Did Jesus reference Hell or Heaven more times in Bible?

Answer 1

I'm not sure; but tthen you forgot about 'earth'.

Jesus talked about 'The Kingdom' quite a bit. The Kingdom includes heaven AND earth.

Jesus said that "the meek shall inherit the earth" not heaven.

Jesus taught us to pray: "Thy will be don ON EARTH, as it is in heaven."

Any time Jesus talked about 'hell' - - he never meant 'eternal torment'. Jehovah his God, and Jesus, the Son, would never 'torment' anyone, let alone eternally. That's not like them.

Answer 2

there are over a dozen references to a place "where the worm does not die, and the fire does not cease to burn, " any bible concordance will list all refs to "hell" or "fire"

Check out these references just from Matthew's gospel Matt 5:22, Matt 13:40, Matt 13:42, Matt 13:50, Matt 18:8, Matt 18:9, Matt 25:41

In Matthew there are lots of references to the Kingdom of heaven.Jesus spoke of his Father in heaven, angels from heaven and the only reference to heaven as a place for his follwers after life, is in John ch 14.

Answer 3

No. The common persons understanding of hell is more likely to be found in Dante's "Inferno." The Bible does not speak of a place of permanent suffering for physical humans - only the evil one and his demons. We humans who refuse to repent and accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, will face the '2nd Death' of Scripture in the Lake of Fire - physical beings becoming ashes into oblivion.

ANOTHER ANSWER:

God didn't "inspire" the word "hell" in the original manuscripts. This word came to be used in subsequent translations into other languages, like English, from FOUR DIFFERENT ORIGINALLY INSPIRED WORDS: "sheol, hades, tartarusor tartaroo, and Gehenna."

(1 & 2): "Sheol" [Hebrew] and "hades" [Greek] are two forms of the SAME "hell" that simply mean "a pit or hole in the ground; or THE GRAVE." These "hells" are "literal." Whole fields of them dot the earth with their presence and reminders of where mankind is headed.

(3): "Tartaroo" is a "hell" that's "inspired" and used ONCE in the New Testament [II Peter 2:4] in reference to ANGELS. This "English hell" is a "spiritual condition of restraint or limitation" that God placed on the demons that "possess this world." It's a "spiritual form of incarceration" placed on them when they were first "cast down to the earth" after their failed coup attempt against God's throne in heaven in the beginning of creation [see Rev.12:7-9] before man was made.

"...I remind you of the angels who did not stay within the limits of authority God gave them but left the place where they belonged. God has kept them in prisons of darkness [II Peter's 2:4, tartaroo], WAITING FOR THE DAY OF JUDGMENT." (Jude 1:6 NLT New Living Translation)

This "tartaroo hell" is as "literal" as "spirit is literal"... as literal as gravity, the wind, inertia and all the other invisible laws of God, that man calls "nature," are literal.

And, mankind can, and should, be grateful for this "tartaroo, hell"... because without God's hand in sustaining and restraining gravity, the wind, the earth's breatheable atmosphere, and the demons cast down to the earth, who are able to wield these invisible laws; each sustained and restrained within their own limitations -- all life and the earth would have ceased to exist almost before it got started. This "tartaroo, hell" is literal.

(4): "Gehenna" is the only "hell" Jesus mentions in the Bible with any "infernal" or "fiery" connotation.

"...but whosoever shall say, 'Thou fool,' shall be in danger of HELL FIRE." (Matt.5:22 KJV)

Same verse "Literal Bible" [LIT]: "...And -ever says, Fool, answerable will be into the Gehenna of fire!"

And: "...it is better for thee to enter into [Eternal] Life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into HELL FIRE [again, LIT; Gehenna of fire!]." (Matt.18:9 KJV)

"Gehenna" is LITERALLY a: "...valley of (the son of) Hinnom; ge-henna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem..." (Strong's Definitions)

Gehenna is the place where "trash was burned" in Jesus' day... and a place where the bodies of incorrigibly wicked criminals were cast... not worthy of meriting a burial.

Jesus referenced this "valley" as the place where the future "Lake of Fire" will be kindled upon His return to earth. This "Gehenna, hell" will LITERALLY be a LAKE [valley] OF FIRE... that shall burn for the duration of Christ's thousand year rule... a thousand year reminder to the nations to obey God's laws... and a torment to Satan and his demons who shall be cast into outer darkness upon His return, as they watch all the vile, perverse, wicked things they've worked for go up in flames.

