I give priority to the preponderance of evidence 26 verses vs 1-2 NOT non-Biblical sources as you imply. No you haven't shown anything about my reasoning, you don't know the difference between "aion" eternity and "aionios" eternal, everlasting etc. "Aion" is the word Lk 1:33 NOT aionios.
Aion and aionios are the same world. Aion is the noun form, aionios is the adjective form. It's like spirit and spiritual. Spirit is the noun form, spiritual is the adjective form. The meaning doesn't change. It's the same word, the only difference is how it's used in a sentence.
Thanks. Yeah, we've had this discussion several times. There are so many passages that indicate that aion doesn't mean eternal. People pick a few that they can claim mean eternal and camp out on them. Here's another that shows aion isn't eternal.
It may be worthwhile to note that while eternal life clarifies a conscious existence, eternal punishment does not. Until Jesus, there was no hope for eternal life for anyone. Dead, done, over. Likewise for those not worthy of the Kingdom, they will become no more, with no chance ever again at life. That punishment is eternal. Why would the unworthy receive the same reward of eternal life as the worthy? This of course might irk some who are hoping for revenge/physical torment upon the evil of this world (or just their next door neighbour), but they better be careful what they wish for, because that thinking just removed them from the Kingdom also.. and they have judged themselves.
That's right "eternal fire" NOT "eternal suffering" or "eternal vengeance!" How do we reconcile this verse with the 26 verses I quoted and which you ignored? Where did the Sodom/Gomorrah fire originate? In heaven and we know it is no longer burning is Sodom etc. Since it originated in heaven where OBTW it had no fuel to keep it burning perhaps God took it back to heaven. Now this verse reconciles with Joh 3:15-16 and the other 24 verses I quoted.
You seem to not know scripture.
Do you actually think that "eternal punishment" is "the same reward of eternal life as the worthy?"
Say what?
Again, what this shows is that you don't understand the word aion. You just ignore the passages that show clearly that aion ends. If the aion ends how do we reconcile John 3:15-16? It's rather simple. The word aion is translated from the Hebrew Olam. The ancient Jews saw life as a path traveled. David said God's word was a light unto his path. Jesus said, narrow is the road that leads to life. Paul told his readers not to walk in the way of the Gentiels. All of this shows a path followed. The Hebrew word olam that's often mistranslated forever meant beyond the horizon. It was basically beyond what one could see. The Jews also saw time this way too. For the Jew olam was essentially that which is out if sight. When the Septuagint was translated from the Hebrew text the translators chose the word aion to translate olam. They were translating the concept of time out of sight. That's what aion was intended to portray. We can see that is pretty accurate since, like olam, it portrays a time whose end is not known. The length of an aion (age) is determined by the context in which it is used. If we were discussing my aion (age) and your aion (age) they'd be different lengths of time, yet both of them are an aion. What scientist call the bronze age and the stone age are different lengths of time. However, they are both an aion. God has laid out different aions in his plan. Jesus spoke of this aion and the aion to come. Now if God desires to give life to people through all of the aions to come, He can. Or, if at some point He chooses to make an aion that doesn't end, He can. If God desides that the final aion is unending He can do that. However, that wouldn't change the meaning of aion. Aion, like age, is a length of time that is determine by something outside of the definition of the word. So, while aion can incorporate something that is eternal, eternal isn't the definition of the word. We can see that clearly from all of the uses where it ends. What's causing confusion for you is that you"re looking at a false dichotomy. It's either eternal or finite. It's not. It's a length of time that is unspecified.
