An eternal hell for a finite crime?

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I like to hear your honest answer to this. Assume you are the God (assume God exists) and you created the universe and beings in the universe. If so, do you think you would have also created an eternal hell for a finite crime?

(I will never do it regardless of the type of sin a person commits, and I think so many people out there will never like to give such a harsh punishment regardless of the type of sin either. What does it mean? For me, this implies that there are so many human beings who are more compassionate than God. But how can you find so many human beings on Earth who are more compassionate than God himself?)
 
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This is one of the most theologically confused subjects in the Bible.

There is no eternal hell in the Bible but I can understand how the wording can be misinterpreted. For example Revelation 20:10 says, "The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." Now if we read only this verse on the subject of hell, of course we will think hell is eternal. But the Bible has more to say on this subject in both Testaments. When we read most of what the Bible has to say on this subject it becomes very clear that hell is not eternal.

God who is loving and compassionate would never punish any of His beings for eternity and He won't.

Biblically the wicked are not immortal.

If the wicked or unbelievers were to be punished for eternity that would make them immortal. Immortality in the Bible is only promised to the righteous people not the unrighteous.

John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." But what about those who don't believe in him? They surely will perish. The Bible says, "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). The wicked are never promised life. They are promised death, eternal death. Only the righteous are promised life, eternal life.

1 John 5:11-12, "And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." Will the the wicked ones in the lake of fire have the Son of God? Of course not. Then how could they have life? John says, "Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him" (1 John 3:15). Will those murderers in hell-fire continue to have life for eternity? Never.

Eternal life can only be obtained through Jesus Christ. It would be the rankest heresy to believe that eternal life could be obtained from some other source than Jesus. Where would the wicked get it from? Paul declares that Jesus Christ "hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" (2 Timothy 1:10). There is no text in the Bible that says the wicked will be immortal. If the wicked live eternally in the fire, then they have the same thing as the righteous except in a different place. Who could give them eternal life but Christ?

Those who do not believe in the only begotten Son will perish. They will die. They will die the second death, an eternal death from which they will never be raised. That death will never end. It is an endless, eternal punishment, because it is an endless, eternal death.
 
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The "unquenchable fire" or "eternal fire."

What does this mean? Does this mean the fire is eternal even though the wicked will die eternally? Of course, it doesn't. To quench means to extinguish or put out. No one will be able to put out the fire of hell. That is the strange fire of God. No one will be able to escape from it by extinguishing it. Isaiah says of that fire, "Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before it" (Isaiah 47:14). After it has accomplished its work of destruction, that fire will go out. No one can deliver themselves from its flame by putting it out, but finally not a coal will be left. So say the Scriptures.

Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would burn with a fire that could not be quenched (Jeremiah 17:27), but it burned down to ashes (2 Chronicles 36:19-21). Read those verses and see how the Bible uses the word "quench." It does not mean fire that will never go out. It only means what it says, "unquenchable." It can't be quenched.

And what can we say about the expressions "eternal" "everlasting" which are used to describe the fires of hell? There is absolutely no confusion or contradiction when we allow the Bible to supply its own definition of terms. Many make the mistake of applying modern definitions to those biblical words without reference to their an- cient contextual usage. This violates one of the most fundamental rules of interpretation.

The fact is that eternal fire does not mean a fire that will never go out. The same expression is used in Jude 7 concerning the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha. "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."

It is quite obvious that Sodom is not still burning today. The Dead Sea rolls over the place where those ancient cities once stood. Yet they burned with "eternal fire," and we are told that it was an example of something. What is it an example of? "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly" (2 Peter 2:6).

There it is! That eternal fire which brought Sodom to ashes is an example of what will finally happen to the wicked. If this text is true, the same kind of fire that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha will also burn the wicked in the lake of fire. It will have to be eternal fire. Does that mean it will also burn the wicked to ashes? The Bible says Yes. "For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch ... And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts" (Malachi 4:1, 3).

No words of any language could make it more forceful or clear. This eternal fire burns up eternally. Even Satan, the root, is finally consumed. How consistent the whole picture appears as we let the Bible explain its own terms. What devious manipulation of words would be required to evade the obvious meaning of these words. Yet those who have been prejudiced by a lifetime of tradition can read those words "burn them up ... they shall be ashes" and still insist that the wicked are alive and suffering. Admittedly, there are some ambiguous verses on this subject, but we are finding that they all harmonize when the context is considered, and the Bible is allowed to be its own commentary.

