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Old 09-16-2005, 02:52 AM
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Default Re: The Anguish of Semi Believers.

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And at the end of this age:

Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Not eternal. First death. Second death. Our merciful God has no interest in punishing you for eternity. And, a just God also must insist that you not spend eternity with Him if you reject Him for the 20-30-40-60-90 years He gives you breath to breathe.

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But by your quotation from Revelation, hell and those in it, are cast into the lake of fire, and no further provision is made for them. So how does this make it not eternal? And it is only your view of what constitutes the actions of a just God that you are stating here, not what they necessarily are. In fact God's justice is more likely to punish eternally, while His mercy is not. And if what you believe is not that God merely anihilates from existence those sent to hell rather than punishing them eternally, but that they are rehabilitated in hell and thus ALL are eventually saved, then you have no true basis in scripture for that view. You then have merely made an idol of your own understanding.
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