There's no contradiction. The punishment for unforgiven sin is death.And, yet friend you create a contradiction in Matthew 25:46
There's no contradiction. The punishment for unforgiven sin is death.And, yet friend you create a contradiction in Matthew 25:46
The lake of fire is Gods' presence to the unsaved on judgement day.Yes.
I was just wondering since we both believe about the same.
Because it would be written that the lake of fire is temporary.
Yes, the Soul is comprised of the Body and the Spirit. God is going to destroy the Body and the Soul, but the Spirit shall return to Him just as it was when it left Him, which means it don't LOOK like you, SMELL like you, SOUND like you, or has ANYTHING to do with you...it returns to Him just as it was when it went forth to enter your body and caused the Soul that is named John146 to begin to exist.
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Why do you accuse others of lying when they employ figurative language? Do you struggle with habitual lying? We already know you have a problem with keeping the truth of God's Word straight, seeing that you publicly claimed the wicked can partake of God's "agape" and yet have refused to publicly apologize for even merely suggesting something so asinine...Because you clearly just wrote that you believe what he said is not true.
You misused the phrase 'wax poetic' to try to sugar coat your false doctrines, but we can all see quite plainly that it is your belief Christ lying in Luke 16 and now Peter was lying in 1 Peter 3.
Why do you think God is lying?
You mean like your made up doctrine about the wicked partaking of "agape" in order to preserve that other made up doctrine OSAS, which Matthew 24:12-13 KJV destroys?Why do you make up things?
Nothing you wrote makes a bit of sense. The same Spirit of Jesus which preached to the Antediluvians through Noah is the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, is all that Peter is saying.you really, actually woke up this morning, thought you had understanding, and came here to announce to us all that "Jesus preached to the spirits in prison" is a euphemism for 'Jesus was annihilated' ???
i'm trying to understand what kind of mindset makes a thread claiming Jesus was lying, and now Peter was lying, and completely makes up things to accuse me when i confront you about it? and you think this is all a good idea and you are giving us valuable information with your crazy-talk?
Yes, in the sense of what is physically around you. But as I said before, dreaming is proof that our inward self still experiences awareness even when we sleep."Unconscious" refers to "unaware of what is happening to you and around you"
The rest of the Bible's usage of "soul" narrows the range of meaning for the way "nephesh" can legitimately be translated in Genesis 2:7. (read that again)"we" are the sum total of the union of the Body and the Breath of Life, which means that "we" are the "I", the "ego", the "self", the "whole being", the "living Soul".
Idioms appear in literal historical narratives all the time (Jhn 2:4, Act 7:51, Judg 11:40, Gen 27:8). The existence of figurative language doesn't make a passage parabolic. "Abraham's bosom" is one of many examples of figurative language in a literal scenario.You can't in one breath claim the passage is literal - then proceed to argue it's full of idioms
Circular reasoning. John saw disembodied saints in heaven, who had been martyred on the earth in Revelation ch 6 and ch 20.Disembodied, yes, which proves the Rich Man and Lazarus MUST BE a parable.
Authority comes from Scripture, not Tyndale. I have presented Scripture that communicates a simple and powerful syllogism.You've heard of Tyndale? Let's review his answer to Catholic Sir Thomas Moore
Yeah...spiritually imprisoned in Sheol.the Spirit of Jesus preached in referring to the Antediluvians who were "spiritually imprisoned" in the "prison house of sin"
“in which also He went and preached to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient...during the construction of the ark.” (1 Peter 3:19–20)He wasn't preaching to anyone anywhere
There's nothing symbolic about what I wrote.Funny how when a verse doesn’t fit your narrative you play the symbolism card. Btw, thanks for calling all of us fools.
Yes, the Soul is comprised of the Body and the Spirit. God is going to destroy the Body and the Soul, but the Spirit shall return to Him just as it was when it left Him, which means it don't LOOK like you, SMELL like you, SOUND like you, or has ANYTHING to do with you...it returns to Him just as it was when it went forth to enter your body and caused the Soul that is named John146 to begin to exist.No, I just showed you how you've been reading it wrong all these years. The Soul exists ONLY as a consequence of the union of the Body and the Breath of Life...SAYS IT RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU THAT THE SOUL ONLY BEGINS TO EXIST WHEN THESE TWO JOIN. Even a fool can see that once these to disjoin, the Soul cannot continue to exist.
You can't take the symbolism of the most symbolic book in the Bible and make it literal while ignoring the several verses which say the dead are in total silence. We call that "twisting Scripture". Would you like me to post all the texts that say the dead are in "silence" and "darkness" and are devoid of "emotion" and "knowlege" and "wisdom" and "device" and do "no work"? I got 'em for anyone who's willing to be an honest scholar.
[QUOTE' Isaiah 10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
Since people on both sides repented and have Jesus in their life, I do not think those of ether side are spiritually blind. Just following how they read the Bible.I assure you that anyone who has heard the truth that the wicked are not eternally tormented, but are annihilated, and refuses to accept the truth...it is they who are spiritually blind, usually because they have separated themselves from God through the indulgence of sin, and thus are left without Holy Spirit discernment.
Don't mean to denigrate or criticize either, friend. I pray you will come to believe God Who said, YE SHALL SURELY DIE" and not the Serpent who has convinced the entire Christian world that "YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE...Y0U'LL DIE ALRIGHT, BUT YOU'RE NOT REALLY GOING TO BE DEAD - YOU'LL STILL BE ALIVE IN JOY ABOVE OR IN TORMENT BELOW, BUT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SURELY DIE."
I always ask why Christians are so scared of spending the night in a cemetery. They all know them folk are dead...but not surely, right?
Humans are spirits, too, so by your logic there is nothing to burn. What is being burned exactly?
Also, let's try to stay as close to the text as possible. It says the smoke rises forever, but not that anyone is tormented forever. I think that isn't a mistake.
NoThe lake of fire is Gods' presence to the unsaved on judgement day.
I already put them in context. On one I can see how you understand it as agreeing with you. When googling them, a book kept coming up which I linked to. Even the one that appeared to agree with you taught that soul is immortal.You either don't understand what you're reading or refuse to accept what it says, or both. Irenaeus and the other early church fathers I quoted are well-known conditionalists (anhilationists). Please research them because this isn't debatable. All modern scholars of the early church fathers are aware of this. I'm afraid we can't continue this discussion if you won't engage the material honestly and scholarly.
No, that wasn't the opinion of Plato, that was Arnobius or Sicca in Against the Heathen refuting Plato. Thanks for the commentary, but these are the views within the early church of prominent figures who believed in conditional immortality due to the many scriptures that teach that.
Why do you accuse others of lying when they employ figurative language? Do you struggle with habitual lying? We already know you have a problem with keeping the truth of God's Word straight, seeing that you publicly claimed the wicked can partake of God's "agape" and yet have refused to publicly apologize for even merely suggesting something so asinine...
...will you now offer a public apology for any damage others may have incurred due to your false ideas? OSAS dies an excruciating death at the hands of Matthew 24:12-13 KJV and you know it, so repent now and avoid the rush at doomsday when it'll be too late.
I am interested I don't see how that text destroys OSAS. Personally, I would go to Hebrews 6:4-6.You mean like your made up doctrine about the wicked partaking of "agape" in order to preserve that other made up doctrine OSAS, which Matthew 24:12-13 KJV destroys?
It should be clear that the Bible teaches everlasting punishment in the form of being cast into everlasting fire where there will be an experience that is characterized by wailing and gnashing of teeth.
(Matthew 25:46; Matthew 25:41; Matthew 13:41-42, Matthew 13:49-50).