THE KING JAMES VERSION HAS HAD SEVERAL REVERSIONS AND THE ONE THAT IS USED TODAY IS NOT THE ORIGINAL
1611 VERSION; IT IS THE LAST OF SEVERAL REVISIONS.
WESTSTER BIBLE (1611) 49 TIMES | 26 TIMES | 23 TIMES
NEW KING JAMES VERSION (1982) 32 TIMES | 19 TIMES | 13 TIMES
YOUNG'S LITERAL BIBLE (1891) 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION (1901) 13 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 13 TIMES
NEW AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION (1960) 13 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 13 TIMES
REVISED STANDARD VERSION (1946) 13 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 13 TIMES
DERBY TRANSLATION (1890-1961) 12 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 12 TIMES
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (1987) 14 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 14 TIMES
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (2010) 13 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 13 TIMES
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION - UK(1984) 14 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 14 TIMES
TODAY’S NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION(2005)13 TIMES| 0 TIMES | 13 TIMES
AMPLIFIED BIBLE (1987) 15 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 15 TIMES*
NEW CENTURY VERSION (1987) 12 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 12 TIMES
NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION (1989) 13 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 13 TIMES
REVISED ENGLISH BIBLE (1989) 28 TIMES | 15 TIMES | 13 TIMES
CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION (1995) 20 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 20 TIMES
NEW LIVING TRANSLATION (1996) 19 TIMES | 3 TIMES | 16 TIMES
ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION (2001) 14 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 14 TIMES
HOLMAN CHRISTIAN STANDARD BIBLE(2003) 11 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 11 TIMES
UPDATE BIBLE VERSION 1 9 (2003) 12 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 12 TIMES
PESHITTA - LAMSA TRANSLATION 12 TIMES | 1 TIME | 11 TIMES
COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE (2011) 13 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 13 TIMES
DARBY TRANSLATION (CATHOLIC) 14 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 14 TIMES
NEW AMERICAN BIBLE (CATHOLIC) (1991) 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES
WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (CATHOLIC) 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES
ROTHERHAM EMPHASIZED (1902) 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES
YOUNG'S LITERAL TRANSLATION 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES
FENTON'S BIBLE IN MODERN ENGLISH(1903) 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES
HEBREW NAMES VERSION OF WEB 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES | 0 TIMES
DANIEL MACE NEW TESTAMENT (1729) 3 TIMES
WESLEY' N. T (THE ORIGINAL, NOT SOME UPDATED EDITIONS)(1755) 0 TIMES
SCARLETT'S NEW TESTAMENT (1798) 0 TIMES
NEW COVENANT, NEW TESTAMENT (1884) 0 TIMES
SCRIVENRE NEW TESTAMENT (1884) 0 TIMES
HANSON'S NEW COVENANT (1884) 0 TIMES
TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT (1900) 0 TIMES
ROTHERHAM'S EMPHASIZED BIBLE (REPRINTED) (1902) 0 TIMES
FENTON'S HOLY BIBLE IN MODERN ENGLISH (1903) 0 TIMES
WEYMOUTH’S NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN SPEECH (1903) 0 TIMES
PANIN'S NUMERIC ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT (1914) 0 TIMES
THE PEOPLE'S NEW COVENANT (OVERBURY) (1925) 0 TIMES
WESTERN NEW TESTAMENT (1926) 0 TIMES
THE NEW TESTAMENT, A TRANSLATION (CLEMENTSON) (1938) 0 TIMES
J. B. PHILLIPS NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH (1947) 1 TIMES
NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR ANOINTED (TOMANEK)(1958) 0 TIMES
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WESTERN NEW TESTAMENT (1959) 0 TIMES
RESTORATION OF ORIGINAL SACRED NAME BIBLE (1976) 0 TIMES
THE NEW TESTAMENT, A NEW TRANSLATION (GREBER) (1980) 0 TIMES
CONCORDANCE LITERAL NEW TESTAMENT (1983) 0 TIMES
CHRISTIAN BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT (1991) 0 TIMES
RECOVERY VERSION, NEW TESTAMENT (1991) 0 TIMES
NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVOR JESUS ANOINTED 0 TIMES
THE ORIGINAL BIBLE PROJECT (DR TABOR) 0 TIMES
THE NEW TESTAMENT IN GREEK AND ENGLISH (KNEELAND) (1823) 0 TIMES
INTERLINEAR GREEK-ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT(NOTE A)(BERRY)(1897) 0 TIMES
EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT, GREEK/ENGLISH INTERLINEAR (WILSON) (1942) 0 TIMES
ZONDERVAN PARALLEL N. T. IN GREEK AND ENGLISH (NOTE A)(1975) 0 TIMES
NASB-NIV PARALLEL N. T. IN GREEK AND ENGLISH(MARSHALL)(1986) 0 TIMES
INTERLINEAR NASB-NIV PARALLEL NT GREEK-ENGLISH(NOTE A)(1993) 0 TIMES
JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY BIBLE OLD TESTAMENT(NOTE B)(1917) 0 TIMES
TANAKH, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, OLD TESTAMENT (NOTE B)(1985) 0 TIMES
THE COMPLETE JEWISH BIBLE (NOTE B) 0 TIMES
THE SEPTUAGINT-TRANSLATION OF HEBREW TO GREEK 3RD CENTURY BC 0 TIMES
*12 times the Amplified Bible has "Hell (Gehenna)" in the text, not in a footnote.
