KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Hades was quite a different place from our region of eternal damnation and might be termed rather an intermediate state of purification. 12 When new versions do not translate hades, because they want to "leave each reader to decide for themselves" what is meant, they give consent to the fraudulent fables of the New Age. Bible verses on 'hades' now give voice to the unicorn, a popular New Age symbol of Amduscias, the grand duke of Hades. He represents:

[T]he seventh division of Avichi of the Astral world. . . [It] is the only hell that exists. . .not eternal. [I]t is a purgatorial state.13

New Version Editors, Purgatory, ' Hades' and Hell The open door to hades in new versions merely vents the views of their editors. 'New' Greek editor F.J.A. Hort called purgatory, "a great and important truth." 14 His American counterpart Philip Schaff believed in an "extension of the period of grace for non- Christians beyond the limits of the grave."is NIV editors believe men merely lie in the grave. Other NT. 'editors' believe as follows.

BELIEF

N.T. EDITION EDITOR

Origen Hell is 'figurative'. The devil and fallen angels will exit hell and return to heaven.16

Aleph & B Manuscripts 'New' Greek N.T., A.S.V. (NASB and Living Bible) 'New' Greek N.T. J.B. Phillips Translation 'New' Greek N.T.

He protested, "against a gross materialistic theory of hell" and points his audience to "the greatest of divines. . . Origen."17 Hell is "figurative."18

Schaff

Hort

Phillips Does hell exist? Phillips says, "I seriously doubt this."19 Westcott Hell is "not the place of punishment of the guilty" but Hades is "the common abode of departed spirits."20