Post by alexanderwinslow on Aug 10, 2013 19:49:40 GMT -5
Christendom is to blame for the generalization of the word Christian, in the same way it is to blame for many of its man-made doctrines such as the Trinity, immortality of the soul and its portrayal of hell; which is a word used to blanket four other words with three separate meanings unrelated to their own fearful meaning.
Young’s Analytical Concordance to The Holy Bible clarifies this:
1 Hell Hebrew Sheol meaning the common grave. 2 Hell Greek Hades meaning the common grave. 3 Hell Hebrew Gehenna meaning the second death. 4 Hell Greek Tartarus meaning angelic incarceration.
Christendom is to blame for the generalization of the word Christian, in the same way it is to blame for many of its man-made doctrines such as the Trinity, immortality of the soul and its portrayal of hell; which is a word used to blanket four other words with three separate meanings unrelated to their own fearful meaning.
Young’s Analytical Concordance to The Holy Bible clarifies this:
1 Hell Hebrew Sheol meaning the common grave. 2 Hell Greek Hades meaning the common grave. 3 Hell Hebrew Gehenna meaning the second death. 4 Hell Greek Tartarus meaning angelic incarceration.
Alexander
Strictly speaking, the word "Tartarus", which is a noun, is not in the Bible. The word that Peter used in 2 Peter 2:4 is not a noun, but a verb, which is often transliterated as tartaroo, which designates the act of being degraded, put in a lower position. By translating the word tartaroo as "cast them down to Tartarus", the impression of Tartarus as being the lower regions of hades is presented, leaving support for the idea that there is a lower region of hades called Tartarus, and idea that the Jews adopted and adapted from the Greeks, and which later Christians adopted and adapted from Jewish tradition. Peter, in using the verb, tartaroo, however, was not speaking of a compartment of hades.
Post by alexanderwinslow on Aug 13, 2013 21:06:02 GMT -5
Hello Reslight,
Yes Tartarus is also translated as Tartaroo, however, the correct understanding of this is that it is actually not a place but a condition; a state of restriction. I wrote an article on this many years ago under the title Angels and Demons, which brought to the attention of the reader that never again would the angelic sons of God who disobeyed in the days of Noah; be able to take on human form and co-habit with the women on earth. Today they continue to plague mankind in the form which has given rise to the idea of ghosts, poltergeists and the like just a small point.