Note A. The word-for-word translations beneath the Greek, not the translations in the margin.
Note B. All Jewish translations I found of the Old Testament do not have "Hell" in them. It is not in the Septuagint, a translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek that was in used in the time of Christ.
I find it strange that the Catholic Church believes in Hell, but they removed Hell from two translations they made. I have been told that there is a NWT translation by the Jehovah's Witnesses that dose not have "Hell" in it, but I could not confirm this. I am sure there are many others that I do not know about in English, and there are many in other languages for Gehenna, like all other proper nouns, is seldom translated or changed to another proper noun in the translations in other languages.
ONE EXAMPLE OF THE VANISHING HELL Psalms 116:3.
"The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of HELL gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow." King James Version.
"The pains of death encompassed me, and the pangs of SHEOL laid hold of me" New King James Version.
"The cord of death compassed me, and the pains of SHEOL gat hole upon me" American Standard Version.
"The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of SHEOL laid hold on me" Revised Standard Version.
"The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the GRAVE came upon me" New International Version.
"Death had its hands around my throat; the terrors of the GRAVE overtook me" New Living Translation.
"The cords of death bound me, SHEOL held me in its grip" Revised English Bible.
"The cords and sorrows of death were around me, and the terrors of SHEOL [the place of the dead] had laid hold of me" Amplified Bible.
"The ropes of death bound me, and the fear of the GRAVE took hold of me" New Century Bible.
Why did the King James translator‘s use the Old English word ―Hell‖? Was it not to force their pagan beliefs into the teaching of Jesus?
When was the last time you heard a sermon of hell? There was a time when most every revival had one or more sermons on the horrors of the Hell that most were going to.
Most every sermon ended with a warning that all that did not repent was going to Hell.
Jonathan Edwards was well known for his ―Hell-fire‖ sermons. These "Hellfire"
preachers are not as poplar as they once were and their audience is much smaller. Today in most churches a sermon on Hell is never preached and no one is told he or she will go to Hell if they do not repent. Although there are many who do not believe in Hell and other that are no longer sure that there is a Hell why do many say nothing about it in their sermons and Bible lessons?
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A preacher may think he would not be allowed to preach and most would not. Many
churches would brand him a heretic and he would not be able to preach in most churches.
Elders and Deacons would not be allowed to continue as Elders and Deacons. Bible teachers would not be permitted to teach. Members would not be permitted to lead singing, lead prayer, or do anything in the worship service. About all that anyone who does not believe in Hell is permitted to do in most churches is come and sit and give their money; you will be shut out and not be permitted to lead prayer or take part in the worship in any way, but no matter what you believe you will be permitted and even expected to give your money. Along with many others I can tell you for a fact that this is sure to happen in most congregations of the church.
THE VANISHING HELL
THE CHANGING HELL
Why are there many conflicting Hells? In ―Four Views of Hell‖ William Grocket gives four different and conflicting views of Hell that are now being taught in the Protestant churches by four top of the line orthodox Protestant scholars. In ―Two Views Of Hell‖ Robert A. Peterson and William Fudge give two competing views. These two
books show that there are very different competing views about Hell in the Protestant churches, but in true there are many more than four very different conflicting views in Protestant and Catholic churches, all with a large number of believers, and many more views in other churches. Any view a person may have, all that believe the same view is in a small group when compared with all that are in all other group. Not one of the many views of Hell has even one-fifth of all those that claim to believe the Bible. The divisions on what Hell is and who will be in it is unbelievable, and most who say they believe in Hell has no idea of the vast number of the visions of Hell, or the unbelievable differences in what Hell is believed to be, how long it will last, who will be in it, and where it will be.
