Tartarus is the compartment of Hades which is reserved for "the angels which kept not their first estate (Jude 6). In Tartarus they are bound with 'chains of everlasting darkness". It is also called "the bottomless pit", and it is the place where fallen angels are reserved unto judgment (Jude 13). It is the place which the Bible calls "the blackness of darkness". This always means conscious torment (Look up and compare Lk. Nobody here is unconscious or annihilated. "Consciousness" is required for such suffering to occur. No amount of doctrinal or textual twisting can remove the suffering of this place.
All three of these Greek words mean "Pain", "Torture", "Extreme Suffering", "Torment". The people in Paradise are not in "torments" and the people in "Torments" are not in paradise, but both are in Hades / Sheol (the abode of the unseen dead). No one can traverse "the great gulf" from one side to the other. This compartment of Hades / Sheol is across the Great gulf that separates Paradise from the Torments. Torments (basanos, basanismos, basanidzo Gk.) But it is not the final abode of believers.Ĥ. It is a place of heavenly bliss and rest. It is a temporary holding place for disembodied souls awaiting the resurrection of their bodies. Jesus told the believing thief that he would be there with Christ himself. It is a middle eastern word indicating the courtyard of a palace, the inner gated entryway. This is one of the compartments of Hades/Sheol. Nobody in Sheol or Hades is unconscious, or annihilated. All the dead in Sheol or Hades, are conscious, and are either in the "paradise" of "happiness and blessedness", or they are in the "torments" of "pain and suffering". These words always indicate "a dwelling place for departed souls", as any reputable lexicon will show. These words never refer to "The common grave of mankind", as the Jehovah's Witnesses falsely teach (See Reasoning's From The Scriptures, Watchtower Society, 1985 page 169). Always a burial site, a specific location.īoth words always mean "The Realm of The Unseen Dead". In this place all the dead are "sleeping" in the dust of the earth. In QEBER / MNEMION "the dead know nothing".
They are words which refer to the actual location of physically dead bodies. These words should not be translated as "hell". They never mean "the cessation of being". Both words mean "Grave" or "Burying Place".
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