Mercy Shown
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I am more comfortable with annihilation then eternal torture. But it is not a theological hill I am willing to die on.Lots of contradictions. Zechariah 13:9 tells us"This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
So a third of the people are purified by fire and two thirds are destroyed by fire. But destroyed does not mean destroyed. I tend to be an annihilationist and believe that God will not allow any ungodlyness. Of course it all comes down to what does it mean that the lake of fire is the second death?
John Wesley believed that the elements that make us up are dedicated to us and can not be used by anyone or anything else. If we are eaten by a shark the shark can use whatever energy is stored in our body but we can not be consumed and would pass through the shark. Of course the issues centers around satin's desire to for creation to destroy itself.
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