TWENTH-FOUR PLUS VERSIONS OF HELL
Did you know there are over 24 different Hells that are commonly believed by many?
While some have some features that are similar they are all difference and have sharp disagreements. Those that believe one version of Hell are in conflict with those that believe any of the others.
SOME OF THE MANY DIVISIONS OF THE PROTESTANT VERSIONS OF HELL
1. The Calvin Version of Hell
2. The Jonathan Edwards version
3. The Graphic view of Hell
4. Satan doing the tormenting
5. God doing the tormenting
6. The Metaphorical view of both Heaven and Hell
7. Mental anguish only Hell - Billy Graham
8. C. S Lewis - the almost pleasant Hell
9. Protestant Traditionalist
10. Many Protestant Premillennial versions
11. Realized Eschatology – A. D. 70 version
12. Protestant Rephaim version
EIGHT OTHER VERSIONS OF HELL
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1. Church of Christ, Christian Church Abraham‘s bosom after Judgment Hell, A
newer version
2. Edward Fudge version: The short Hell
3. Christadelphians version
4. Church of God and others
5. Universalist version of Hell
6. Seventh-Day Advent version
7. Latter-day Saints version [Mormons]
8. The Grave is Hell version [Jehovah's Witnesses]
THREE CATHOLIC VERSIONS OF HELL
1. The Dark Age Catholic version of Hell
2. The New Catholic version of Hell
3. Nether World
NO BIBLE HELL
Which Hell do you believe in? From where did Hell come?
How Hell was put into and is being kept in the Bible
MORE THAN TWELVE
PROTESTANT VERSION OF HELL
SOME OF THE MANY DIVISIONS OF THE PROTESTANT VERSIONS OF
HELL. After much conflict among the reformers, most Protestants accepted much of the early Catholic version of going to Heaven or Hell one by one at death, before and without the judgment or the Resurrection, but without Purgatory. Unconditional immortality, which is the foundation on which Hell stands, was accepted mostly due to Calvin and those that followed him winning out over Martin Luther and his followers. If they had accepted Luther's views on immortality, there would be no foundation for Hell. Many Protestants believe the soul of all who do not accept Christ will instantly be transported to Hell at the death of the body before the resurrection and judgment day. God deliberately chooses to make them suffer and feel the pain without any letup forever. The saved will go to their eternal home in Heaven at death [an instant rapture]. The Westminster Confession says, "The souls of the righteous...are received unto the highest heavens...the soul of the wicked are cast into Hell." Does God judge them at death, them maybe thousands of years later, takes them out of Heaven and Hell to judge them a second time at the resurrection to see whether He made a mistake? Many believe an unbaptized baby will not be saved. This version is still believed by many today, even by many that say they are looking for the rapture; but an opposition to belief in Hell is rapidly growing in the Protestant churches. From the Protestant Reformation unto now there have been many changes and new Protestant versions of Hell.
[1] THE CALVIN VERSION OF HELL: The given no chance Hell. An early Protestant Version with a god that made most of mankind knowing he is going to torment them in Hell forever, and there is nothing they can do to keep from going to Hell. This god made them just so he could torment them forever as their creed says, "To His good pleasure." No amount of preaching or teaching can change the number that shall be in this Hell not even by one person. The Westminster Confession says, "By the decree of God, for the Manifestation of is glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto Everlasting Life, and others foreordained unto everlasting death." Some Protestants still believe this version of Hell that their god made most of mankind just so he could torment 212
them for eternality but it is not near as poplar as it was a few years ago. Those who say they are orthodox Protestants who do not believe the Calvin Version of Hell may far out number those who do.
[2] THE JONATHAN EDWARDS VERSION OF HELL: Also early Protestant
Version and there was a time when most Protestants believed this view of Hell but now only a few believe it. There are about as many variations of the Jonathan Edwards version as there are preachers who preach it. Most taught God had given Hell over to Satan and Satan will roast most of mankind forever and torment them however he wishes to. Some have demons peeling off the burning flash of those in Hell with God making sure they keep it up forever. Some have God doing the tormenting of Satan, the demons, and man, with God forever pouring in fire and brimstone, and thousands of other ways of tormenting with each preacher trying to out do the others in telling of the horrors of Hell.
