Apologetics 102, WK7: Hell Week

Introduction toApologetics

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HELLthe Problem of

DEFINITIONS

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Sheol (H) Hades (Gr)

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Gehenna (Gr)

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

Gustave Doré, the Rich man and Lazarus.

Ancient Judaism until c.500BCE

Gustave Doré, the Rich man and Lazarus.

All the dead in Sheol

Jacob Solomon

Creation - Ancient PreHistory, Gen.1-11 Patriarchs - Abraham c.2000BCE, Gen.12 Exodus - Moses Conquest - Canaan, Joshua, 12 Tribes, Mount Gerizim Judges - Samson, Deborah Kings - Saul, David, Solomon, 1st Temple (Jerusalem) Divided Kingdom - Israel (N, 10) and Judea (S, 2) Exile - Assyrians (N, Samaritans), Persians (S, Babylon), Synagogues Return - c.530BCE, 70yrs, Daniel, Nehemiah, 2nd Temple Judaism Intertestament Period - 400BCE-0, Apocrypha

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Resurrection of the Flesh by Luca Signorelli c.1500

Intertestament Period

A Soul Brought to Heaven 1878 - William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Intertestament PeriodImmortal Souls

Jesus

Jesus separating the Sheep from the Goats by Fra Angelico

Hell in the NT

Nec Spe, Nec Metu byNicolas-Antoine Taunay

The Patristics c.100-450AD

The INTERMEDIATE

STATE

Early ViewSt. Augustine

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Purgatory11th century

Luther Calvin

Unconscious Sleep

Most Protestants, Anabaptists & Eastern Orthodox*

CURRENT VIEWS about HELL

Roman Catholic ViewStates of Existence

Eastern Orthodox View

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Protestant Views

TraditionalismEternal Conscious Torment

The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel.

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Eternal Conscious Proportional TormentTraditionalism

Eternal SeparationTraditionalism

Protestant Views

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Universalism

Unitarian Universalism

Protestant Views

ConditionalismConditional Immortality

Annihilation

"Limited conscious punishment”

Unquenchable? Everlasting?

Lazarus & The Rich Man

James Tissot

Counterargument

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