Where is Timothew???
Looks like I won the Jude 1:13 argument and he left with his tail between his legs. (If this doesn't get him posting nothing will.)
I'm just tired of it. Jude 13 also says they are "wild waves of the sea". Hint hint, poetic language being used here. Jude is practically screaming this at you, but you are so dull, you can't see it.
You win the argument by sheer stubbornness.
OR you could read Jude (it's short) and learn from it.
Here it is:
New International Version
1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,
To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by
a Jesus Christ:
2Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
3Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.
4For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
5Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord
c delivered his people out of Egypt, but
later destroyed those who did not believe. 6And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
7In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion.
They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
8In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings.
9But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
10Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—
these are the very things that destroy them.
11Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error;
they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.
12These men are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—
twice dead.
13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones
15to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
16These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
17But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.
18They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”
19These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.
20But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.
21Keep yourselves in God’s love
as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
22Be merciful to those who doubt;
23snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.
24To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—
25to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
You can insist Jude 13 is literal, if you can show that the false teachers are actual waves and actual stars and if you can bring yourself to ignore the rest of Jude's words.
But you have your own way of looking at this, and nothing I say or anyone else is going to make you change your mind.
Are you trying to say that Timothew is right and that there is no eternal torment, just annihilation?
It isn't a question of me being right or wrong. I'm just quoting what the bible says. The bible is right, the bible says the wages of sin is death, not the wages of sin is eternal torment or eternal wandering. The bible says "these things destroy them", not these things cause eternal torment.
I'm not always going to respond to your taunts. If I don't, you can still assume that you are wrong.