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Also totally absent from the scriptures is any hint that demons are tormenting sinners. This again comes from Dante's Inferno and other pagan concepts, not from the Bible. Because any "sinning angels" in the presence of God, are also in torment, and their power is made ineffective.I don't think Dante invented the greek word "inferno", which has nothing to do with fire.
I don't know Dante's work.
I did see the movie "Towering Inferno" though.
I guess i found out the meaning and the root of inferno and inferior and thought: Hey, it doesn't mean fire at all.
I must have put 2 and 2 together and got 5
But there is some confusion between underworld, grave, hell and the lake of fire in the Bible (translations).
Assume all you want.
But you probably know it better than i do.I'm glad we agree there. Interesting. Interesting.Hmmm... The idea that all fallen creatures will be there together is none the less extra intimidating...
To be clear, my idea of hell is not inspired by Dante. I don't know his work.
Yes, i know the often cartoonish imagination of hell, of course.
But i don't believe God or satan has employees there who torture people or something like that.
But i can imagine there is a lot of hate between those who are there, between the kinds of creatures.
I don't think God is present in hades.
That's why it's cold and dark, isolated, removed from God.
As you said and i agreed, God is a consuming Fire for what is not holy.
That means they would be consumed by fire if God were present there.
But this place seems to be where the dead are before Judgement.
It's not the 2nd death, it's the 1st death, the natural physical death, or rather what is after that for the people who are not resting in Abraham's lap.
Correct me if i remember this wrong.
Thanks for your explanations.
However, it is not totally wrong to understand the after life as "type" of Heaven and Hell. Because from each individual's perspective, it will not be perceived as the same "place", but rather as either torment and darkness you can not escape, or as the paradise you have always longed for. For those judged, they will experience God's presence as eternal darkness.
The cause of the pain is the poor choices that we make, not God. If one thinks of these two different "places" as conditions that we choose to be in, rather than "compartments" God puts us in, it would be more accurate.
2Th 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall pay a penalty of everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
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