KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

culture. The new 'Version' of the facts is not so ’New', but represents an historically heathen picture of the afterlife. The Assyrian culture introduced the idea of hades as an intermediate state. They called it the Elysian or Happy Fields and described it as having 'silver skies', 'resplendent courts'—'an abode of blessedness'. Their female goddess Ishtar descended into Hades seeking Tammuz and found it a place of gates and shadows. Such "cunningly devised fables" abound in world literature. The Egyptian Hades was called 'Amenti', a place of dreamless sleep. Inhabitants did not remain long in this 'Land of Bliss', but moved quickly to Amk, the exit gate. Scandinavian mythology tells of Frigga's son, Bal-dur, who found himself upon death, in hades , seated on a stone, reading. In Greek mythology's Prometheus , Hercules, the Sun god descends into Hades' cave of Initiation. Aeschylus wrote that this 'Meadow of Hades' was the place where both good and evil people were purified by doing good works.

New Age ' Hades'

Thanks to the new bible versions, New Age chieftains like

Lola Davis can now say:

We now know that there is no 'down there' where there is a tangible hell. 10 New Agers cling to the 'new version' of hades as a second

chance.

Through the soul in Hades, having awakened to its unfortunate state, desires a change, it can attain such a change through reincarnation. 11 New Agers join ranks with the NIV, NASB, NKJV and Jehovah Witnesses in replacing the 'torments of hell’ with, as Blavatsky called them, the "seven mansions of Hades." She defines the 'new version' of hell as follows: