KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

As seen in the above scriptures, hell was not created for man, . .hell hath enlarged herself' (Isaiah 5:14) to accommodate those of mankind who reject the love of God. The existence of hell does not diminish the love or loveliness of God. It speaks only of the rabid villainy of creatures—Satan, his angels, and mankind, who as Matthew records, could "spit in his face" (Matthew 26:67), the face of their creator. Often the unwillingness of man to face his own culpability and sinfulness prompts him to saddle God with the burden of blame for the existence of hell. Truthfully, hell pronounces the malfeasance of the creatures, not of the creator. The doctrine of hell is an affront to proud mankind. Hell's presentation in the bible can hardly be extinguished, but recent versions have diluted it by submerging the reader in a welter of words, substituting 'death', 'grave', 'sheol', 'hades' and 'the depths' for the word, 'hell'. Using five additional ambiguous words fractures the impact. The shatterment flies in the face of clarity, obscuring God's warning. Descending progressively downward from "death," to the "grave," then to "sheol" or "hades," then "the depths," and finally to "hell," the NIV offers a station, waiting to prove the afterlife theory of every philosophy and cult afloat. but

Hell or Death

Agnostics, atheists, humanists, Jehovah Witnesses and a variety of cults believe eternal death, not hell, lies beyond the last breath. Again, Blavatsky dictates and the NIV and its editors comply—replacing the word 'hell' with 'death'.

LUCIFERIAN

NIV EDITOR

"Whenever the word 'hell' occurs in the translation. . . it is unfortunate. . .in the original text it stands. . . death. . .Hell and its sovereign are both inventions of Christianity."1 Blavatsky

"In the face of these theological differences, a number of modern translations simply do not translate the word. . . [Hell] may well stand for eternal death."2 R. Laird Harris