What is the difference between bottomless pit and hell?

Answer 1

First of all, one has to understand that there are 3 greek words that are translated "hell" in the New Testament in the King James Bible which I firmly believe is the most accurate bible version. The 10 times that Hades is translated "hell", it refers to a place where an unsaved, Christ rejector goes immediately upon dying, it is a place of torment deep in the earth, and the 12 times that the Greek word Gehenna is translated "hell", it refers to the lake of fire that all the occupants of hell and even hell itself will be cast into at the end of the Great White Throne Judgment as scripture says. Now, the Greek word Tatarus is only translated "hell" only once, and that refers to the bottomless pit which is the lowest part of Hades where there are some fallen angels imprisoned there now as stated in 2 Peter 2:4 in the New Testament, and where Satan himself will be imprisoned at the end of this age. The bottomless pit is a place only for fallen angels and for Satan, but hades which is translated hell as stated earlier is a place for human lost souls which is above the bottomless pit.