A word of explanation ....................................................................... 5

The pattern of sound words ................................................................ 5

What constitutes sound doctrine?....................................................... 5

Would Paul pass the orthodox test? ................................................... 6

Pure from the blood of all men .......................................................... 6

What did Paul teach about hell?.......................................................... 6

Paul uses the word but once............................................................... 7

A specious argument exposed ............................................................ 8

Matthew's terms examined ................................................................ 8

Hell (hades) ...................................................................................... 8

Gehenna, or hell-fire ......................................................................... 9

Gehenna in Matthew ....................................................................... 10

Gehenna and its contexts................................................................. 11

Gehenna and its dispensational setting............................................. 11

Everlasting punishment ................................................................... 12

Terms of eternal life in Matthew 25 ................................................. 13

Try the things that differ .................................................................. 14

The Hebrew word sheol................................................................... 15

Hell in old English .......................................................................... 15

Sheol as used in The Old Testament................................................. 16

An orthodox witness õ A.J. Pollock ................................................. 17

Ecclesiastes compared with the Psalms............................................ 18

For ever, everlasting, and eternal ..................................................... 18

F.W. Grant on aion ......................................................................... 19

The root meaning of olam ............................................................... 19

Tradition versus truth ....................................................................... 20

The usage of olam in the Old Testament .......................................... 20

The fitness of the word "age" .......................................................... 21

The doctrine of the soul................................................................... 21

Nephesh in the book of Genesis ....................................................... 22

Article VI of the "Thirty-nine Articles of Religion" ......................... 22

Immortality of the soul a doctrine of demons ................................... 23

Immortality in Scripture .................................................................. 24

"Endless Being" quoted................................................................... 24

The use of torment in the Scriptures................................................. 25

The rich man and Lazarus ................................................................ 25

Luke records several "contrast" parables.......................................... 26