Thomas Williams

Name: The Great Salvation — Proposition 22
Author: Thomas Williams

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“The Great Salvation — Proposition 22”, is a work by Thomas Williams. It explores elements such as hell, Gehenna and hades.

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 22

“ The testimonies in which the word is used indicate that, not only was Gehenna a place of judicial punishment in the past, but in that same place will the righteous judgments of God be poured upon the transgressors. The worms that preyed upon the carcasses in the past have long since devoured them; the unquenchable fire that burned has devoured it’s victims. So when the worms shall again prey upon the bodies of the wicked and the fire burn, destruction will be the inevitable result. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 22

“ They were assured that God would destroy the wicked, both soul and body in Gehenna; and that it was better for them to enter into life maimed than to suffer death and the destruction of Gehenna. If you notice the use of the word life in some of the quotations you will see that it is not a question of their going to live in a place of happiness on the one hand and to live in a place of misery on the other. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 22

“ You will see, dear reader, that the meaning of the words "The worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched" is not that the bodies upon which the worms prey are preserved alive--not that they will burn and yet never burn. The fact that worms are represented as preying is proof that their victims have been put to death and that to be totally devoured is the certain end; and the fact that the fire is not quenched is proof, not that it’s victims will be preserved, but that they will be devoured.
Following are the passages where the word hell in the common version is from Gehenna:
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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 22

“ Jas. 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell (Gehenna) .
Now you will see from these testimonies that no support is given by them to the theory of eternal preservation in hell fire as popularly believed. The Jews knew that to be "in danger of Gehenna" was to be in danger of an ignoble death, a devouring of worms or a consuming of fire in the detested valley of Gehenna, instead of even after death being allowed a burial. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 22

“ But we, without the slightest reservation, condemn the translators; for they have evidently endeavored to observe the true sense of the word Sheol, and to uphold the traditional meaning of hell at the expense of truth and uniformity. Had sheol been uniformly translated pit or grave or the state of the dead, or even the mansions of the dead, no such absurd idea as that of a place of conscious torment could ever have been associated with it." Bible versus Tradition, page 188.
"Hades means literally that which is darkness. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 22

“ Psa. 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell (sheol) , neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (Peter uses this to prove that Christ was raised from the grave.--Acts 2:27, 30-32) .
From these testimonies it is clear that the inspired writers had no idea of a place of eternal torment being represented by the word sheol. Just substitute "the place of eternal torment" for the word sheol in these texts and you will see how absurd is the theory of modern theology. ”

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Thomas Williams, The Great Salvation — Proposition 22

“ The Hebrew word sheol is translated HELL, properly as a general thing, if intended to mean the same as the old Saxon word hell, the covered receptacle of all the dead, where the good and bad repose together in a state of UNCONSCIOUSNESS ”

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