Why would God punish the “apex of His creation” in Hell, eternally? Eternal damnation just because they did not choose Christ? But then it’s comforting to know that God, who is love, in His loving kindness, as He soooooo loves the world, would continue to sustain sinners in Hell in eternal torment, ‘coz He just loves them soooooo much.
Jim McClarty – [link]
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Hello.
Hell is a teaching, like purgatory, that has no basis in scripture. It is a tradition that has become orthodox, but scripture as in most cases runs contrary to traditional viewpoints.
Consider John 3:16 … “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that as many as believe in Him may not PERISH but have Eternal Life.”
Life is a gift … we are not owed life, but we each have it for a time. But it is inherently TEMPORARY … having a beginning and an end. The doctrine of hell depicts no end … no “PERISHING” … but continued and unending conscious torment.
In reality, to accept the very Life of God is to be made alive by His life … a Life that is unending and unbeginning .. .ETERNAL. To reject that Life is to remain temporal … having no Eternal destiny.
To perish is to be UNFORMED to nothing .. and those that receive the second death to be made no more will have no thoughts to realize they have received it or not. Thoughts perish with the perishing
The serpent said: “You shall surely not die.” … and the church has been repeating the refrain, even when such teaching goes against the most popular verse … John 3:16.
Perish means perish.
Consider this:
1/14/06 – From God the Father
…Shall I, even I, torment My beloved, they who are tormented continually by he who is, and has, torment in his vesture? Satan is the tormentor. … Become, again, a child of God, and learn to walk uprightly, leading others into love, by love, not fear.MORE of this letter about unbiblical “hell” HERE
18 reasons why in a single verse
Theological Myth – Unending conscious torture
Hello Trent. Thank you for the inputs.
Firstly,
“Hell is a teaching, like purgatory, that has no basis in scripture. It is a tradition that has become orthodox, but scripture as in most cases runs contrary to traditional viewpoints.”
That isn’t entirely true, rather it isn’t true at all. Hell has been mentioned repeatedly in the Bible, in the old testament, the books of Ezekiel and Isaiah. And of course in the new testament, where the Lord Christ Jesus refers to it a lot of times.
If your argument is true and substantial, to say that the doctrine of Hell is unbiblical, we can therefore say the same with the doctrine of the Trinity, can we not?
In the word “perish”, I think it would be wise to take other verses to understand this concept better. Verses like in the book of Revelation: “Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.”
Keep an open biblical mind brother. If you want to argue that the reality of Hell is false, then falsify ALL passages in Scripture that point to it.
“Keep an open biblical mind brother”
I wholly agree with my friend here. It’s really hard to keep one’s mind closed. more power and godbless u both.