Gehenna, Lake of Fire and Sheol

[GodIsMySavior]

Jesus uses a unique Greek word in Matt 10 and against the Pharisees in Matt 23:33.
First let's explore G1067 more closely in a Hebrew/Jewish concept and why the word "hell" is an obsolute word. [tho it is generally used as a euphemism/slang of a type ofchaos or disruption. such as "my life is hell" or "I am going thru hell today..."]

Matthew 10:28 “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in gehenna<1067>.

Keep in mind, that Matt 23 precedes the Olivet Discourse and the 70ad destruction of Jerusalem by fire by the Roman army.

Matthew 23:
15 'Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
33 "Serpents! brood of vipers! how? ye may be fleeing from the judging of the Gehenna<1067>

Strong's Number G1067 matches the Greek γέεννα (geenna) which occurs 12 times in 12 verses
Used 11 times in the Gospels and 1 verse in James.
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STRONGS NT 1067: γέεννα

Gehenna, the name of a valley on the south and east of Jerusalem [yet apparently beginning on the West, cf. Joshua 15:8; Pressel in Herzog, under the word], which was so called from the cries of the little children who were thrown into the fiery arms of Moloch [which see], i. e. of an idol having the form of a bull. The Jews so abhorred the place after these horrible sacrifices had been abolished by king Josiah (2 Kings 23:10), that they cast into it not only all manner of refuse, but even the dead bodies of animals and of unburied criminals who had been executed.

And since fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called γέεννα τοῦ πυρός [this common explanation of the descriptive genitive τοῦ πυρός is found in Rabbi David Kimchi (fl. circa A.D. 1200) on Psalm 27:13. .........................

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Matthew 23:33 Commentaries: "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

Pulpit Commentary
How can ye escape? Πῶς φύγητε; the deliberative conjunctive, How shall ye escape? Quo mode fugietis? (Vulgate). There is no emphasis on "can" in the Authorized Version. What hope is there now of your repentance? Can anything soften the hardness of your hearts? The Baptist had spoken more hopefully, "Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" But now the day of grace is past; the sin against the Holy Ghost is committed; there remaineth only the fearful looking for of judgment. The damnation of hell; literally, the judgment of Gehenna; judicio Gehennae (Vulgate); i.e. the sentence that condemns to eternal death (Matthew 5:22). The phrase is common in the rabbinical writings (see Lightfoot). "Before sinning, we ought to fear lest it be the filling up; after sinning, we should trust in a truly Christian hope that it is not, and repent. This is the only means to escape the damnation of hell; but how rare is this grace after a pharisaical life!" (Quesnel). Hypocrisy is a bar to repentance...........
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Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

, "the judgment, or damnation of hell", is a phrase often used in the Talmud (p), and Midrashes (q) of the Jews; and intends future torment, and the everlasting vengeance and wrath of God, the unquenchable fire prepared for the devil and his angels, and which impenitent unbelieving sinners cannot escape,
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Hell - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

How the 3 Abrahamic religions view hell:

Abrahamic religions
Hell is conceived of in most Abrahamic religions as a place of, or a form of, punishment.[38]

Judaism
See also: Gehenna and Sheol

Early Judaism had no concept of Hell, although the concept of an afterlife was introduced during the Hellenistic period, apparently from neighboring Hellenistic religions. It occurs for example in the Book of Daniel. Daniel 12:2 proclaims "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt."
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Christianity

The Christian doctrine of hell derives from passages in the New Testament. The word hell does not appear in the Greek New Testament; instead one of three words is used: the Greek words Tartarus or Hades, or the Hebrew word Gehinnom.............................

The Roman Catholic Church defines Hell as "a state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed." One finds oneself in Hell as the result of dying in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love, becoming eternally separated from him by one's own free choice[66] immediately after death.[67] In the Roman Catholic Church, many other Christian churches, such as the Baptists and Episcopalians, and some Greek Orthodox churches,[68] Hell is taught as the final destiny of those who have not been found worthy after the general resurrection and last judgment,[69][70][71] where they will be eternally punished for sin and permanently separated from God. ..............................

In the Septuagint and New Testament the authors used the Greek term Hades for the Hebrew Sheol, but often with Jewish rather than Greek concepts in mind. In the Jewish concept of Sheol, such as expressed in Ecclesiastes
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Islam

n Islam, jahannam (in Arabic: جهنم) (related to the Hebrew word gehinnom) is the counterpart to heaven and likewise divided into seven layers, both co-existing with the temporal world,[97] filled with blazing fire, boiling water, and a variety of other torments for those who have been condemned to it in the hereafter. In the Quran, God declares that the fire of Jahannam is prepared for both mankind and jinn.[98][99] After the Day of Judgement, it is to be occupied by those who do not believe in God, those who have disobeyed his laws, or rejected his messengers.[100] "Enemies of Islam" are sent to Hell immediately upon their deaths.[101] Muslim modernists downplay the vivid descriptions of hell common during Classical period, on one hand reaffirming that the afterlife must not be denied, but simultaneously asserting its exact nature remains unknown.
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[Prycejosh1987]

Its difficult to understand that early Judaism had no concept of Hell, Remember Korah and the people that rebelled against Moses, it says they went down alive to the place of the dead. Daniels three friends went into a fiery furnace, this is a analogy of God and Hell, in a smaller sense. There are the prophecies that relate to Jesus going to the place of the dead. Think about this, if they didnt believe in Hell, then what would be the point of their faith and practising believing in God is they didnt believe in hell.

 

[Who Me]

How the 3 Abrahamic religions view hell:

Is there a reason for this?

Hell, what ever fancy name you give it is real and the important fact to remember is there is a way to avoid going there.

Consider all that Jesus gave up, cast off, limited, endured and suffered inorder that we might fool around with Christianity.

Why did Jesus do all he did? Yes he Loved us, but if there is no eternal separation from God, no eternal punishment and no eternal anguish in hell why did Jesus do all he did.


The extent of our danger is indicated by the extent of his acts of love.