Each one trying to make the god of Hell more evil then the others have. Jonathan Edwards said God "will crush their blood out and make it fly, so that it will sprinkle his garment and stain all his raiment." They never tell how they know such details. Put all their horrors together and it would take many books to tell then all. Some of them get very specific with the details of the torment. These "Hellfire" preachers are not as poplar as they once was and their audience is much smaller. It is unimportant to them if they have no Bible for their Hell or its horrors; the badly mistranslated King James Version is all they need to make their Hell believable to many with whatever kind of torment they want to put in it. Some believers of the Calvin version also believe this version and mix the two together. There is not much unity of belief among the Protestants. Today, in almost any church if the preacher started preached sermons about Hell that was like the one's Edwards preached he would be out of work very soon.This version of Hell makes there be something like two kingdoms or two universes after the judgment with Satan over one with most of mankind and God over a few. Both God and Satan would have eternal power in their kingdom and the division between them, between Heaven and Hell would mean God would not ever have a victory over evil. The god Edward believed in would have no problem with tormenting the lost, he would love it.
[3] THE GRAPHIC VERSION OF HELL: The sinners will be tormented in the parts of their bodies that sinned.
"In short, whatever member of the body sinned, that member would be punished more than any other in hell...In Christian literature we find blasphemers hanging by their tongues.
Adulterous women who plaited their hair to entice men dangle over boiling mire by their...hair."
William Crockett, "Four Views on Hell" Page 46.
[4] SATAN WILL BE DOING THE TORMENTING VERSION OF HELL:
Satan and his angels will be doing the tormenting, but they could only be executing the will of God that the lost be tormented for they could not torment the lost without God letting them. This view was believed by most in the Dark Age and by most Jonathan Edwards preachers who often speak of ―the devil Hell‖ as though Hell was a place that belonged to Satan. Most Protestants have now abandon the view of Satan and his demons doing the tormenting, but I remember that this was believed by most when I was a child and was what most Protestants believed at that time. Many painting in museums and churches show Satan and his demons roasting those in Hell and tormenting them in every way the painter could think up. Satan and his angels are never punished. In this version of Hell Satan and evil spirits are forever over "Hell" and will forever be able to torment most of mankind. Instead of being punished, they will have forever triumphed 213
over God and will forever have a kingdom of their own where they will work their evil on mankind as they please to and as it gives them pleasure.
[5] GOD WILL BE DOING THE TORMENTING VERSION OF HELL: Satan
and his angels will be tormented by God just as all the lost of mankind will. There has been a major change by many Protestants from Satan to God doing the tormenting.
[6] THE METAPHORICAL VIEW OF BOTH HEAVEN AND HELL: We are
not told what Heaven and Hell will literally be like. This view of Hell is that we are told in pictures that tell us Heaven will be a place of beauty more than anything on this earth and that Hell will be worse than anything on this earth. Because we cannot understand what Heaven will really be like, we are given the picture of a city with gold streets and pearl gates to picture for us its great beauty and value, but it will not literally be made of gold, pearls, or of anything that we have on this earth. The metaphorical view of is Hell is pictured as a place of fire, but it will not literally have fire as we know it, or darkness as we know it. In this view none of the literal torments of the Jonathan Edwards Version are possible for they are all things of this earth that will not be in Hell. This version of "Hell"
seems to be growing rapidly for it is looked on as a way to make God less evil, but in fact it does not for whatever would be symbolized by being tormented by eternal fire would be just as bad as being eternally tormented by literal fire.
[7] BILLY GRAHAM’S MENTAL ANGUISH VERSION OF HELL: Hell is only
a state of mind. In "The World To Come" Page 300, Isaac Watts makes the worm be the conscience of a person eating on himself for all eternally. A survey by US News, January 2000, Page 47, says 53 percent of Americans believe Hell to be only mental anguish. This is an attempt by some to lessen the negative effect of Hell making God cruel and sadistic, but the attempt is a complete failure. Replacing physical torment with mental anguish does nothing to change Hell by making the torment be less. Mental anguish can be worse than physical pain, and it would still be torment without end, and would still be God doing the tormenting. Billy Graham, who is an orthodox Protestant, would in no way been called orthodox by Calvin or Jonathan Edwards, nor would many others that believe Hell is only mental anguish as he does. The old orthodox is some times the very opposite of the new orthodox. In the mental anguish version of Hell for sins after death, the sinner punishes himself after death; it is not God that punishes him.