Even Christ's words in Matthew 25:46 are not confusing when we know the obvious meaning. "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." Many are troubled over the expression, "everlasting punishment," but notice that it does not say "everlasting punishing." Whatever the punishment is, it will last eternally. Does the Bible tell us what the punishment is? Of course. "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). So Jesus was simply saying that the death would be everlasting. It would never end. It would never be broken by a resurrection.

Paul simplifies it further with these words: "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished ... " Now, listen, Paul is going to tell us what the punishment is. "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power" (2 Thessalonians 1:8, 9). So the punishment is everlasting destruction - a destruction that is everlasting. From it there will be no resurrection or hope of life.


 

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You Can't. We are all God with embeded bodies, if people truly knew who they were they would destroy their selves. We are modified in a way we can see ourselves more you looking at the mirror but can see your back unless you mirror the back.

The only thing keeping life this long is its secret. If men or God full know the secrets of itself you figurit out.

Look at the little knowledge man and God have all end in distraction all in the name of power. Believe me, its better you dont know at all. Beause knowing only brings destruction no matter how peaceful it sounds. Hell is just a construct of the mind like every other words invented by men, dont abide in it else you will lured into same trap. Just be you and live simple.
 

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The "unquenchable fire" or "eternal fire."

What does this mean? Does this mean the fire is eternal even though the wicked will die eternally? Of course, it doesn't. To quench means to extinguish or put out. No one will be able to put out the fire of hell. That is the strange fire of God. No one will be able to escape from it by extinguishing it. Isaiah says of that fire, "Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before it" (Isaiah 47:14). After it has accomplished its work of destruction, that fire will go out. No one can deliver themselves from its flame by putting it out, but finally not a coal will be left. So say the Scriptures.

Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would burn with a fire that could not be quenched (Jeremiah 17:27), but it burned down to ashes (2 Chronicles 36:19-21). Read those verses and see how the Bible uses the word "quench." It does not mean fire that will never go out. It only means what it says, "unquenchable." It can't be quenched.

And what can we say about the expressions "eternal" "everlasting" which are used to describe the fires of hell? There is absolutely no confusion or contradiction when we allow the Bible to supply its own definition of terms. Many make the mistake of applying modern definitions to those biblical words without reference to their an- cient contextual usage. This violates one of the most fundamental rules of interpretation.

The fact is that eternal fire does not mean a fire that will never go out. The same expression is used in Jude 7 concerning the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha. "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."

It is quite obvious that Sodom is not still burning today. The Dead Sea rolls over the place where those ancient cities once stood. Yet they burned with "eternal fire," and we are told that it was an example of something. What is it an example of? "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly" (2 Peter 2:6).

There it is! That eternal fire which brought Sodom to ashes is an example of what will finally happen to the wicked. If this text is true, the same kind of fire that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha will also burn the wicked in the lake of fire. It will have to be eternal fire. Does that mean it will also burn the wicked to ashes? The Bible says Yes. "For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch ... And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts" (Malachi 4:1, 3).

No words of any language could make it more forceful or clear. This eternal fire burns up eternally. Even Satan, the root, is finally consumed. How consistent the whole picture appears as we let the Bible explain its own terms. What devious manipulation of words would be required to evade the obvious meaning of these words. Yet those who have been prejudiced by a lifetime of tradition can read those words "burn them up ... they shall be ashes" and still insist that the wicked are alive and suffering. Admittedly, there are some ambiguous verses on this subject, but we are finding that they all harmonize when the context is considered, and the Bible is allowed to be its own commentary.

Even Christ's words in Matthew 25:46 are not confusing when we know the obvious meaning. "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." Many are troubled over the expression, "everlasting punishment," but notice that it does not say "everlasting punishing." Whatever the punishment is, it will last eternally. Does the Bible tell us what the punishment is? Of course. "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). So Jesus was simply saying that the death would be everlasting. It would never end. It would never be broken by a resurrection.

Paul simplifies it further with these words: "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished ... " Now, listen, Paul is going to tell us what the punishment is. "Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power" (2 Thessalonians 1:8, 9). So the punishment is everlasting destruction - a destruction that is everlasting. From it there will be no resurrection or hope of life.


