INTRO: Our subject is, "Is Hell Everlasting Fire? My wife came across this quote by Spurgeon the other day. He said: We rob the Gospel of its power if we leave out its threatenings. Could that be one of the reasons why the Church is so powerless today? Well, in our first message we looked at Raegan's first point that hell is not hades. Here is what he said: Hell is not Hades. A careful study of the Scriptures will reveal that Hades in the New Testament is the same place as Sheol in the Old Testament (Psalm 49:15). He teaches that hades refers to a place that had two compartments, paradise and torments. The two compartment view is a theory. It has some Scriptures that might be used to point that way, but it is not clearly taught in the Bible. I view hades as a state, not a place. It is the bodiless state. When the lost enter the bodiless state they go to hell. When the saved enter the bodiless state they go to heaven. Raegan's argument was that since the sins of the OT saints were not actually paid for until Christ died so the saved were in a kind of intermediary place called paradise. Paradise was one part of hades. After Christ died he went to hades, preached to the lost there and then took paradise up to heaven. The place he calls torments was another compartment in hades and it remained where it was.
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