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Good point about many mansions. It'd be like reading about an office building with "many desks" and interpreting that as "everyone gets a condo".

I fully agree about "hell". Anytime someone says "hell" I ask whether they mean sheol, gehenna, or tartaros and usually get a blank stare. 95% of the time they have Italian political satire in mind.

When the Bible talks about "souls", it's usually Greek for "breath" in the sense of the air a living being is breathing in and out. That throws a lot of people off.

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At this point I accept all the countless testimonies of people leaving their bodies and believe the spirit is referring to this ghost body. Tartaroos is only mentioned once, and I would assume its old testament counterpart is "the lowest sheol."

Jews had come to believe in people going to a bad, fiery place after they die, while the good people are in "Abraham's Bosom." There is a vague reference to this in the parable of the Lazarus and the Rich Man, which is actually a story with many variations Jesus decided to pick up and make his own version of. I have found out that in Hebrew writings many things preexisted the Bible. The presentation of flesh vs spirit by Paul in Galations 5 is coming from Jewish culture and is not Paul's creation/revelation. Names written in the book of life pops up in Revelation, but this is also something taught among Jews before this writing. Many people don't know that before Jesus, there were miracle working rabbis with revelations and teachings. This stuff didn't make the Bible, and all of it isn't a bunch of false nonsense that's completely wrong. Some of it gets confirmed by Biblical writings.

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I used to think having many rooms in the Father's house was a reference to marriage or adoption. If someone wanted to marry a woman while staying in their father's house, they had to provide the bride with a room. Of course if you're going to adopt a child, you need to give them a room. I have recently learned that all of that isn't even the point. The point is that the body of believers IS the Father's house. It's ultimately trying to say that you are a room in the Father's house. God wanting to marry or adopt us is great, but it's even more intense to see that he wants you to be a room in his house.