Gentlemen don't incinerate you for snubbing them.It's anything but inescapable.
God is also a gentleman in my experience. He doesn't take those who don't want him.
It's a translation issue. What is the NT Greek word for "ever"?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 day and night for ever and ever.
Can you then logically demonstrate how he can be tormented day and night for ever and ever and eventually be saved at the same time? How can someone that is saved be tormented while in a saved state? Being tormented day and night for ever and ever is not compatable with being saved day and night for ever and ever, is it?
αἰών (from a root meaning life, especially long life, old age), an age, a cycle (of time), especially of the present age as contrasted with the future age, and of one of a series of ages stretching to infinity: ἀπʼ αἰῶνος, from the beginning of the present age, from the beginning of time, Lk. 1:70, &c.: εἰς αἰῶνα (in saeculum, in aeternum, Ambros. expos, ps. cxviii. 12 7 § 1) αἰῶνες αἰώνων, a Hebraistic expression, more emphatic than the simple αἰῶνες Gal. 1:5, &c.It's a translation issue. What is the NT Greek word for "ever"?
Aionios mistranslated as "eternal" and "everlasting" in Matthew 25:46.
Thanks for not incinerating me.We already covered that territory before. No need for a repeat.
It's anything but inescapable.
God is also a gentleman in my experience. He doesn't take those who don't want him.
Unless as with Pharoah, where God had another plan (Exodus 4:21-24) for Pharaoh which God did not reveal to him, so God has another plan instead of the "universalism" which you think is "inescapable."
Are you familiar with what is called the "Harrowing of Hell"?
Ages of ages is eternal
Jesus never mentions hell. He speaks of Gehenna and Hades mainly. Now which one are you saying is the medieval torture dungeon you're so enamoured with?
Bible Gateway passage: Luke 16:19-31 - New International Version
I know it's called Hades and not Hell, but it doesn't sound like Lazarus is getting out anytime soon...
What a comically sadistic fate that would be. God waking up the dead, only to deliver them to a fate far worse.
... it appears to me that the rich man is already pretty wide awake ... ? Perhaps moreso than he was during his earthly life. Is there some badly translated Hebrew nuance of "woke" in play here ... ?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?