www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/annihilation-or-eternal-punishment/ X-Files has NO RIGHT to rewrite / rephrase gods words in the bible
Ditto my previous remark to you:
Now you are just making stuff up out of your own imagination with no evidence, no quotes of anything i've said to back up your words, and no reasoning or logic to support your claims. You actually speak as if you know me, but it's obvious you don't (after all, how could you) & i know for a fact you are wrong. Which destroys your credibility here.
Get to know God, Love Omnipotent, and you won't be "terrified" any more.
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."
(1 John 4:18)
Yes, but "hell" is not a place where anyone is tortured by God for endless eons or eternity.
Love Omnipotent is not some sicko sadistic monster.
No, it's the idea that God will cast anyone off forever that the inspired Scriptures, in their original languages (not English), correctly translated & interpreted, do not teach.
Lamentations 3:22 and 3:31-33, The steadfast love of the Lord NEVER ceases, his mercies NEVER come to an end. . . .
Lam.3:31 For the Lord will NOT cast off FOR EVER:
32 For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness. 33 For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the SONS OF MEN.…
Evidence of universal salvation in the Bible:
https://www.tentmaker.org/articles/universalism-is-not-in-the-bible.htm
The problem is you don't know my "way of thinking" and your posts - including this one - have repeatedly demonstrated that you don't & are wrong in what you have - erroneously - thought was my "way of thinking". Because i don't think what you think i think. Like i said:
Now you are just making stuff up out of your own imagination with no evidence, no quotes of anything i've said to back up your words, and no reasoning or logic to support your claims. You actually speak as if you know me, but it's obvious you don't (after all, how could you) & i know for a fact you are wrong. Which destroys your credibility here.
If you want to know what a stranger thinks, you should ask him questions, instead of making false lying claims.
As for experience in a "way of thinking", i once believed in an eternal hell. That was 4 decades ago. Since then i have believed in universal salvation. And have read many books on the subject, both for and against it. And studied it in great detail, as well as having had many online debates with anti-universalist annihilationists & infernalists. So, believe me, i know what i am talking about on this subject. I know it extremely well. You, OTOH, nah.
Easy way? What's easy? There's only ever been only one Way & that's Jesus Christ (John 14:6; 1 Tim.2:4-6).
The hard way would be rejecting Him in this life & going to "hell" postmortem.
Like i said i've studied the topic quite thoroughly. Perhaps more than anyone ever has. And my posts here are evidence in support of that. So your remarks here are quite "out to lunch".
1) Obviously because "hell" is not a pleasant place & anyone going there will regret it & the decisions that led to them being sent there. Duh.
2) Being in hell is not being saved.
3) For the same reason you wouldn't want your child to - suffer - by burning to death in a fire, even though you know the child would be brought back to life (on his day of resurrection)!
4) You can warn someone about the potential consequences (e.g. death) of playing with matches, or the consequences (e.g. capital punishment) of criminal behaviours. Why warn them if they are going to be resurrected anyway? Well, duh.
You really need to actually OPEN up your bible & read it x ....your promoting universalism which teaches that God will save everybody & your purposely or ignorantly leading others astray . if God is going to save anyone anyway there would be no point in him talking about / warning others about hell would there ?
1) Wrong. See my post #30 that shows why you were wrong there & why you are wrong again here.
2) Obviously there is a "point" to warning about "hell", because obviously it's better to avoid "hell" and go straight to heaven than suffer in "hell" for X number of years/decades/centuries/millenniums first before getting to heaven. Duh. Get it now.
If you can't understand simple things like this, how are you ever going to understand & interpret the Scriptures correctly? You won't be able to. It'll be beyond you.
I don't. And neither do you. The issue is, what does it actually say:
"Contrary to what many would suppose, universalism... receives strong scriptural support in the New Testament. Indeed, I judge the support strong enough that if I had to choose between universalism and anti-universalism as the “position of Scripture,” I’d pick universalism as the fairly clear winner."
https://campuspress.yale.edu/keithderose/1129-2/
