John 5:28 is referring to physical bodies, so it doesn't contradict my point. Revelation 20:10 makes it clear that the lake of fire is eternal punishment. If hell is death, why did Jesus give the story of lazuras and the rich man? And all the reference of weeping and gnashing of teeth? Souls that are hell bound are spiritually dead. That's why they use the teen, perish.
When reading a parable you need to take that into account. The word "fire" is parabolic for judgement. The word "lake" is parabolic for the body of people.
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Luke 16:19 There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich mans table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abrahams side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In
Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.
25 But Abraham replied, Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.
27 He answered, Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.
29 Abraham replied, They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.
30 No, father Abraham, he said, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.
31 He said to him, If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.
Theophilus is the name or honorary title of the person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed (Luke 1:3, Acts 1:1)
It is unanimously agreed that both Luke and Acts were originally written in Koine Greek, and that "
Theophilos,"
as it appears therein, means friend of God or (be)loved by God or loving God in the Greek language.
No one knows the true identity of Theophilus who wrote the story, and there are more than several conjectures and traditions around an identity.
In all there are about eight traditions based upon that story. Again I say: Hell has never been a doctrinal belief in Judaism.
Don't you think if Yahshua was to introduce a new doctrine that he would at least explain the story?
Hades ( /ˈheɪdiːz/; from Greek ᾍδης (older form Ἀϝίδης
, Hadēs, originally Ἅιδης, Haidēs or Άΐδης, Aidēs (Doric Ἀΐδας Aidas), meaning "the unseen")
was the ancient Greek god of the underworld. The genitive ᾍδου, Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades". Eventually, the nominative came to designate the abode of the dead.
In Greek mythology,
Hades is the oldest male child of Cronus and Rhea. According to myth, he and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated the Titans and claimed rulership over the cosmos, ruling the underworld, air, and sea, respectively; the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, was available to all three concurrently.
Hades was also called "Plouton" (Greek: Πλούτων, gen.: Πλούτωνος, meaning "Rich One"), a name which the Romans Latinized as Pluto. The Romans would associate Hades/Pluto with their own chthonic gods, Dis Pater and Orcus. The corresponding Etruscan god was Aita. Symbols associated with him are the Helm of Darkness, the bident and the three-headed dog, Cerberus.
Revelation 20:10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be (tormented / punished) day and night for ever and ever.
The words "torment throughout eternity" is not relevant, because in the second death, hades and death are done away with. Most likely the word "grave" was replaced with the word "Hades."
In English usage the word "Hades" first appears around 1600, as a term used to explain the article in the Apostles' Creed, "He descended into hell", where the place of waiting (the place of "the spirits in prison" 1 Peter 3:19 KJV) into which Jesus is there affirmed to have gone after the Crucifixion needed to be distinguished from what had come to be more usually called "hell", i.e. the place or state of those finally damned.
Revelation 20:14
Then death and
Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
Since Hell or Hades are done away with, there can be no eternal punishment, other than the condemned are cut off from the living for all eternity. Do you see what I am saying? In other words there is no one alive in a place called Hades. Scriptures say that God takes their life away from them. And like I have said before, the word "fire" is often used in a parabolic way to mean judgement.
I found one place where "coal" meant judgement, and some other places where "lightning," a type of fire, meant judgement. If there were a place called Hades with living being in it, then God lied, and the serpent told the truth.
I'm making a point, and I am not calling God a liar.
Because people die, unless saved by God, that means that life in Hades is a lie of the serpent. The serpent doctrine is that there is life in Hades, and people are being tortured for all eternity. That is a lie. Scriptures are written in such a way that they are self-correcting. The Catholics were from the Gnostic mystery schools, they believed in Hell and Trinitarianism. The Catholics killed off the original Christians, and replaced their scriptures with their own versions.
Daniel 8:12
Because of rebellion, the LORDs people and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and
truth was thrown to the ground.
Scripture is God's truth.
Catholic Gnosticism.
The attitude of the Catholic Church toward paganism is best summed up by Pope Gregory the Great, in his words to a missionary: You must not interfere with any traditional belief or religious observance that can be harmonized with Christianity.
Not only were the Congregations divided by Gnosticism, but enticed by philosophy and paganism also, and there were geographic divisions as well.
Pope Gregory 540 12 March 604.
Just a reminder that it was the Catholic Church that canonized scripture.
