|
|
|
|
|
Hell Found in the Old Testament? Dr. Michael McKelvey
|
|
|
PAUL
|
2019-02-20 19:44:42, 조회 : 1,391 |
|
|
Is Hell Found in the Old Testament?
Dr. Michael McKelvey | February 19, 2019
Some people think that hell is simply a New Testament doctrine or a New Testament idea because there’s no apparently clear reference to hell in the Old Testament. And there’s some truth to that in terms of trying to think through why hell is mentioned far more in the New Testament than it is in the Old Testament in terms of the doctrine of hell. So we need to think through about how God reveals himself. Scripture, or God’s revelation, is progressive.
God reveals himself in small ways over time, and then that revelation is cumulative.
So we get sort of indications of certain things early on in the Old Testament that we would not fully understand that well without the fullness of God’s revelation in the New Testament. So we can see that God doesn’t give us the answer key, so to speak, early on; he builds on his revelation of himself and his purposes throughout time. So it makes perfect sense for there not to be an as robust a doctrine of hell in the Old Testament as there is in the New Testament. But that doesn’t mean that there’s not ways that we can look back in the Old Testament and see the reality of hell in its seed fashion.
So for instance the word “Sheol” in Hebrew is used in a variety of ways in the Old Testament. Sometimes it refers to the realm of the dead or the nether world. Sometimes it has a more of a general connotation: both the righteous and the wicked go to Sheol, in terms of the grave. But sometimes it has much more of a negative connotation in terms of the wicked going to Sheol, and it being a place that is not good, a place in which it’s not a part of the land of the living, so it has a negative connotation. So that word Sheol has sort of an overlapping idea that there is a realm outside of what we see in creation, in terms of what we visibly see in the physical materials, to which departed spirits go. And then you begin to see that that whole broad idea of Sheol is used in a variety of ways.
And that prepares us then for the New Testament, for when Jesus comes on the scene, and in the teaching of Jesus to the people in his context there was a more fully developed idea that there is a place of judgment. What we expect in terms of how God reveals himself is that the New Testament would give us a fuller revelation of God, such as the doctrine of the Trinity. We can look back in the Old Testament we see the doctrine of the Trinity in seed form but much more clearly expressed in the New Testament. Same thing with hell.
. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
선교운동소개
나눔의광장 