One of the biggest problems with the modern versions like the NIV, the ESV, the New King
James is that they remove the word hell so many times.
I mean, the King James Bible, I believe it's 54 times that the word hell is used.
The NIV brings that down to 13, and most of the new versions have about 13 mentions of
the word hell.
Now the other thing that's so bad about that is that they completely remove the word hell
from the Old Testament, and that has led a lot of people to teach that hell is not really
an Old Testament doctrine.
I know that when I was at community college, you know, just in a secular history class,
they taught us, they said, you know, hell is not an Old Testament doctrine.
You know, hell is never mentioned until the New Testament.
That's pretty bizarre to think that hell is never taught, hell is never mentioned, you
know, almost like hell didn't even exist or something in the Old Testament.
Because if you're reading an NIV, the first time you're going to come to the word hell
is in Matthew 5, because they've completely removed hell from the Old Testament.
And not only that, but they've removed half of the mentions of hell in the New Testament
and replaced it with sometimes the grave, which there's a big difference between the
grave and hell, or they'll just replace it with the word Hades.
You know, for example, Old Testament scriptures though, you're reading along, you know, hell
has enlarged herself, a fire is kindled in my anger that will burn to the lowest hell.
You know, these don't say hell in the New Versions.
You know, in the King James Bible when it says, you know, thou shalt beat him with the
rod and shall deliver his soul from hell, talking about disciplining your children,
you know, the NIV just says in Proverbs 23, to punish him with the rod and save his soul
from death.
Notice, it doesn't say beat him with the rod.
So again, now you could make an argument against spanking and say, well punish him with the
rod, you know, that's something different, that's figurative.
And then it says that you'll save his soul from death.
Well death and hell are not necessarily the same thing.