Hi.
This is a serious question. Im questioning everything at the moment, maybe its just a crisis, maybe the Holy Spirit is guiding me, because i pray to be led in all truth and to see all lies...
If Jesus took my punishment - hell for eternity - why then got he resurrected to sit on the throne? Even tho he was without sin... if he takes my punishment it must be the same punishment or not?
The old testament says that the punishment for sin is death. "If you eat from the tree of knowledge, you must die", not "you must go to hell".
I mean... Jesus took a lot of damage and pain for us. But what is that compared for one person being burned alive for eternity?
Please don't answer to just trust that all this is just rightous, and Iam too human to comprehend it. There is too much deception going on and Im no longer willing to accept anything blindly.
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Torment in Hell ... No
Psalm 1:6 “But the way of the ungodly shall perish (singular)” (2nd death)
Psalm 37:20 “But the wicked shall perish… they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.” (consume - totally destroyed)
Perish (singular - not perishing ) suffer complete ruin or destruction.
Psalm 69:28 says that the wicked are “blotted out of the book of the living.” (they will not receive eternal life)
Ps. 34:16, 21 “evil brings death to the wicked.” (2nd death)
Psalm 92:7 “… shall be destroyed forever.” (self-explanatory)
Prov. 24:20 “the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.” (will not contune life)
Dan. 2:35 “the wind swept them away without leaving a trace.” (no trace of the wicked totally gone)
Isa. 1:28, 30–31 “rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.” (consumed - totally destroyed)
Obadiah 1:16 It will be as if the evil “had never been.“ (non-existent)
Mal 4:1 “All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them.” (they will be totally burned up - destroyed by fire)
Matthew 10:28 “Rather, fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Here Jesus himself teaches against hell– saying that those who are lost experience the death of their soul. If one believes in eternal conscious hell, they believe Jesus was wrong on this point, and that souls don’t die at all, but will live forever in hell.
John 3:16 “…whosoever believeth in him should not perish (singular)” (2nd death)
Matthew 7:13: “broad is the road that leads to destruction“ (totally destroyed)
Philippians 3:19 “whose end is destruction…“ (destroyed)
2 Thessalonians 1:9 “who shall be punished with everlasting destruction …” (destroyed - never to live again)
1 Cor 3:17: “God will destroy that person”
2 Cor 2:15-16: “those that perish“ (2nd death)
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death..“ (2nd death)
James 4:12a “There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.”
2 Peter 2:3: “Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.” (the unsaved in the grave will face destruction) 2nd resurrection
Revelation 20:9
(9) And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Those who believe in eternal conscious hell don’t believe in the second death– they believe everyone is immortal non the less, and that some will live forever in hell.
Revelation 20:14 “This is the second death…”
Death is Death ... cease to exist. The first death (earthly death) is temporal ... the 2nd death (of the lost) is final and for eternity (totally destroyed - cease to exist).
We do not have a loving God who tortures people for eternity.
1 Corinthians 15:26
And the last enemy
to be destroyed is
death.
Exist with God for eternity (through Christ) or cease to exist, be destroyed.