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The Harrowing of Hell has been a unique and important doctrine among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since its founding in 1830 by Joseph Smith, although members of the church (known as "Mormons") usually call it by other terms, such as "Christ's visit to the spirit world".
Hades, according to various Christian denominations, is "the place or state of departed spirits", [1] borrowing the name of Hades, the name of the underworld in Greek mythology. It is often associated with the Jewish concept of Sheol .
The subject takes its starting point from the First Epistle of Peter: . By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
So that the spirit, after its departure from the body, after hearing its doom, and upon the execution of the sentence, enters immediately into Hades, either to a state and place of suffering or of enjoyment. And here, in Hades, the righteous enjoy bliss, such as 'eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, not the heart of man conceived.'
The Harrowing of Hell, depicted in the Petites Heures de Jean de Berry, 14th-century illuminated manuscript According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology , the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld , which is common in many mythologies. [ 51 ]
The English 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. 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.
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Plan of Salvation in LDS Religion. Joseph F. Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presents an elaborate vision of the afterlife. It is revealed as the scene of an extensive missionary effort by righteous spirits in paradise to redeem those still in darkness—a spirit prison or "hell" where the souls of the dead remain until ...