Everlasting means it lasts forver. Unquenchable means it cannot be quenched. Hell is forever
 

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Everlasting means it lasts forver. Unquenchable means it cannot be quenched. Hell is forever
Biblically the unquenchable fire means no one will be able to put out the fire until it has accomplished its work. Isaiah pronounced doom upon Edom, saying that "It shall not be quenched night or day; Its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; No one shall pass through it forever and ever" (Isaiah 34:10). But the fire went out after everything was burned up. The smoke went up, but is not continuing to do so. Ezekiel used the same terminology in Ezekiel 20:47-48. Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would burn with a fire that could not be quenched (Jeremiah 17:27), but it burned down to ashes (2 Chronicles 36:19-21).

The fact is that eternal fire does not mean a fire that will never go out. The same expression is used in Jude 7 concerning the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha. "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Sodom is not still burning today. "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly" (2 Peter 2:6).

The results of the fire are/will be eternal. The Bible tells us the wicked will burn to ashes (Malachi 4:1, 3)

Plus hell is going to be here on earth but the Bible tells the New Earth of God will be in this newly re created earth.

Also if Hell was forever that would make the wicked immortal, the only people who are promised immortality in the Bible are the righteous. The wicked including Satan and his angels will all die eternally, never to exist again. When "forever" is used to describe the wicked, we are talking about mortal creatures who can die and must die. Their "forever" is only as long as their mortal nature can survive in the fire which punishes them according to their works.

There is no confusion or contradiction in the Bible if we allow the Bible to explain itself. We should not make the mistake of applying modern definitions to those biblical words without reference to their ancient contextual usage. This violates one of the most fundamental rules of interpretation.

Link and link.
 

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Biblically the unquenchable fire means no one will be able to put out the fire until it has accomplished its work. Isaiah pronounced doom upon Edom, saying that "It shall not be quenched night or day; Its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; No one shall pass through it forever and ever" (Isaiah 34:10). But the fire went out after everything was burned up. The smoke went up, but is not continuing to do so. Ezekiel used the same terminology in Ezekiel 20:47-48. Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would burn with a fire that could not be quenched (Jeremiah 17:27), but it burned down to ashes (2 Chronicles 36:19-21).

The fact is that eternal fire does not mean a fire that will never go out. The same expression is used in Jude 7 concerning the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha. "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Sodom is not still burning today. "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly" (2 Peter 2:6).

The results of the fire are/will be eternal. The Bible tells us the wicked will burn to ashes (Malachi 4:1, 3)

Plus hell is going to be here on earth but the Bible tells the New Earth of God will be in this newly re created earth.

Also if Hell was forever that would make the wicked immortal, the only people who are promised immortality in the Bible are the righteous. The wicked including Satan and his angels will all die eternally, never to exist again. When "forever" is used to describe the wicked, we are talking about mortal creatures who can die and must die. Their "forever" is only as long as their mortal nature can survive in the fire which punishes them according to their works.

There is no confusion or contradiction in the Bible if we allow the Bible to explain itself. We should not make the mistake of applying modern definitions to those biblical words without reference to their ancient contextual usage. This violates one of the most fundamental rules of interpretation.

Link and link.
Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

So everlasting doesn't really mean everlasting?
 

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Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

So everlasting doesn't really mean everlasting?
Have you read the scripture I posted? Everything has to be read and understood within context. That is why we need to study the Bible.

Everlasting contempt for the wicked and Satan and his angels means the everlasting consequences of hell. They will die forever and will never exist again. Remember the Bible does not contradict itself, its us people who misinterpret it.
 

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Have you read the scripture I posted? Everything has to be read and understood within context. That is why we need to study the Bible.

Everlasting contempt for the wicked and Satan and his angels means the everlasting consequences of hell. They will die forever and will never exist again. Remember the Bible does not contradict itself, its us people who misinterpret it.
Both the verses I quoted were in context. The difference between my thinking and yours is I believe it when it says everlasting, and you only believe it when it says it in context of God, and not hell.

Its you who are using Edom as an example and juxtaposing it onto hell. So when it says "when their worm dieth not' and the fire shall not be quenched" somehow turns into a soul death doctrine that can only be explained by using the story about Edom as a way to explain it all away. Only people I know that teach this doctrine are seventh day adventists.
 

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Some people only want GOD's words to be literal when they want them to fit what they need them to.
 

