![]() ![]() You exist with just a small amount of “spirit energy” in that cold shadowy realm longing to communicate and interact with the people you once knew, but can only muster a weak whisper, a hazy translucent image, a sound of footsteps, a certain odor, a tiny orb of light, the occasional movement of an object a few inches, etc. You retain your intelligence and memory of being a human being, but cannot interact with the physical world you see around you like humans do every day. It would already be a “hell” of terrible frustration to be trapped in that dimension. It might be the “chains of darkness” realm that scripture talks about - a shadowy dark dimension inhabited by immaterial souls with very little interaction between that dimension and our physical realm. What I propose is another “dimension” - a “spirit realm” that coexists right alongside our physical realm. The Old Testament Hebrew word is “Sheol,” while the New Testament Greek word is “Hades” for the intermediate realm of departed spirits, which was often thought to be some type of subterranean holding area. ![]() At that event, scripture speaks of “Death and Hell” being thrown into the “Lake of Fire which is the Second Death.” When I studied the subject myself, that sounds a lot more like the “Second Death” spoke of in Revelations after the great White Throne Judgement. In my personal Christian belief system, the souls of genuine Christians go immediately at death to be with Jesus, or as the Apostle Paul put it, “… to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” What about all the souls of non-Christians? I grew up in a church that taught that the souls of the unsaved immediately went to hell upon physical death to suffer everlasting punishment. If they are not angels or demons (I believe in both), what are they? I’ve found a personal interpretation that works for me, and it involves the departed spirits of deceased individuals. As a devout Christian, I have noticed that many Christians have a hard time integrating those type of experiences into their theology.
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