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Nonsense! That is a typical heterodox ploy, just rearrange verses however you want to to make scripture say what you want it to.
.....I can see the seven churches, revelation was written to, sitting around their assemblies saying e.g. "Paul is going to write an epistle to the church at Corinth, that we're going to get by an by, which says 'the last enemy to be destroyed is death' so the 8 groups of people John said were going to be cast into the second death won't really die but will raised as pure as the driven snow" or words to that effect.
.....John never says anything which supports UR, I wonder why God inspired John, who was one of the 12, to get everything so wrong.
Here is how Tertullian understood Rev 21:8. No mention of universal reconciliation. Wait a minute I know you are going to quote a few "experts'" over at Tentmaker which trump anything I post.
Tertullian [(a.d. 200-250)] VII. On Modesty.
Chap. XIX. In short, this Apocalypse, in its later passages, has assigned “the infamous and fornicators,” as well as “the cowardly, and unbelieving, and murderers, and sorcerers, and idolaters,” who have been guilty of any such crime while professing the faith, to “the lake of fire,” (Rev_21:8) without any conditional condemnation. For it will not appear to savour of (a bearing upon) heathens, since it has (just) pronounced with regard to believers, “They who shall have conquered shall have this inheritance; and I will be to them a God, and they to me for sons;” and so has subjoined: “But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and infamous, and fornicators, and murderers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, (shall be) a share in the lake of fire and sulphur, which (lake) is the second death.” Thus, too, again “Blessed they who act according to the precepts, that they may have power over the tree of life and over the gates, for entering into the holy city. Dogs, sorcerers, fornicators, murderers, out!” (Rev_22:14, Rev_22:15) - of course, such as do not act according to the precepts; for to be sent out is the portion of those who have been within.
Tertullian IX. De Fuga in Persecutione.
7. And then what does He allot to the fearful? “He who will value his life more than Me, is not worthy of Me; and he who takes not up his cross and follows Me, cannot be My disciple.” (Mat_10:37, Mat_10:38) Last of all, in the Revelation, He does not propose flight to the “fearful,” (Rev_21:8) but a miserable portion among the rest of the outcast, in the lake of brimstone and fire, which is the second death.
Chap. XIX. In short, this Apocalypse, in its later passages, has assigned “the infamous and fornicators,” as well as “the cowardly, and unbelieving, and murderers, and sorcerers, and idolaters,” who have been guilty of any such crime while professing the faith, to “the lake of fire,” (Rev_21:8) without any conditional condemnation. For it will not appear to savour of (a bearing upon) heathens, since it has (just) pronounced with regard to believers, “They who shall have conquered shall have this inheritance; and I will be to them a God, and they to me for sons;” and so has subjoined: “But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and infamous, and fornicators, and murderers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, (shall be) a share in the lake of fire and sulphur, which (lake) is the second death.” Thus, too, again “Blessed they who act according to the precepts, that they may have power over the tree of life and over the gates, for entering into the holy city. Dogs, sorcerers, fornicators, murderers, out!” (Rev_22:14, Rev_22:15) - of course, such as do not act according to the precepts; for to be sent out is the portion of those who have been within.
Tertullian IX. De Fuga in Persecutione.
7. And then what does He allot to the fearful? “He who will value his life more than Me, is not worthy of Me; and he who takes not up his cross and follows Me, cannot be My disciple.” (Mat_10:37, Mat_10:38) Last of all, in the Revelation, He does not propose flight to the “fearful,” (Rev_21:8) but a miserable portion among the rest of the outcast, in the lake of brimstone and fire, which is the second death.
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