Tartarus - Angelic Prison

[Ronnie]

Greek mythology speaks of Tartarus:
Tartarus, the infernal regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name was originally used for the deepest region of the world, the lower of the two parts of the underworld, where the gods locked up their enemies. It gradually came to mean the entire underworld. As such it was the opposite of Elysium, where happy souls lived after death. In some accounts Tartarus was one of the personified elements of the world, along with Gaea (Earth) and others. Source:

The Bible tells of Tartarus too:
4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment… II Peter 2:4

The Greek word Tartarus in this verse is Anglicized with the word “hell” in the King James Bible.

These angels are reserved in chains until the time they are casted into the Lake of fire are the ones that took them wives of the daughters of men, they cohabitated with women, they left their first estate or existence as Holy Angels.

Some questions:
Where is Tartarus?
Where is the abyss (bottomless pit where Satan will be held for 1000 years) mentioned in Revelations.
Is Sheol Tartarus or is Tartarus in Sheol?
If so, did the rich young ruler, of Jesus parable of him and Lazarus, go to Tartarus.
Why would God use a place in the Bible which also used in Greek mythology?

 

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Greek mythology speaks of Tartarus:
Tartarus, the infernal regions of ancient Greek mythology. The name was originally used for the deepest region of the world, the lower of the two parts of the underworld, where the gods locked up their enemies. It gradually came to mean the entire underworld. As such it was the opposite of Elysium, where happy souls lived after death. In some accounts Tartarus was one of the personified elements of the world, along with Gaea (Earth) and others. Source:

The Bible tells of Tartarus too:
4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment… II Peter 2:4

The Greek word Tartarus in this verse is Anglicized with the word “hell” in the King James Bible.

These angels are reserved in chains until the time they are casted into the Lake of fire are the ones that took them wives of the daughters of men, they cohabitated with women, they left their first estate or existence as Holy Angels.

Some questions:
Where is Tartarus?
Where is the abyss (bottomless pit where Satan will be held for 1000 years) mentioned in Revelations.
Is Sheol Tartarus or is Tartarus in Sheol?
If so, did the rich young ruler, of Jesus parable of him and Lazarus, go to Tartarus.
Why would God use a place in the Bible which also used in Greek mythology?

Let me answer these in one answer:

In Greek mythology, Tartarus was a deep pit of torment that was even lower than Hades (the place of the dead). The word Hades itself also comes from the Greek and is used to describe what is commonly referred to as Sheol in the Old Testament (the BST Bible uses Hades in the OT). So, as far as a physical location, Hades and Tartarus aren't "places" that would specifically have a physical location, but in relation to one another Tartarus is considered "lower" (or worse) than Sheol/ Hades and are not "one in the same". Tartarus also seems to be indicated by Scripture as specifically for a group of angels who sinned (as related by Peter). But I do not believe it was for "cohabitating with women", since angels do not have the power of creation and cannot create DNA, let alone have children per Matthew 22:29-30)

That said: Greek mythology came about later than the original Hebrew faith by about 200 years. Since both share the common Phoenecian alphabet, it's likely that the Greeks borrowed from some of the Hebrew ideas rather than the other way around. Stories of " place lower than low" probably appealed to their superstitions and they readily absorbed that idea for their own.

As such, I don't think any human being goes to Tartarus, since there is already Sheol/ Hades in place for that purpose. As for "Why would God use a place in the Bible which also used in Greek mythology?": the Bible isn't using places but rather names that connote something that the listener of that period (and us) can grasp readily as a comparison. If you think about it; calling such places by Hebrew names is also calling it by different names, since the Lord most likely had names for them already. Gehenna for example is derived from the Hebrew word "Hinnom" (as in, The Valley of Hinnom), a term used to describe a trash dump that was constantly burning in a defiled valley just outside of Jerusalem.

Keep in mind: Hebrew was not God's original language. It most likely developed from the confusion of the languages at Babel.