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Sheol: is it a place or a state of being?

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Christian Universalism is true, that is, Christ will save all people. Because everyone will believe in Christ Jesus with faith alone. You also mention repentance. Repentance means when a person acknowledges that they have sin, that is, they understand that they are sinners and the wages of sin is death, thus realizing their need for a saviour.



ISAIAH 54:7-8 "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back. In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you," says the Lord your Redeemer.



Their graves, Sheol, the Lake of Fire, is the temporary mental anguish people feel when they realize that they have these sins. It's like the guilt of finding out you did something bad. From God's perspective, imagine you're a father and you find your son was playing outside and jumped into a big puddle of mud, even when you told them not too, and now they're all dirty. Well, they can't go inside the house and track up all that mud, they have to go out to the bath house outside and clean themselves up!



The Lake of Fire is a metaphor for when a blacksmith heats up iron ingots in a furnace (of affliction) so it can be molded into a desired shape. A metaphor of course, since it's really our spirits that get heated up by these flames of guilt.



ISAIAH 48:10 See, I have refined you ... I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.



A person can only change and be purified by sin by believing in Christ by faith alone, not of any good works, not by following the commandments, or upholding the law. Because we can only gain glorified bodies like Christ if we first believe in Christ, otherwise our good works are like filthy rags to the Lord.



ISAIAH 45:22-24 "Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth. By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear. They will say of me, `In the Lord alone are righteousness and strength.'"
 
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Do you honestly think God can't do it? If there ain't no hell what would it matter if a person had both his hands or not?
Matthew 5:29-30
(29) And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
(30) And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.​
 
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"עוֹלָ֔ם (ōwlām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769:
The original Hebrew word for 'everlasting' is correctly translated as 'age lasting'."
This statement is patently false. In the 1906 Jewish Publication Society [JPS] translation the Hebrew word "עוֹלָ֔ם (ōwlām) is translated "everlasting" 300+ times. It is never translated "age lasting!"
Link to JPS online: Online Bible
Daniel 12:2 from the JPS
2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence.​
 
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If this is true why would Christ have to forcibly drag people to Himself?
John 12:32
(32) And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.​
 
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