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Eliminating Satan and Hell: Affirming a Compassionate Creator-God is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, V. Donald Emmel—a university pastor at San Jose State—describes his theories regarding Satan and hell, painting a picture that differs from the traditional understanding of eternal punishment. Emmel’s approach is intended to reassure those “who have been taught to fear the myths of Satan and hell.” He argues that, through misunderstandings and mistranslations, many see God as a...

nor even of Yahweh, but by the “angels of punishment” who will be the punishers. But we must emphasize that 1 Enoch was rejected as part of the authoritative record of God’s revelation and thus was never included in the Hebrew canon nor the Apocrypha. While in 1 Enoch there were further shifts in the meanings of both Sheol and hassantan, in the Sybilline Oracles (ca. 200–100 BCE) we find a joining of the Greek Tartarus and the Jewish gehenna. The original
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