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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)