The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1920-04-17
(By RICHARD j. HlLLD
Continued from Last week.

we nave Icacncd tnc pOlnl on the
stream Of time where every earnest
hearted person should say in The
language of ST. Paul. Let God be
true, though it prove every man d
liar" Rom. 3: ~ Then let rs sci
tie the question according TO the
word of God. THE dead praise not
the Lord, neither they that go down
in silence" Psalms ll5: 10 Ills
(nan'S) breath gocih forth, he re
turns to the dust; in that very day
his thoughts perish" psalms 1l5:
4, For the living know that they
shall die; but the dead know not
anything, neither have they any
more a reward; for the memory of
them is forgotten. Also their love,
and their hatred, and their envy is
now perished; neither have they any
more a portion forever in anything
that is under the sun. What socVcr
thy hand lindcth to do, do with thy
might; for there is no work, nor
device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom
in the grave where thou gceSt."
tEccl. 9: ), &, 100 Why should in
tclligent people pay large sums of
mercy to priests (who are nothing
hut sinful mem to pray prayers for
persons in this condition? The
psalmiSl says, "ln death there is no
! remembrance of thee, in the grave
who shall give Thee thanks (Psa.
&: -.
But | hear someone ask, "ls not
there a HELP" We answer, sure
there is. But the Bible He'll is not
a place of conscious torment, by
forked tail devils or otherwise. The
Hell mentioned in the Bible is The
condition of death, oblivion, the
tomb, the grave, or in other words
il is Il condition of non-eXistence.
The only word in the Old Testament
translated hell is the Hebrew
word "sheol." 1t is translated more
times grave" than it is translated
hell and means the same thing in
each instance. We give few sam
pies.
Jacob, weighted down with grief
because of the suppose death of his
son Joseph. said, 81 will go down to
my son, Joseph in sheol (helD
mourning" (Gen. 81: 35). Later
when requested to send Benjamin to
Egypt, he said, "My son Benjamin
shall not go down with you to Egypt
fer if evil befalls him YOU will
bring down my gray hairs with sor-
row to (sheoD hell" Gen. 43: 38.
If hell means conscious torment in
fire, we ask: "How long would the
graN hairs of Jacob last in such a
place? Would God make the gray
hairs immortal in order to torment
them?"
job was a good and godly man.
After he had suffered the loss of all
his earthly possessions, his children
killed, his wife became his enemy,
his neighborS taunted him because
Of his suffering, his body putrid with
running sores, suffering bodily pam
aud mental anguish. in this awful
condition he prayed that God might
send him to hell. 30, that thou
wouldst hide me in hell (sheoD IN
til thy wrath be passed" dob IA:
l3) Does any sane person believe
lhal Job prayed that he might 90 to
q place to be lormentd and suffer
more agony than he was already
5uilering? II you were in his posi-
lion would YOU ask TO go to a place
where YOU would be tormented foc
ever? Job then defines hell. He
says "lf ! wait, hell is my house. l..
have made my bed in the darkness,
Our rest is in the dust" Dob 17;i
1870 II darkness, there could b.
no fire there. Again, he (Job) said
man, His sons come to
honor and he knoweth it not, they
ae brought low and he perceiveth
il not" dob Il: 2D.
Jehovah, through his prophets,
f,retold that Jesus would go to hell, .
and he did, lie went to the same
he'll to which the other dead go, Ind
le was dead until the third day,
when God raised him. Referring to .
finn the PsalmiSt wrote, Thou wilt /
.oi leave my soul in hell" (Psa. /
ID: 100. This text is quoted with
by The apostle Peter IN
a. Is ,; ~. If Hell is place of con-
,CouS torment eternal in duration,
hen il would have been impossible
or Jesus to have gotten out; where
- the scriptures concluSively prove
,hal he was raised on the third day.
The New Testament deals with the
same hell. AS We know, the New
- lament is translated from the
Greek and the Greek word "hades"
means tn, same rs the Hebrew
word "Sheol." In the Revised Yer
len of Ire New Testament, the
Greek word "hadeS" has been left
Evidently the trans
l&iorS were ashamed to translate il
hell after the meaning of eternal
torment had been attached IN tho