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Digitial Version of Gehenna Revisited - 2025 Edition - Free June 14-15, 2025

What if everything you've been told about hell... is wrong?

Not according to tradition. 

Not according to theology books. 

According to the Bible itself. 

The updated 2025 edition of "Gehenna Revisited" is here—and it’s not pulling punches. This isn’t speculation. This isn't eisegesis. It’s a verse-by-verse, word-by-word examination of every passage tied to the modern doctrine of hell. You’ve heard that the soul is immortal. That punishment is eternal. That God created a fiery place of torment for most of humanity. But what if that’s not what the Bible says? “Gehenna Revisited" shows how mistranslations, myths, and centuries of theological baggage have distorted the message of Scripture. It’s time to rethink hell—honestly, fearlessly, Biblically. 

The 2025 edition of "Gehenna Revisited" has been expanded, and it's available now. Read it. Wrestle with it. And never look at hell the same way again. 

Truth doesn't fear examination... it demands it. 

Gehenna Revisited: Rebutting Francis Chan is now available in all formats: digital, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook. If you download the ebook while it's free, you will be able to buy the audiobook at a significant discount, and I don't think you need an Audible subscription to do that. If you already own the digital version of Gehenna Revisited, you can also purchase the audiobook at a substantial discount.

I challenge skeptics to at least read chapters one and eight for old and new apologetics arguments for the Christian faith, the Bible, and the existence of the God. Namely, the God of the Bible. 

"Gehenna Revisited" examines the Bible and endeavors to prove that eternal conscious torment in hell is not supported by Scripture and does not exist in the original languages. The preponderance of Scripture teaches annihilation. "Gehenna Revisited" covers old ground and new, and it uncovers the main point of the Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man—if Hades existed, it would be filled with Pharisees. It would be filled with corrupt, religious hypocrites. Does God truly condemn His creation to eternal, conscious torment in hell, or have churches been teaching Greek mythology for centuries? 

"Erasing Hell," by Francis Chan and Dr. Preston Sprinkle, supports a traditional view of hell. "Gehenna Revisited" supports annihilation and discounts the traditional view of hell. This is a general rebuttal with an emphasis on Gehenna—not a point-by-point rebuttal. 

According to the Law of First Mention, the first usage of a word in Scripture establishes its meaning; that meaning remains unchanged in the mind of God throughout Scripture. The Bible says God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He does not change. The Bible also says God is Truth. Therefore, Truth is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Truth does not change. And the Truth is, in the beginning, God said the punishment for disobedience was death; sheol was the grave, and Gehenna was a valley outside of Jerusalem. If those things were true then, and Truth is unchanging, then those things are True now. 

Sheol and Gehenna, the primary words translated as “hell” in English translations, were never the mythological Hades of the Greeks. God forbade taking on the beliefs of the surrounding nations, and Hades is a Greek god and Greek mythology. If Jesus believed in the Hades of the Greeks, then He was guilty of taking on the beliefs of the surrounding nations—and that was something God forbade from the beginning. It was a grave sin. It was called adultery. And it was punishable by death. 

Not only did God condemn worshiping other gods and taking on the beliefs of the surrounding nations, He warned the Jewish people through Moses that those things would happen. When the Jewish Septuagint scholars translated sheol in the Hebrew Bible into Hades in the Greek translations, they introduced the concept of the mythological Greek Hades into the Scriptures. Jesus constantly condemned the religious leaders for their false teaching. If Jesus was culturally corrupted, as the Jewish leaders of His day were, and believed in the Greek Hades, then He was not the eternal, unchanging God of the Old Testament. If He was culturally corrupted and believed in the Greek Hades, then He was guilty of the very thing He forbade in the Old Testament. He would have been guilty of the sin of adopting the beliefs and gods of other nations. Jesus would no longer be God, and He would no longer be a sinless sacrifice for sin, if He truly believed in the mythological Hades of the Greeks.  

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