Hell & Underworld

What you're about to read is hard to believe. . . We're going to examine the place the Bible calls hell. We'll present documented evidence for a place called hell. Don't take what you're going to read lightly. If what you read is true ? YOU COULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER!

Several years ago a book was published, entitled Beyond Death's Door by Dr. Maurice Rawlings. Dr. Rawlings, a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many people who had been clinically dead. Dr. Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered all religion "hocus-pocus" and death nothing more than a painless extinction". But something happened in 1977 that brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr. Rawlings! He was resuscitating a man, terrified and screaming ? descending down into the flames of hell: "Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. . . Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was perspiring and trembling ? he looked as if his hair was "on end." Then still another strange thing happened. He said,"Don't you understand? I am in hell. . . Don't let me go back to hell!" . . .the man was serious, and it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a panic like I had never seen before. "(Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door, (Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3). Dr. Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard his screams and saw the look of terror on his face could doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a place called hell!The Bible continually warns of a place called hell. There are over 162 references in the New Testament alone which warns of hell. And over 70 of these references were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!...

Hell is typically conceived in two ways: 1. Hell as a condition: Hell is the condition of being separate from God. 2. Hell as a place/space location:
Hell is the home of condemned souls and devils; the place of eternal punishment for the wicked after death, presided over by Satan who (according to the Bible) will be sent there one day but Satan is not living there now. Nowhere in the Bible is Satan mentioned as currently residing in Hell. In fact Job 1:6 states that Satan appeared with other angels "before the Lord." Then God asked Satan where he had been, Satan replied, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it." - Satan freely moves about Earth. In 1 Peter 5:8 it is stated, "Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." Where did this concept of Hell come from? If we look at the Bible we see several Greek and Hebrew words being "translated" as Hell. In the New Testament, the original Greek words translated into English as "Hell" are "Geenna or Gehenna", "Hades", and a verb, "tartaroo"

Gehenna: The term Gehenna (Greek Geenna; Hebrew Ge Hinnom), was an actual location south of Jerusalem - The Valley of Hinnom. This location was considered a place of abomination because the Bible states that in ancient times Israelites sacrificed their children to a malevolent deity named Moloch, whose worship included human sacrifice, ordeals by fire, and self-mutilation. (See 2 Kings 16:3 - where Ahaz "burned his son as an offering") Later Gehenna became a refuse dump where filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned. The fires were continually maintained to prevent the spread of disease. What the fire did not consume in this place, the worms devoured. Hence Jesus's reference to Gehenna (later translated as Hell) as a place of "wailing and of gnashing of teeth, where the worm does not die" and "where the fire never goes out." To the ancient Greeks, Hades as place, was the underworld itself which was divided into two parts. One part for the dead and the other deeper part was for the captured Titans. Hades according to the myth was a grim place where the souls of the dead were sent....

The asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago presumably initiated the extinction of the dinosaurs. The huge collision also unleashed a worldwide downpour of tiny BB-sized mineral droplets, called spherules.The hard rain did not pelt the dinosaurs to death. But the planet-covering residue left behind may tell us something about the direction of the incoming asteroid, as well as possible extinction scenarios, according to new research. The falling spherules might have heated the atmosphere enoughto start a global fire, as one example. How the spherules formed in the first place, though, has been a bit of a mystery.

One theory is that these half-millimeter-wide (0.02-inch-wide) globules precipitated out of a giant cloud of vaporized rock that circled the planet after the collision. "That vapor is very hot and expands outward from the point of impact, cooling and expanding as it goes," said Lawrence Grossman of the University of Chicago. "As it cools, the vapor condenses as little droplets and rains out over the whole Earth."Grossman and Denton Ebel, from the American Museum of Natural History, have shown that this vapor condensation model is consistentwith data taken from spherules around the world. The scientists also found that chemical differences in spherules from the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean imply that the vapor plume initially moved east, which might pinpoint the arrival direction of the asteroid.Apocalyptic fireball The spherules populate a 3-millimeter (0.12-inch) layer, called the K-T boundary, which separates the Cretaceous from the Paleogene (formally called the Tertiary) geologic periods. The abrupt disappearance of dinosaur fossils — as well as many marine fossils — above this boundary implies that a major extinction event occurred 65 million years ago.Around this same time, a city-sized asteroid landed near the present-day town ofChicxulub......