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   It is better to be in the truth then to swallow a lie.   
      
   >Many Bibles translate the OT word "sheol" as hell.(or  just leave it   
   >as "sheol") And it talks about people dying and going to sheol. So   
   >what is sheol?   
   Answer; the grave as the early OTperiod hebrews defined it..   
      
   Friend james has been corrected before on this jw vatican lack of hebrew   
   change in thought on this topic.  He has been givin a web jewish reference   
   source; ignored and unread of course.  He is forbidden to consult info   
   contradicting the jw vatican's line.   
      
   In the first part of the OT books of Moses it meant a dark isolated place   
   were everyone went after death.  By the end of the OT period it meant a two   
   part place, one for punishment of the unrighteous and "Abrahams bosom for   
   the righteous.  The latter a place of peace awaiting reserection when the   
   Messiah came.  This change is known from jewish commentary on the topic as   
   it happened .   
      
   The latter is exactly the one used to describe in Christ's parable the   
   place of the rich man;and the begger who was in Abraham's bosom.   
      
   Friend james will tell us, as he has before, that was just a parable and   
   doesn't mean anything.  It didn't describe a real situation.  Smile, a jw   
   vatican word dance, no?  Few if any of His parables were of specific   
   events; all did use info common to jews of the 1st century to make His   
   point in the parables.  The one above used info all jews knew.  If it   
   didn't it would be nonsens to listeners.  The jewish resource above   
   confirms the example info He used was indeed 1st century thinking on the   
   aftelife.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)