Therefore, if the writer of Hebrews believed the wicked would be punished with something so monstrous as being endlessly annihilated or tormented, he would not have chosen to compare their punishment to something so lame as being stoned to death. Clearly he did not believe Love Omnipotent is an unfeeling terminator machine or sadist who abandons forever the beings He created in His own image & likeness so easily.
Where does Heb 10:28 mention stoning? It doesn't, it says"dies without compassion". Nor does it say anything about what a person dying goes through in the process of dying. That is the choice, not the method of punishment. A punishment sorer than dying without compassion. Also what you think is "clear" is not stated therefore irrelevant. What you think the writer of Hebrews might/might not believe is also not stated therefore irrelevant
"Many" not all!
Agree.
It IS the presumption of some - they have NO "ending" timeline. They are "teaching", the dead, VOID of their blood, ie their own "earthly" life, shall be included, to be forever WITH the Lord.
God "created" and "made" all of mankind. That was
FINISHED, right after the Earth (ie man's habitat was created.
Gen 2
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31] And
God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Gen.2
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1] Thus the heavens and
the earth were finished, and
all the host of them.
God SAW "ALL" He had made.
God FINISHED "ALL" the hosts of the earth.
Ecc 1
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9]
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and
that which is done is that which shall be done: and
there is no new thing under the sun.
There IS NOTHING NEW, that was NOT before.
Now what DOES MAN "SEE" (which God has ALWAYS SEEN) ?
Men SEE, babes,
being REVEALED, born.
Men SEE,
what WAS, being REVEALED, that their earthly natural EYES, "CAN SEE".
Men SEE, what
WAS DONE, being REVEALED.
NOTHING new - MEN, (in their own blood life) lie, cheat, sneak, deceive, etc.
NOTHING new - MEN can NOT FOOL GOD.
NOTHING new - God has a RECORD of EVERYTHING a man DOES, "by" the SOUL, that is imparted into a man, and BELONGS TO GOD.
God KNOWS, the same as the man KNOWS, (what he does and does not do), (what he thinks, says; what he chooses to trust and believe, or not. etc.).
Men have liberty of choices, when alive in their own life (blood).
God has a WAY, (for a man alive in his own life (blood)), to learn about God, and pleasing to God, elect to trust and believe in God....or not.
Some people teach, MEN, "not alive" in their own life (blood), will be INCLUDED to be WITH God, even when ALIVE in their own life (blood), they made no such election.
I rather choose to Trust and Believe what God says -
Rev 20
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15] And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Whosoever's names that do appear in the book of life - are whosoever OVERCAME the WORLD and the WICKED one of the WORLD ~ BECAUSE Gods Spirit was IN THEM, when they were bodily ALIVE in their own life (blood).
1 John 4
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4] Ye are of God, little children, and
have overcome them:
because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Nothing whatsoever teaches Gods Spirit enters men DEAD in their own life VOID of their blood life.
God Bless,
SBC