Sheol was a separate concept. The idea that, when you die, you just go to rest. There wasn't a concept of a beneficial or detrimental afterlife in Judaic custom; God rewarded your piety on earth and everyone went to the same afterlife when they died.
The linked bits refer to the JKV which immediately puts me off to them as there's been much better translated texts since then.
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Added bonus: it's the version used by most Evangelicals
Is it? I'll admit I haven't gone through the bookcases of many Evangelicals but, given that the KJV isn't the translation used by most Protestant denominations, I'd be surprised to learn that most Evangelicals use it. I'd have guessed the New English Version or something.
As for Hell itself:
"It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out" -
Mark 9:43 "Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." -
Matthew 10:28 "How will you escape being condemned to hell?" -
Matthew 23:33 "But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him." -
Luke 12:15 Now, if you want to substitute Sheol or whatever other word for "Hell" in those passages, feel free. If you think that substitution means that Jesus wasn't
really warning of a detrimental afterlife as a consequence of not obeying God, I don't know what to tell you.
Edited, Jan 11th 2012 11:56am by Jophiel