But would you agree that the fiery hell of Matt 10:28 in the post quoted above and the lake of fire and brimstone in Rev 20 ... are real, literal, etc? The just reward given to the wicked?
I believe eternal fire is not something that would be forever and forever. Look at Jude 1:7 it mentions Sodom and Gomorrah suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Now we know Sodom and Gomorrah isn't still buring as of this day but is currently sitting in ashes.
2 Peter 2:6 KJV — And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into
ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
God says in:
Malachi 4:1,3
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall
burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts,
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked;
for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do
this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Here he says the wicked shall be as ashes under the soul of our feet. That means nothing is left we couldn't step on somethibg still burning.
I do believe the more you know the more you burn and the less you know the less you burn as stated in Luke 12:42-48:
Pay attention to:
Luke 12:47 KJV — And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall
be beaten with many stripes.
Luke 12:48 KJV — But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall
be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Christ is clear when he say the wages of sin is death. I believe in the Judge of all the earth and that the wicked will be punished according to the light they have been given and the deeds done in the body.