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Hell-Eternal or Temporary

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Spikey4672

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So i made a thread a long time ago about if hell was real and it got a lot of good feed back but my view has changed since then

So my question know is is hell a temporary place or a eternal place? Are souls sent there to be punsihed forever or to burn up? Well in my opinion it is temporary and here is why

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1. Hell was created for the angels soul. God did not intend for humans to be in hell, and since angels and humans are different beings their souls must be different. The humans soul was not designed to be in eternal punishment and thus will do what it is programmed to do...perish.

2. Sin is sin is sin, but i believe there is levels of sin, otherwise God would not have some things listed as abominations and he cannot say in Matthew 10:15 that it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement if all sins are equal. A good example i think is the parable of the seeds. Those whose seeds fall on the wayside so to speak and willfully and knowingly reject God will have a greater punishment then those who simply said i have plenty of time

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Matthew 10:28 Straight to the point

However i am still open minded and would love some people to oppose my view or agree

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I'm pretty sure the bible makes it clear that hell is eternal.

They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might
- 2 Thessalonians 1:9


“These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Matthew 25:46


I believe whoever sins and has not received our Lord Jesus Christ, deserves hell.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:23
 
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Good points rustom but i would like to ask a question, if the wages of sin is death, how can one die eternally? I believe Hebrews 9:27 says that it is appointed for men to die once and then the judgement. How would this fit into an eternal act of dying?
 
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Rather than viewing salvation as a "get out of Hell free" card, let's start viewing it as a "get into Heaven free" card. This recent focus on what is Hell brings a legalistic and unloving approach to the Gospel. Christ's message was about bringing the Kingdom, not saving souls. I don't understand the shift to the present.

To answer your question, I believe that souls simply burn up due to incompatibility. This "Lake of Fire" is God's love, and it burns up the unrighteous. Since it has already burned our unrighteousness away, we will not be burned. But those unsaved will. If it truly is a "second death", and in the first death you stop existing, it follows that a second death would have you stop existing.

And to question your view on the angels, I don't think angels need to have a different soul than us for this view to work. I believe Satan and his hosts will burn up as well in the Lake of Fire. The difference between the angels and us is that we are triune, meaning we have a mind, body, and spirit(semantics). We are created in God's image of triune existence.
 
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I believe whoever sins and has not received our Lord Jesus Christ, deserves hell.

If either heaven or hell as the bible explains them are real, I would want to go to hell. Heaven sounds like a horrid place. Reason being is that being there causes you to be brainwashed, and it makes you into someone you are not. Well that is unless you were a heartless bastard in the first place. For example, there is supposed to be no suffering or pain in heaven. I know that if I were roasting in hell for all eternity, my parents and grandparents would be distraught with sadness. Apparently in heaven this does not exist, therefore they wouldn't be the same people that died on earth.

On top of that, I would never again worship someone who committed the atrocities that the god of the bible is said to have committed.

Also I find it incredibly sad that people actually think that anyone who does not love their god, or Jesus if you prefer, deserves eternal suffering. I also find it sad that someone could find a god that thinks the same way to be anything better than scum, let alone the most moral being to have existed.
 
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If hell is not eternal, then it falls under universalism or annhilationism.
 
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