Still waiting for that verse that shows men can repent in the lake of fire!
Right... like the countless billions that have never heard the name of Christ. (not)
Then show a verse that shows men can repent in the lake of fire! remember the lake doesn't get populated until the end of time! I used to think they could be saved. Then I read the whole of Scripture.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
I await you showing me God sends missionaries to the lake of fire!
Romans 9:
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
If you read this as written and not reinterpreted through your restorationist bias- you will see that God fits people for destruction!
Even philosophically your restorationist hypothesis lacks logic.
People who die and are lost go into the place of torment that the rich man in Luke goes to. they stay there until the endo of natural time when Jesus commands the sea, death, and the grave to give up the dead in them (Rev. 20) Remember hell was the place of the dead. The nether or underworld. Jesus taught it and Israel and the early church believed it as well! That is why Jesus taught the true account of Lazarus and the rich man!
So if people have been in torment for 6 millenia- why wouldn't they have repented by the events of Rev. 20??? 6,000 years is not enough torment???
But remember that Jesus taught us about the place of the physically (but not spiritually non existent)
Luke 16:
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
A GREAT GULF FIXED, SO THAT PEOPLE CANNOT CROSS!!!
