a) Human sacrifices offered to Baal & Moleck: 2 Chr 28:3; 33:6; 2 Ki 23:10; Jer 7:31; 19:2-6; 32:35

b) Some have speculated it was the garbage dump of Jerusalem at the time of Christ:

a) Some think Gehenna depicts annihililation, yet the fire itself is described as eternal

a) Unquenchable, eternal fire: Mk 9:43,45,47; Mt 5:22,29,30; 18:8,9; Jas 3:6

b) Eternal worms: Mk 9:48

a) Burn chaff with unquenchable fire Mt 3:12; Lk 3:17

b) Burn tares in furnace of fire: Mt 13:42,50

a) Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: Gen 19:24,28; (antitype of hell: Jude 7)

a) "Once a brimstone (sulfur) deposit ignites, it would melt & run in burning streams down the ravines spreading everywhere suffocating fumes the ordinary match" ISBE

b) "Torrents of brimstone" (fast moving flows): Isa 30:33

c) "Lake of fire" could also be a reference to lava from a volcano

a) indicates conscious existence in exile not annihilation

a) forever: Rev 14:11; 20:10

b) black darkness forever: Jude 13

c) Eternal: Mt 25:46 (heaven and hell alike)

a) Appointed to die once then comes judgement: Heb 9:27

b) Great gulf fixed between good and bad: Lk 16

a) Many and few lashes: Lk 12:47-48

b) Both lost but one judgement more tolerable than other: Mt 11:24

c) Hypocrites will receive "greater condemnation": Mk 12:40

d) Better for them if they had never been Christians: 2 Pe 2:20-21

a) The elder who runs off with another women will be punished more severely than any of the recent mass murder-rapists.

b) It is not a matter of how bad they sinned but the degree they knew it was sin.

a) It directly contradicts scripture: Lk 12:47-48; Mt 11:24; Mk 12:40; 2 Pe 2:20-21

b) It violates that there are in fact, as everyone recognizes, varying degrees of sin in a practical way.

c) It violates everything the Old Testament law taught about varying degrees of punishment for varying sins.

d) It violates the principle of every civil/criminal code in the world by punishing all crimes identically. (Remember that most civil codes were built upon Judeo-Christian principles, the rest upon common sense.)

e) It violates everything human parents understand in raising children, (just try disciplining children the identical way for varying sins.)

f) It is patterned after "communism", where all get the same thing in spite of personal effort. It gives no incentive to excel. And no discouragement to sin the more!

g) It allows men to get the same reward for minimum effort. It condones, legislates and entrenches a mindset of mediocrity in the church. Statements like, "Hey what do we pay the preacher for!" is the fruit of this false doctrine! As one brother said, "This doctrine poisons the well-springs of zeal!"

h) It encourages Ketchersidism for if all men get the same reward, regardless of the extent of sin in each of their personal lives, then any one can see the close connection between, "We all get to heaven, regardless of our varying degrees of personal sin" AND "All the denominations get to heaven regardless of their varying degrees of doctrinal sin." (No one believes we are saved by either moral or doctrinal perfection!)

i) It is a gospel of Calvinism, where there is no grey, only black and white. Christians get to heaven, in spite of their degree of sin and are essentially, in a practical sense, eternally secure.

j) It is a gospel of Calvinism, because it makes God an unjust judge. Just as Calvinists have sinners paying for sins, they had no choice but to commit, so too this doctrine has sinners paying for sins

k) It encourages the unrighteous to sin more. If a criminal accepts he is going to hell, this doctrine gives him no reason to not go all the way and become a mass murder! Why not sin the more! Hell will not be any hotter!

l) It makes God a respector of persons for punishing all men identically, in spite of varying degrees of sin.

a) It does not dismiss the fact that, one sin, any sin, the first sin, separates God and man for eternity in Hell.

b) It agrees with the witness of common sense, Old Testament, civil code and parenting.

c) It is patterned after "monarchy" (kingdom, Jesus is king), where the king bestows special favours for valiant efforts and extraordinary punishments upon exceeding wicked men.

d) It creates an incentive of reward directly proportionate to effort, according to the wisdom in the book of proverbs and after "if a man won't work, neither let him eat".

a) huge furnace with lake of fire inside, raining fire located in valley of hinnon in Jerusalem?

b) Or 4 different figures to depict the spiritual counterpart