Alexander Campbell said, "The sinner's suffering by mental agony, produced by sin, greater than could be caused by material fire." "Five discourses on Hell" 1848. Then he said, "We do not maintain that men are punished eternally for sins committed in this life only. The analysis of the sufferings of a future retribution, which we have just given, is itself sufficient evidence of this fact; for the indulgence of voluntary depravity is itself both sin and punishment. As a consequence of past sins, the sinner has formed the habit of sinning. It is a law of man's nature, that habit creates both a tendency to certain acts, and a facility in their performance. As the result of the habit of sinning, formed in this life, a tendency to repeat acts of sin is carried on the sinner into a future world; and every such act repeated in that world not only perpetuates, but increases the tendency to further acts of the same kind: and thus, as by every repeated act the tendency to sin is increased, and as every act also brings with it its own punishment, so, by the laws of man's mental and moral nature, the sinner's progress in both sin and suffering in a future world, is like that of a falling body, which increases its velocity as the square of the distance increase through which it falls. There is, therefore, just as little probability that a sinner, left to himself in a future world, should repent and turn to God, as that a falling body should arrest itself in its downward course, and ascend to the elevation from which it fell...surely the assumption that out doctrine supposes that God punishes sinners eternally for sins committed in this brief and frail life is 214
wholly gratuitous." Alexander Campbell, "Five discourses on Hell," Page 65, April 9, 1848, Daniel Davies Publisher.
Not many members of the Christian Church and the church of Christ any longer believe as Alexander Campbell but some Protestants still do. This version of Hell makes even the worse sinners able to repent and change in this lifetime, but after death sinners will go on sinning but not one of them will ever be able to repent. It makes there be no end to sin.
[8] C. S. LEWIS’S THE ALMOST PLEASANT HELL: In Great Divorce C. S.
Lewis pictures Hell as not black but only a little gray almost pleasant place where those in it can take bus trips into Heaven for the day and return to Hell. See ―The Destruction Of the Finally Impenitent‖ by Clark H. Pinnock at:
http://www.abccoggc.org.jrad/volume2/issue1/jrad_v02.1_art2.htm
There is an almost constant rationalizing of the doctrine of Hell to make the God that made it less evil
[9] PROTESTANT TRADITIONALIST VERSIONS OF HELL: Most who say
they are orthodox and traditionalist believes the lost will be kept alive with some kind of punishment, but beyond this there is little agreement among them. Some believe much as did Jonathan Edwards and Calvin that there will be torment beyond anything that we can now know of and others who utterly repudiate both Calvin‘s and Edward's Hell and only believe that there will be some kind of eternal punishment, but it may be nothing more then a little mental anguish or just being deprived of all good. Others are at all points between the two even when they are in the same denomination. From the top (the Calvin version) to its bottom (eternity existing but being deprived of all good, to forever lose everything that is good), in those who call themselves "traditionalists" there are a wide range of views; yet, they all say they are orthodox and traditionalist! Orthodox is a big blanket and growing bigger all the time. Even so, few if any who are orthodox and traditionalist believe the same and there is a world of difference in what is orthodox in the Protestants churches. Many who say they are orthodox do not believe in once saved always saved, infant baptism, Augustine's view on predestination, the millennium, and countless other differences in what is traditional and orthodox. Although they cannot agree among themselves over what is traditional, they attack all who do not believe in one of their many versions of "Hell" for not being orthodox or traditional and nonetheless accept many as being orthodox who believes in an entirely different "Hell" and even accept Premillennial which has many who do not believe in any version of Hell, or believe that Hell will be on this earth and will last for only a short time.
[10] PROTESTANT PREMILLENNIAL VERSIONS OF HELL: From all the
information I can find there are many more Protestants who believe in some form of Premillennialism than not. Premillennial variations found in the Protestants churches are pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, post-tribulation, partial-rapture, many mini-raptures, already past rapture, the tribulation period, historic Premillennialism, Post Millennialist, Dispensationalist, and many more. Most Premillennial versions of Hell are somewhat similar to either the Seventh-Day Advent Version of Hell or the Church of God Version of Hell. See "Seventh-Day Advent Version of Hell" and "Church of God (and others) Version of Hell" below. Many of the Premillennial versions of Hell are far from being what is thought of as being orthodox, but most all Premillennialists are thought of as being Protestant, orthodox and traditional.
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It may come as a surprise to many that those who say they are orthodox Protestant but do not believe in Hell as a place of eternal torment that there are more who say that are orthodox Protestants who do believe Hell to be eternal torment than there are orthodox Protestants who do believe Hell to be a place of eternal torment. When US
New says 53 percent of Americans believes Hell to be only mental anguish, many of that 53 percent are orthodox Protestant and this 53 percent is in addition to the many Protestant Premillennialists who do not believe Hell to be a place of eternal torment.
When some say that is only Jehovah's Witnesses teaching, they seem to be blind to the fact that this is the teaching by far more than half of the orthodox Protestants and the number of orthodox Protestants that do not believe in the Jonathan Edwards or Ca