... no moral distinctions, the word 'hell,' as understood today, is not a happy translation." The meaning given today to the word "hell" is that portrayed in Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost, which meaning is completely foreign to the original definition of the word. The idea of a "hell" of firey torment, dates back long before Dante or Milton. The Grollier Universal Encyclopedia ... texts in which these original words appear and, with open mind, thereby to arrive at an understanding of their true significance. So, what is the 'Lake of Fire" of Revelation chapter 20? First l...

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