The word "hell" is used 55 times in the Bible. It comes from four different Greek and Hebrew words with three different meanings.
Hell is also translated as hades or sheol whose primary meaning is the grave."Hell" comes from the Greek word 'tartarus' which means a dark abyss. In 2 Pe. 2:4, "hell" refers to the dark world to which Satan's angels were cast down when they were expelled from heaven to this earth.Rev. 12:9.
In the New Testament, "hell" comes from the Greek word gehenna, which refers to that final lake of fire into which the wicked will be cast alive in bodily form with all their members after the second resurrection at the end of the 1,000 years as found in Rev. 20.
The English dictionary define "hell" as, to be holed up such that whatever is helled or holed up, cannot come out.
The discovery of black holes in our universe has triggered an intense debate on the physical interpretation of hell.
Stephen Hawking one of the greatest scientists of our time, has contributed immensely to the understanding of black holes. A "black hole" is a region of spacetime from which gravity is so strong that it prevent anything, including light, from escaping.
Around a black hole,right at the centre, gravity is so strong that anything, including stars, once they get to this point, they cannot come back, making it a point of no return.
In his book, "A Brief History of Time," Stephen Hawking explains that the gravity at the centre of these massive holes is so strong that it crashes matter in its wake. It is said that if one was trapped in this hole, he would be trapped in time for ever and would be literally turned into a spaghetti.
So, we are left wondering if this is the physical manifestation of the "hell" of the bible...
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