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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...

Greek occupation period (325 to 60 BCE) the influence of Plato and his concept of hell, as well as the use of Tartarus and hades in Greek myths as a finality after death. Finally, we will need to note the Jewish concepts of resurrection which appear in the Little Apocalypse of Isaiah 24–27. We will examine each of these later. However, two other important observations about Sheol must be made. First; when the Hebrew canon was translated into the Greek Septuagint
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