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The passage says nothing about modes of punishment. That is just a smoke screen trying to divert attention away for what the passage actually says..
The passage refers to capital punishment under Moses' law which, BTW, was generally by means of stoning:
Heb.10:28 A man that hath set at nought Moses' law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Stoning to death is not a very sore or long lasting punishment. People suffered far worse deaths via the torture methods of the eternal hell believing Medieval Inquisitionists and the German Nazis under Hitler.
Therefore, if the writer of Hebrews believed that wicked, rebellious, Christ rejectors 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.
The comparison is "death without mercy" and "much sorer punishment." It does not say "much sorer punishment" than any of the modes of capital punishment in Israel.
To say "death without mercy" does not relate a degree of "sore[ness]" of punishment. Therefore it does not contrast or compare to a "sorer punishment". OTOH, death under Moses' law, generally by stoning, does relate a "sore[ness]" of punishment. So the comparison (or contrast) is between (1) such a sore punishment, like stoning and (2) a "sorer" punishment.
You can post this nonsense as many times as you want to but it does not change what the scripture actually says. "much sorer punishment" than "death without mercy."
I'm quite aware that nonsense doesn't "change what the scripture actually says." No matter where or who it comes from. Thanks for sharing.
https://www.tentmaker.org/books/hope_beyond_hell.pdf
http://www.tentmaker.org/articles/unique_proof_for_universalism.html
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