Would God Really Send Someone to Hell?

Light of the East said:

The problem with the post you quoted is some folks, to make scripture fit their assumptions/presuppositions, concoct their own definitions for Greek words. The Greek word "aionios" is an adjective, the English word "age" is a noun. An adjective cannot be translated as a noun.
Except that adjectives meanings are defined by the noun they define. Example: a tall dog, a tall horse, a tall building. Is a tall dog the same "tall" as a "building." Nonsense. Universalists do admit that under certain circumstances, aionios can mean "eternal," but only when the noun it describes is GOD.
BTW - you have never addressed the issue I brought up regarding the character of a God who would create human beings for the sole purpose of tormenting them forever. We despise human beings who breed dogs for the sole purpose of being "bait" for training pit bulls to fight. We consider them as horrendous and evil human beings. Yet you have no problem with a God who, foreknowing that mankind would fall into sin, and by doing so, would condemn billions to an eternity of terrible torments, went ahead and did the creation anyway, which means that the Calvinists (and their atrocious doctrine of predestination to damnation) are correct and God intended torment for the billions from the very beginning. There is more to this issue than just a couple of Greek words. The whole character of God is at stake.

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Der Alte said:

Irrelevant biased emotional argumentation. There is no such rule that "aionios only means eternal when it refers to God." If you wish to use grammatical arguments go find an accredited Greek grammar and argue from that NOT what a bunch of UR scholar wannabes claim. Meanwhile the words of Jesus again. See my post quoting Matthew 25:46 EOB.

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LW97Nils said:

What translation is the EOB? I am not familiar with it.

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Der Alte said:

Eastern Greek Orthodox, translated by native Greek speaking scholars. Them other folks want to argue but they can't argue with these two translations. Here is a link

The New Testament ( The Eastern-Greek Orthodox Bible) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The New Testament (The Eastern-Greek Orthodox Bible)

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For the O.T. The 1906 Jewish Publication Society [JPS]

Online Bible

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LW97Nils said:

Thanks. I shall have a look at it. I used to be a staunch KJV onylist for four years, then I got into the YLT (Young Literal's Translation) as well as the TT (Thomson's Translation).

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