The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 74 : Excursus – Sheol, Hades and Gehenna

An overview of the doctrine of everlasting punishment  –  Errors: reincarnation, Eastern Religions, annihilists, universalists  –  SHEOL defined and explained  –  HADES defined and explained  –  HELL defined and explained  –  GEHENNA defined and explained  –  Descriptions of hell  –  The judgement of hell is forever  –  Who is going to hell?  –  God takes no pleasure in the lost going to hell  –  God strongly warns against the lost going to hell  –  The Great White Throne judgement  –  Hades was the ‘abode of the dead’  –  A ‘departmentalized hades’ founded in Greek mythology  –  The Jews in the time of Christ believed gehenna was a place of eternal punishment  –  The origina of the phrase ‘He descended into hell’ in the Apostles’ Creed