Hell discrepencies in scripture

[sickntired771]

"And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth"Matt 13:50


"http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matthew 8.12#footnote0while the sons of the kingdom http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matthew 8.12#footnote1will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matt 8:12

How can hell be both a place of darkness and a place of fire (which creates light)?

 

[lesliedellow]

"And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth"Matt 13:50


"http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matthew 8.12#footnote0while the sons of the kingdom http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matthew 8.12#footnote1will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matt 8:12

How can hell be both a place of darkness and a place of fire (which creates light)?

Any language about heaven or hell is symbolical/metaphorical. You can't treat metaphors as if they were uncomplicated descriptions of everyday objects.

 

[throughfierytrial]

I do believe that where outer darkness is used that Scripture refers to the reality that being separated from God is deepest darkness/God is light. Where Scripture adds weeping and gnashing of teeth that does not make it a contradiction b/c hell can be the reality of darkness due to separation and the suffering of hell fires.

 

[ebia]

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm

 

[sickntired771]

If its a figurative darkness I guess that makes sense.

 

[ebia]

If its a figurative darkness I guess that makes sense.

and a figurative fire?

 

[football5680]

The Bible uses symbolism, not everything is supposed to be taken literally.

 

[Archie the Preacher]

If one reads the texts, one notes that in no event is Hell considered a desirable place even to visit, let alone to 'live' there eternally. One also notes the reason the inhabitants are located there is the ignoring of the commands and will of God.

With those thoughts in mind, I have a question: The originator seems so concerned over two different descriptions of a very nasty place? What's the point of the question?

 

[Albion]

Besides, every furnace room or foundry that I've ever seen certainly IS dark. The flames themselves may not be, but everything else is.

 

[brinny]

"And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth"Matt 13:50


"http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matthew 8.12#footnote0while the sons of the kingdom http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matthew 8.12#footnote1will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matt 8:12

How can hell be both a place of darkness and a place of fire (which creates light)?

Are you assuming that what will be is limited by our current finite awareness and reality based on what we can see, touch, feel, sense, experience now in this present state?

Our awareness is severely limited at this time, is it not?

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." ~I Corinthians 13:12

Thank you kindly.

 

[ByTheSpirit]

As someone already said, outer darkness is a reference to being absent from God's presence who is light. We know the absence of light is dark and in hell there is NO presence of God, so that is very much outer darkness where weeping and gnashing of teeth occur.

 

[Job8]

Imagine outer darkness is beyond outer space, and within that section God has placed the Lake of Fire to remain there for eternity.

IOW He has distanced sin and evil from His righteous universe in the future, and this is how He has done it. No contradiction whatsoever.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

Because Jesus isn't speaking about Hell when He specifies the "outer darkness."