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Recent content by ertsky

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    Would a just and merciful God send most of His creation to an eternal hell?

    these verses indicate that there may be more to it than meets some eyes 1Jo 2:2 and He is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 1Ti 2:6 who gave Himself as the redemption price for all--a fact testified to at its own appointed...
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    here is an amazing thing my fellow christians telling me that because i say God will not torture non christians forever i am in error. then they say well then we don't need a savior if thats the case as if we think we can overcome temptation without Him ! i say He has a plan for good for ALL...
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    1Ti 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. the word specially there is malista Thayer Definition: 1) especially, chiefly, most of all, above all Part of Speech: adverbial...
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    i hear you Lpe04 a few short weeks ago or has it been a month now already i got a megablessing from God that lifted me out of the miry clay and i came to see from reading over at Ray Smiths site that God was not going to torture non christians ..what a sweet moment that was when the yoke of...
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    Ed i may be a little confused here LOL! are you saying God will put people in a place of never ending torture ? i'm only here because i don't want people to believe that God is going to take a person and torture them forever. judge them yes many other things yes but never ending torture NO...
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    Hey Ed you probably picked my worst post to answer there are many others earlier ok sheol i'll just c&p this from Rays site In Hebrew "Hell" is translated from the word sheol This same word sheol is translated into the English word "grave" thirty times in the Authorized...
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    Ginny if you look up in e-sword the word translated eternal everlasting etc etc it is the greek word aeon or its adjective form aionios recognise it? its eon an eon is a period of time with a begining and an end would you translate it everlasting ? or forever and ever just as hades is grave...
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    ok is everyone agreed that sheol and hades should not be translated "hell" but rather the grave the unseen imperceptible or vanishing point ? Ecc 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou...
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    what does the word "hell" mean ? a place of eternal torment isn't it ? well the words translated hell sheol and hades mean vanishing point grave unseen imperceptible it is very bad to translate hades as hell, as bad as to translate sleep as choreographer (but worse because of the consequences)...
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    i love my Saviour so much when i look back on the life He has enabled me to survive and think how recently He brought me up from the miry clay i am very impatient to learn more about Him by reading his word and letting Him live in me by His Spirit which lives and remains in me, recently i was...
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    Rom 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. Rom 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! i read these verses then think well people are telling me...
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    Jerry i get the idea that you think the lake of fire is a place of eternal torment do you have any verses that back this up? some of the reasons i dont think the lake of fire is a place of eternal torment is the many verses that indicate an afterwards like this sort of thing Eze 33:11 Say...
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    sorry Jerrysch i seem to have misunderstood you i'm trying to say amongst other things that the word hell is a bad translation of the original hebrew word sheol and greek word hades and that gehenna and lake of fire are not places of eternal torture are you saying i am wrong in this? i agree...
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    and where in any of those blessed verses does it say that God will torture unbelievers forever? are you suggesting verse 15 makes God an eternal torturer have you not read that our God is a consuming fire ? and that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ? do you not...
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    Heb 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. to bring many sons and daughters to glory to set us free from the law of sin and death and many other...