willieH: Hi gradyll...
Jo Jo didn't answer the mathew verse She just said she didn't believe,.
As I said she MADE SENSE, where YOU do NOT.
gradyll said:
Who cares what other Christians believe, that shouldn't matter.
It matters what the Bible actually says.
Absolutely!
I agree, it DOES matter what the Bible actually SAYS... But
REASON must be an INTEGRAL part of understanding which is
TRUE --
Isaiah 1:18 -- and
HELL has no REASON or LOGIC to it whatsoever...
What is accomplished by it, gradyll? What justice is found in it gradyll? What MERCY is found in it gradyll? Where, in
HELL, ...is PAIN and SORROW become "passed away" --
Rev 21:4 -- gradyll?
You my friend, are (typically) presupposing that
YOUR observation, is what the Bible "ACTUALLY
SAYS"...

...and IN THAT, presupposing that the observation which JoJo takes is
NOT (by using YOUR VIEW as the measure of HERS), what that Bible "ACTUALLY
SAYS"...
Please!

Start with a fallible method (maintaining that your view is what the "Bible actually
SAYS"), and you shall SURELY, come to a fallible conclusion.
gradyll said:
Matt. 3:12 says, "And His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." (See also Luke 3:17.)
Mark 9:43 says, "And if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire." The word "unquenchable" is asbestos in the Greek. According to the enhanced Strong's lexicon, it means "unquenchable, the eternal hell fire to punish the damned."
The following citations are from Greek dictionaries and Lexicons. They show that the word "unquenchable," which is asbestos in the Greek, (which occurs only in Matt. 3:12, Luke 3:17, and Mark 9:43) means unquenchable, without end.
"unquenchable, inextinguishable"2
"not quenched"3
"pertaining to a fire that cannot be put out" - "unquenchable."4
"unquenched, unquenchable"5
"that cannot be put out"6
"inextinguishable"7
Is hell eternal? Yes it is. Are its fires without end? Yes they are. Is it a pleasant doctrine to discuss? Not really. But, hell is real. This is all the more reason to preach the gospel. Jesus said,
All scripture quotes are from the NASB.
2. Liddell, H. G., and Scott, Abridged Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Available Online: Logos Library System.
3. Vine, W. E., Vines Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell, 1981. Available: Logos Library System.
4. Louw, J. P. and Eugene A. Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains, New York: United Bible Societies, 1989.
5. Enhanced Strongs Lexicon, Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, 1995. Available: Logos Library System.
6. Wigram-Green, The New Englishman's Greek Concordance and Lexicon, Peabody MA: Hendrikson Publishers, 1982, p. 771.
7. Arndt, W. A., F. Wilbur Gingrich, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 2nd ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979, p. 114.
FIRST -- ADDRESSING the words "ETERNAL" (everlasting & forever)
You (nor does anyone else, including me) ...have no right to use the word
ETERNAL (let alone apply it to any other finite person, you being finite yourself), as you do not COMPREHEND its meaning. So any applications you make to any other FINITE are invalid, as you do not understand the term you use.
The words "everlasting, eternal and forever" include in definition -- WITHOUT BEGINNING.
Until you can CLEARLY explain HOW anything (including GOD) is without beginning, then you use these words INVALIDLY, as you do not COMPREHEND them nor their meaning.
SECOND -- The
FIRE you suggest to be "ETERNAL" which is "UNQUENCHED", does not continue endlessly --
Jude 6 -- concerning the
FIRE [PUR] ...of Sodom & Gomorrah
(1) started (which disqualfies it from being ETERNAL) once was not burning.
(2) ended (which disqualifies it from being ETERNAL) no longer burning.
The same word in -- AIONIOS -- translated ETERNAL, in --
Jude 6 -- appears in the above proposed verses.
"UNQUENCHED" means that it shall not be EXTINGUISHED (which is what "asbestos" presents), until the purpose of the
FIRE is FULFILLED... GOD is about creating MAN in His own IMAGE... which is yet to be fulfilled. Until it is, and ALL have been processed, the
FIRE (of time) --
1 Cor 3:11-15 -- Mark 9:44-49 -- shall continue to bring IN THAT PROCESS, ...suffering, teaching and death... which are
ALL part of the process --
Heb 2:10 -- Rom 9:21 -- 1 Cor 15:22, 42-50 -- Isaiah 26:9
GOD is a
CONSUMING FIRE. --
Heb 12:29 -- ANYTHING which is
CONSUMED, is NO LONGER existent. The
CHAFF is that which is
CONSUMED, ...and which is an INHERENT part of the
WHEAT!
THIRD -- Ask ANY farmer about "wheat and chaff", bro...

...they are 2 components of the SAME entity! Just as the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL are 2 components of the SAME KNOWLEDGE.
FOURTH -- the Word used in your above verses (
Matt. 3:12, Luke 3:17, and
Mark 9:43) is --
PUR -- #G4442 -- This word is used in both literal or figurative senses. However when it is applied
in the SPIRIT, is no longer is FINITELY literal, for it enters into the realm of the
SPIRIT. HELL is nothing but fleshly stagnation incorporated in the observation of the
WORD...
There are many examples of
PUR used in the NT:
(1) which is the
same word used in --
Rev 20:15 -- Lake of
FIRE...
(2) which is ALSO the
same word used in --
Mark 9:44-49 -- concerning
FIRE applied to EVERY MAN...
(3) which is ALSO the
same word used in --
Rev 3:18 -- which
FIRE tried the gold of
CHRIST...
(4) which is ALSO
same word is used in --
1 Pet 1:7 -- which proposes that
YOUR works will be tried in that SAME
FIRE, Gradyll...
(5) which is ALSO the
same word used in --
1 Cor 3:11-15 -- which
FIRE, saves the ONE which has been IN IT... which is EVERY MAN...
It AMAZES me, that "
Hell" proponents... use the passage in --
Mark 9 -- to back their doctrine, ...and ALWAYS conveniently STOP at --
Mark 9:48!
For
Mark 9:49 SAYS:
Mark 9:49 --
for EVERY ONE shall be salted with ...FIRE... [
PUR]
and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
The NEGATIVE obsession of the modern ORTHODOX church to take GOD's BELOVED ones, made in His own IMAGE -- John 3:16-17 -- and which CHRIST died for -- Rom 5:6 -- 1 Tim 2:6 -- is the existent and INIQUITOUS TONGUE of GEHENNA which is clearly CONDEMNED by the Apostle James -- James 3:6-10 -- as HYPOCRITICAL... and the undoing of the fountain of TRUTH. And James clearly SAYS: "OUGHT NOT SO TO BE!"
Dire SHAME awaits the MANY ...which, in DECEPTION, preach this ugly and UNMERCIFUL doctrine, to God's (and CHRIST's) beloved children -- Matt 7:22-23 -- Matt 24:5 -- who are claiming they "come in His name", and yet preach INIQUITY... and are NOT KNOWN by Him, accordingly.
It is MUCH more IMPERITIVE for
YOU to be "KNOWN"
by CHRIST, then for
HIM to "KNOWN",
by you. --
Matt 7:23 --
"I never KNEW YOU"
Shall you hear His voice, gradyll? Or continue bringing this awful ("
HELLISH") representation of
LOVE to those you encounter, while upon the earth?
Peace...
...willieH
