I was also thorough, so how did we arrive at such different conclusions? I know that I tried to not have any preconceptions when I began.
It is the same Holy Ghost we pray to, I assume. I never want to be misled, nor do I wish to mislead anyone. The Mormons want to know the same thing, they pray to and insist the Holy Ghost has led them to believe the BOM is true and so says every denomination. I know the Holy Ghost will not teach a doctrine that is contrary to the word of God.
Isa_8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Mormons rely on a burning bosom---I rely on the word of God and so do you. You tell me---for I can not see Uni. in His word. Nor Mormonism (God was never a man who became human!). There is way too much scripture that says the wicked will pay in the lake of fire with their lives, no verse says anyone comes out of the lake of fire. It says they go in, too many verses that says the wicked will be ashes under our feet--not one says those ashes will come back up to live with God. I ignore no verses. To me, the word that all are reconciled to Him, means all have that option available, not that it is guaranteed without their consent. Everything I read includes the individual making a decided stand to follow Jesus and live according to His word. Not one verse says even Satan will spend eternity with God--it clearly says He will not, nor his angels---that includes anyone who follows him, you are either for Him or against Him.
Luk_11:23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
I can not ignore these verses, nor give a different meaning to the word perish.
Mat_5:29 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.
Mat_5:30 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.
Luk_13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Joh_3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh_3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh_10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
1Co_1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
2Th_2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Pe_2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2Pe_3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
deathy, devour, perish, destroy, ashes, ---or eternal life with Jesus. Only 2 choices, there is no 3rd.
There are 2 deaths, the death--sleep---which we all must do---and the 2nd death, from which the saved are shielded and from which there is no more awakening. I can not come with any other version. I do not decide the outsome, Glod doeds, and He has stated that outcome.
