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Biblical text on a synagogue in Holešov, Czech Republic: "Hashem kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up." (1 Samuel 2:6)Sheol (/ ˈ ʃ iː. oʊ l,-əl / SHEE-ohl, -uhl; Hebrew: שְׁאוֹל Šəʾōl, Tiberian: Šŏʾōl) [1] in the Hebrew Bible is the underworld place of stillness and darkness which lies after death.
The Bosom of jesus, Romanesque capital from the former Priory of Alspach, Alsace.(Unterlinden Museum, Colmar)The Bosom of Abraham refers to the place of comfort in the biblical Sheol (or Hades in the Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew scriptures from around 200 BC, and therefore so described in the New Testament) [1] where the righteous dead await Judgment Day.
It is generally agreed that both sheol and hades do not typically refer to the place of eternal punishment, but to the grave, the temporary abode of the dead, the underworld. [ 3 ] " Gehenna " in the New Testament, where it is described as a place where both soul and body could be destroyed ( Matthew 10 :28) in "unquenchable fire" ( Mark 9 :43).
Jehovah's Witnesses hold that the soul ceases to exist when the person dies [93] and therefore that hell (Sheol or Hades) is a state of non-existence. [93] In their theology, Gehenna differs from Sheol or Hades in that it holds no hope of a resurrection. [93]
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In Catholic theology, the term "hell" – translated from Latin infernus, Greek ᾍδης Hades, and Hebrew שְׁאוֹל Sheol – can most broadly refer any "abode" where souls, after death, reside who "have not obtained the happiness of heaven". [3] These abodes include the following three:
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Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami.That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...