Hades Isn't Hell

When a man dies his body goes back to the earth from which it came, his life (breath) stops, then his spirit, the one thing that separates us from other animals & that lives eternally, will go to a place called Hades. Hades isn't Hell, rather it is a realm for disembodied spirits, and there are 3 parts of Hades, 1, is Paradise, that's were Jesus told the thief on the cross that repented and asked for forgiveness would go, and Jesus said to him, that today he (the thief) would be with Him in paradise. (Luke 23:43). 2, is a place of torment, that's where the rich man went when he refused to help Lazarus (read Luke 16). Lazarus went to Paradise, the rich man went to the place of torment. Neither had bodies but they recognized each other, and the rich man even saw Abraham there. 3, there was a great gulf that separated the 2 places, and they could not cross to and from. They made the choice to be where they are, by what they did while alive here on earth. Neither of these places are the permanent abiding place of the dead, they are both a foretaste of what each will encounter after the second coming of Christ, when our spirit will be reunited with our bodies, as the grave gives them up. Those now in Paradise will be taken to the Judgement seat of Christ, and judged for their actions after they were saved, (II Corinthians 5:10) and then they will enter into a new Heaven (Garden Of Eden), where there will be no pain, no sorrow, no tears,etc. Those in the place of torment will be taken from there to the Great White Throne judgement, and this is where they will see that their names WERE NOT written in the Lambs Book Of Life (Revelation 20) and then cast in to what the Bible refers to as a Lake of Fire. There it is, the simple truth, look it up. ~ Big Love, Cochise