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The 2025 Edition of Gehenna Revisited will be available in a few days

It has taken me much longer than I anticipated to complete the updated 2025 edition. There were grammatical issues I'd never noticed. It is difficult for me to proofread myself. I also wanted to tighten my arguments, and that has taken quite a bit of time. I have rewritten some sections to clarify a few of my arguments in the book. I have also rewritten the back-cover blurb. The cover has some minor changes as well. 

Here is the new back-cover blurb: 

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? Will you follow “Tradition” or “Scripture?” 

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 is available now. Read it. Wrestle with it. And never look at hell the same way again.  

That's the end of the blurb. That last part, "is available now" is not accurate, but it will be in a few days. 

I had posted on a Wes Huff video entitled, "Wes Huff Deserves Hell." My comment was that not even I deserved eternal conscious torment in hell. There was a reply to my comment asking how I had determined that I did not deserve hell. I tried to answer in full several times, but YouTube would immediately remove the reply. That happens to me frequently.

Here is the comment YouTube would not post:  

Nobody deserves ECT for a life that the Bible describes as a puff of smoke. The Bible says the wage for sin is death, Romans 6:23. That's what I deserve. Jesus said in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." That's pretty straight forward. If we believe in Christ, we have everlasting life. If we don't, we perish. Perish means perish, not live forever in hell. Hell does not exist in the Bible. Sheol in the OT is a grave. Hades and Tartarus in the NT are Greek mythology. Gehenna is a valley in Israel with a bad reputation. Those are the words translators love to render as hell. It doesn't exist. Hell comes to us through pagan myths and mistranslations in both the Hebrew and the Greek. Most Christians point to the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man for their proof, and that is straight out of Greek mythology. And, in it, Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for their belief in the Greek Hades. His point in the parable is this: if Hades existed, it would be filled with Pharisees. It would be filled with corrupt, religious hypocrites. God does not run an eternal chamber of horrors called hell.

Because that comment would not make it past the YouTube moderators, I finally explained that I had tried to reply, but the comments would immediately disappear. I ended up stating that we are created in God's image, and part of that is the ability to understand the difference between justice and injustice. Eternal Conscious Torment in hell, for a life the Bible describes as a puff of smoke, is not justice. It is infinitely more extreme than using Mount Everest to hold down a feather. 

(That last sentence is a quote from the end of my book, Gehenna Revisited). 

Once again, I will clearly state my view on ECT in hell: God is not a sadist who runs an eternal chamber of horrors called hell. Christians need to stop slandering the character of God. Hades and Tartarus are pagan mythology. Sheol in the Old Testament was a grave. Gehenna in both the Old and New Testaments is merely a valley near Jerusalem. As I said, translators love to render those words as "hell," but hell is not a biblical doctrine. It is a man-made one, and it comes from pagan sources - not the Bible. The teaching torments hearts and minds, slanders the character of God, and is not found in the Bible. 


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