’s Prayer: “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” This prophecy and prayer will indeed come true when Jesus returns with His church to set up His 1,000-year earthly kingdom.
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