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And again! I have repeatedly told you aionios can be a limited duration if modifed.
That's your bare naked opinion. I gave my opinion fully clothed, i.e. with evidence. Who is a judge going to believe has been caught with their pants down. You or me.
All the examples you gave on your other site are passages that describe limited durations!
Considering that you've admitted that yet have provided no proof of even a single instance of aionion in all of ancient Koine Greek, whether in or outside of Scripture, ever meaning "eternal", the weight of evidence thus far is obviously very weighty against your bare naked opinion.
It is you and your other fellows that have decided that aionios also must be of limited duration in the lake of fire and can only mean eternal when referring to heaven!
I have stated no such position. Furthermore there are multiple views of the meaning of aionion, not only by universalists but also by lexicons, scholars & Christians of various views not called universalism. Moreover, since you provided no scripture references, what verses you are referring to, if they even exist, is unknown.
YOu stand in stark opposition to th evast super majority of the greek speaking world and greek translating world!
1) Perhaps that has to do with it (a) being the last days, or (b) Satan being god of this wicked world, or (c) endless hell biased translators parroting one another for filthy lucre or reputation or to not lose their job or to line up with denominational creeds, or (d) that words often change their meaning in 1500+ years, or (e) that's built upon many centuries of the endlesss torturing dogma of the "church" of "holy crusades", Inquisitors torturing "heretics" to make them recant, burning those of dissenting theologies at the stake, & much more bad fruit identifying such.
2) At what time of history? In the early church?:
In the early church universalism was the orthodox (biblical) view & may have been the orthodox (majority) view for centuries (see urls below) prior to the dark ages of ignorance, illiteracy, lack of education & bibles for the common man It may also be today, or be on the way to becoming so, in this more enlightened "internet age", the majority Christian view (see urls below):
Early Church Writings Fathers:
Church Fathers & Universalism since Early Church times
Indeed Very Many: Universalism in the Early Church
Early church writings re final destiny (paradise, Gospel, incarnation, Jehovah) - Christianity - - City-Data Forum
Articles on the history of Christian Universalism throughout the centuries
https://s3.amazonaws.com/unsearchablerich/booksonwebsite/©CPC+The+Ancient+History+of+Universalism.pdf
http://www.tentmaker.org/books/Prevailing.shtml
Lawrence R. Farley
And like a Russellite or Mormon you have believed the originator of this fallacy that there is some vast super conspiracy that has blinded the 99+% of the believing world into thinking that aionios when it comes to punishment means eternal !
Really, 99%? Have there been surveys taken i'm not aware of? An outspoken against universalism "father" of the Eastern Orthodox church recently wrote that there are "many" universalists within his denomination. Even recent Popes of the RCC have held out hope for universalism. That has been called "hopeful universalism". I wonder how many Catholics, which is the largest denomination & followed by the 2nd largest denomination, the aforementioned EOC, are universalists or "hopeful universalists".
It seems you are more interested in majority opinions than truth. See the urls above. The scribes & Phaisees, the scholars of Jesus' mortal day (c. 30 AD), were often opposed to the Truth. How about the scholars during the dark ages? Would you have blindly followed them also. Didn't Jesus say something about the blind leading the blind. If most believe the earth is the center of the universe & the sun revolves around it, would you blindly accept that also without evidence but blind faith in some scholarly popes? Who is your pope?
Sorry, still waiting for a verse that shows there is repentance in the lake of fire!
In the absence of any saying "there is no repentance there but endless sadistic tortures by a God who is supposed to be Love Omnipotent", the burden of proof lies totally with you to prove that the Father of all created beings is such a being. Universalists here and all over the internet & in dozens of books available on Amazon, etc, have provided plenty of scriptural evidence to the contrary.
If endless conscious torments were true, is God a monster?
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