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Both the verses I quoted were in context. The difference between my thinking and yours is I believe it when it says everlasting, and you only believe it when it says it in context of God, and not hell.

Its you who are using Edom as an example and juxtaposing it onto hell. So when it says "when their worm dieth not' and the fire shall not be quenched" somehow turns into a soul death doctrine that can only be explained by using the story about Edom as a way to explain it all away. Only people I know that teach this doctrine are seventh day adventists.
You've misinterpreted them and it contradicts the rest of scripture on the subject. Also you need to study what the entire Bible says on the subject then you will see that what I'm telling you is the truth of the Bible not my thinking. I haven't posted all that scripture here obviously.
 
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Some people only want GOD's words to be literal when they want them to fit what they need them to.
That's not me. I want to understand the truth of God's Word so I can do His will and His will only. Obviously this has got to be coupled with faith otherwise its dead works.
 
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You've misinterpreted them and it contradicts the rest of scripture on the subject. Also you need to study what the entire Bible says on the subject then you will see that what I'm telling is the truth of the Bible not my thinking. I haven't all that scripture here obviously.
your point is moot anyway, because Isaiah 34 is talking about the end times....Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
 

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That's not me. I want to understand the truth of God's Word so I can do His will and His will only. Obviously this has got to be coupled with faith otherwise its dead works.
Didn't say it was you. Meant as a broad statement. And i respect your response a lot.
 

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your point is moot anyway, because Isaiah 34 is talking about the end times....Isaiah 34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
I haven't yet responded to Jesus' Words "when their worm dieth not'.

Mark 9:43-47 says, "If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— where ‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— where 'Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire."

Some have interpreted the worm to be the soul. Is that what Jesus meant? Nowhere in the Bible is there any allusion to the soul as a worm.

In this instance Jesus used the word "Gehenna" for the word "hell." It so happened that Gehenna was an actual place of burning just outside the walls of Jerusalem. No doubt, Christ's listeners could see the smoke curling up from the Valley of Gehenna, where dead bodies and garbage were constantly being burned. If anything fell outside the destructive flames, it was quickly consumed by maggots or worms. With the vivid scenes of utter extinction before their eyes, Jesus used the Gehenna fire as an example of the complete destruction of hell-fire. The fire was never quenched, and the worms were constantly at work upon the bodies-a picture of total destruction.

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible consistently teaches that the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), not eternal life in torment in hell. Jesus said, "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28). Jesus the only One who can bestow the gift of life, rejects the possibility that those in hell can continue to live in any form whatsoever. The life will be snuffed out for eternity, and the body will be annihilated in the flames.
 
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I haven't yet responded to Jesus' Words "when their worm dieth not'.

Mark 9:43-47 says, "If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— where ‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— where 'Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire."

Some have interpreted the worm to be the soul. Is that what Jesus meant? Nowhere in the Bible is there any allusion to the soul as a worm.

In this instance Jesus used the word "Gehenna" for the word "hell." It so happened that Gehenna was an actual place of burning just outside the walls of Jerusalem. No doubt, Christ's listeners could see the smoke curling up from the Valley of Gehenna, where dead bodies and garbage were constantly being burned. If anything fell outside the destructive flames, it was quickly consumed by maggots or worms. With the vivid scenes of utter extinction before their eyes, Jesus used the Gehenna fire as an example of the complete destruction of hell-fire. The fire was never quenched, and the worms were constantly at work upon the bodies-a picture of total destruction.

From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible consistently teaches that the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), not eternal life in torment in hell. Jesus said, "And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28). Jesus the only One who can bestow the gift of life, rejects the possibility that those in hell can continue to live in any form whatsoever. The life will be snuffed out for eternity, and the body will be annihilated in the flames.
Micah 4 is speaking of the end times as well. The other two just state the fire would be unquenched.

Like I stated on another thread, the second death is the lake of fire, that's the biblical definition of it. It obviously doesn't mean a literal does as it goes on to state its forever. When the Bible says forever or everlasting, that's what it means.

Gehenna means hell. So does "the pit" that's mentioned in the OT. When Gehenna is translated back into Hebrew its hell. The Hebrew word for hell is Gehenna.
 

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Kill and destroy aren't the same words. Destroy can mean to ruin someone or something. If it meant kill, the translators would have translated it as such, especially since the word kill is used in the same verse.
 
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