Avery....good to see you. Hell is not temporal. Hell is the second death and is very much eternal. It should stand to reason if there is an eternal reward, there is also an eternal punishment for it is appointed unto men once to die then the judgment. We only have one shot at this and to please God. There is no get out of hell free card and there are only 2 forces in the world and that is good and evil. Logic can determine who controls which force.
Jul 27
7:10 PM
well that is what i believed until my crazy cousins says that hell is temporary. That the actually die not burn forever. and she says that God wouldn't punish someone like that. but She is forgetting the big picture of God. God is both loving and merciful, but he is also righteous and holy so he must destroy all who do not accept Him. but she is talking about a greek noun. aion. it aparantly got confused when translating the bible? can anyone shed any light on that?
Jul 31
10:57 AM
Nathaniel X,
Please allow me to contribute. You said God is love and forgiveness and you don't see Him able to punish someone everlasting. But you forget that HE is holy and righteous. In His presence there is no sin, and therefore no sinful creature. He would cancel Himself, so to say, if He would step over His own rules. Since we clarified this, let's move on with the Eternity of Hell.
The teaching that there is an eternal hell in which hordes of mankind will suffer eternal punishment can be a difficult doctrine to accept. We hear so much about God's infinite love and how He desires that all men be saved (1 Tim. 2:4). However, those who develop their theologies based upon the "gentle" side of God do so with an incomplete picture. Not only is God loving (1 John 4:8-10), gracious (Exo. 33:19; 1 Pet. 2:3), and merciful (Exodus 34:6; Psalm 67:1; James 5:11), but He is also holy (Isaiah 6:3; Rev. 4:8), just ( Neh. 9:32-33; 2 Thess. 1:6), and hates sin (Psalm 5:5-6; Hab. 1:13). God punishes the sinner (Jer. 50:31; Ez. 44:12; Matt. 25:46; 2 Thess. 1:9; 2 Pet. 2:9; Heb. 10:29).
The word Hell is mentioned in the NT 12 or 13 times (depends on the translation), 11 (12)times by Jesus Himself. Not in any of the circumstances does it say it is temporary. On the contrary:
* "And these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power," (2 Thess. 1:9).
* "Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire" (Jude 7).
* These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever," (Jude12-13).
Some believe that the fires of hell are symbolic and/or temporal. But the following verses show that they are not.
Matt. 3:12 says, "And His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." (See also Luke 3:17.)
Mark 9:43 says, "And if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire." The word "unquenchable" is "asbestos" in the Greek. According to the enhanced Strong's lexicon, it means "unquenchable, the eternal hell fire to punish the damned."
Please check this also.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2186
There is no greater love than this than he who lays down his life for his friends. Now are you willing to lay down your life for your friends?
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12:44 PM
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