And this "Gehenna, hell," Lake of Fire will still be burning when the thousand years are ended, and Judgment Day commences [see Rev.20:11-15]:

"...THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH - the LAKE OF FIRE [Gehenna Fire]. And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." (verses 14-15)

THIS "Gehenna, hell" is the most misunderstood of all the "hells" found in the English translations of the Bible. This "fiery hell" will BURN UP whatever is thrown into it; as that is what fire LITERALLY does to things. This "literal" future Lake of Fire will be a "cleansing fire"... a spreading, planet burning, cleansing fire, prior to the remaking of the New Heavens and the New Earth [Rev.21].

And the Bible tells us that it is intended for SATAN AND HIS DEMONS... for THEIR TORMENT... not man's! Man is "mortal"... and mortal, physical things BURN UP when exposed to fire. But Satan and his demons are SPIRIT BEINGS... that cannot die. And when they are "dis-possessed"... they are in TORMENT! [see Luke 11:24-26]

"Then the King [the future returned Christ] will turn to those on His left [those mortal men who have embraced and love Satan's evil attitude and ways] and say, 'Away with you, you cursed ones, INTO THE ETERNAL FIRE [the Lake of Fire kindled by the Eternal God] PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS!'" (Matt.25:41 NLT)

Although "Gehenna" is a very LITERAL valley and place on the earth, now... the fiery "Gehenna, hell" is not yet "literal." It awaits Jesus' return, when He will be "making war" against Satan, his demons, and all of the puny military might of all of the nations on earth [see Rev.16:13-21].

The resulting carnage will create piles of bodies and weaponry and destruction, that a great need for the "Lake of Fire" [Gehenna, hell] will be created to clean up the mess:

"The Day of Judgment will come... the people in the towns of Israel will go out and pick up your small and large shields, bows and arrows, javelins and spears, and they will use them for fuel. There will be enough to last them SEVEN YEARS! They will need nothing else for their fires. They won't need to cut wood from the fields or forests, for these weapons will give them all they need. They will take plunder from those who planned to plunder them, says the Sovereign LORD. And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea... It will take SEVEN MONTHS for the people of Israel to cleanse the land by burying the bodies. EVERYONE IN ISRAEL WILL HELP, for it will be A GLORIOUS VICTORY FOR ISRAEL when I DEMONSTRATE MY GLORY IN THAT DAY, says the Sovereign LORD. At the end of SEVEN MONTHS, special crews will be appointed to search the land for any skeletons and to bury them, so the land will be made clean again. Whenever some bones are found, a marker will be set up beside them so the burial crews will see them and take them to be buried in the Valley of Gog's Hordes... And now, son of man, call all the birds and wild animals, says the Sovereign LORD. Say to them: 'Gather together for My great sacrificial feast... eat the flesh and drink the blood! Eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of princes [military soldiers and leaders of nations] as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and fat young bulls of Bashan! ...Feast at My banquet table - feast on horses, riders, and valiant warriors..." (Ezek.39:8-20 NLT).

Compare this with Revelation 19:17-20; the time of Jesus' return.

This is the True Jesus, the All-Powerful, Almighty God and returning King, whom this world doesn't know at all. He is "literal"... He's REAL. And the "Gehenna, hell"... the Lake of Fire... He will kindle on earth in that Day will be that "literal" valley on the outskirts of Jerusalem, today.

It won't be the "imaginary hell" of Dante's eternally-torturous Inferno that men have come to accept as the "hell" that doesn't burn anything up. This future, literal "hell" will consume all that's cast into it... except for Satan and his demons; whose future eternal torment awaits them.

And when the fuel, air and heat that's required by God's law for the fire is all consumed -- the fire will go out. And the New Heavens and New Earth will remain. And there won't be any more "graves" [hell] or death.

And there won't be any more need for the "hell" of "restraining demons" [who will be permanently cast into their eternal torment of outer darkness].

And the Lake of Fire [Gehenna, hell] will extinguish itself when it runs out of things to consume; and it's heat has melted the elements of the earth, changing them into permanent things; like sand to glass... and all the precious metals of the earth are cleansed of all their impurities... and only perfection remains.

The "hells" of the Bible are real, literal. But they'll all be rendered null and void when God's plan is complete, following the Judgment.

"And He that sat upon the throne said. 'Behold, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. And He said unto me, Write: for THESE WORDS ARE TRUE and FAITHFUL... He that overcometh shall inherit ALL THINGS [the universe]; and I will be his God, and HE SHALL BE MY SON." (Rev.21:5-7 KJV)

Answer 4

definitely not!