Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2288. thanatos ►
Strong's Concordance
thanatos: death
Original Word: θάνατος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: thanatos
Phonetic Spelling: (than'-at-os)
Definition: death
Usage: death, physical or spiritual.
HELPS Word-studies
2288 thánatos (derived from 2348 /thnḗskō, "to die") – physical or spiritual death; (figuratively) separation from the life (salvation) of God forever by dying without first experiencing death to self to receive His gift of salvation.
Spiritually DEAD and Physically DEAD = DEAD DEAD
And not you should be afraid of those killing the body the however soul not being able to kill
you should fear however rather the {One} being able BOTH soul and body to destroy in hell
And now we are being told by the WISDOME OF MAN that just because He is able doesn't mean that He does?
Then WHAT is there TO FEAR if He never does????
That is how the wisdom of man makes void the words of God. They sound so wise in the ways of the world but they do NOT SPIRITUALLY DISCERN.
If the PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH and one is KILLED in the lake of fire, then PUNISHMENT has been carried out and it will have been carried out forever.
THAT explanation is no different than the ONE THEY KEEP INSISTING is TRUTH with a couple exceptions and one of those is THE OPPOSITE OF LIFE IS DEATH. DEATH IS NOT ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO REMAIN ALIVE AND FEELING THE PUNISHMENT FOR THE PUNISHMENT TO 1. HAVE TAKEN PLACE AND 2. THAT NEVER CHANGE.
The BIBLE DEFINITELY tell us over and over that the OPPOSITE OF LIFE IS DEATH, AND NOT ETERNAL TORMENT.
That is how the TWIST is performed ON what is written . Doesn't matter that the opposite of life is death. It is just ignored like it isn't written and then WE are made to feel like WE are lacking in understanding.
TO GIVE ETERNAL LIFE to those who were not saved FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE TO TORTURE is twisted.
AND WHO is being tortured? Those who didn't believe. Those who didn't come to faith. HOW DIFFERENT are we? Just because WE HAVE BEEN DRAWN to God and they haven't they are tormented, forever? Seriously??? And these are to be judging the angels? SCARY, very SCARY.
Do those, WHO NEVER ASKED TO BE CREATED, who love the ways of this world more than God, DESERVING OF ETERNAL TORMENT? BECAUSE THIS IS THE REAL QUESTION. WHY,
Isn't dying GOOD ENOUGH? How is CEASING to exist NOT ENOUGH PUNISHMENT FOR SOME? What would an evil person want? Them to be tortured forever?
Where is COMPASSION AND MERCY to be found in the Saint? HOW ANYONE WHO HAS LOVE within them see that as BEING JUST and right and HOLY?
There is NOTHING anyone can say that will ever make me believe it.
DEATH is A GOOD enough punishment for me. Knowing these evil souls will never be raised up again SEEMS LIKE HEAVEN TO ME.
HOW MUCH DIFFERENT ARE WE?
Psalm 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Psalm 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
Psalm 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalm 78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Psalm 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
Psalm 78:21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
Psalm 78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Psalm 78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
Psalm 78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Psalm 78:25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
But if you happen to be one who chose the ways of the world then ITS ETERNAL TORMENT FOR YOU????????? I am not GOD but even I know GOD DOESN'T SEE THAT AS RIGHT AND JUST.
Psalm 78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
Psalm 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Psalm 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psalm 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Psalm 78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
Psalm 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Psalm 78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
BUT if someone choses the ways of the world over HIS WAS then it's eternal torment??????? Again, I am not God but THAT IS NOT JUST AND IS NOT RIGHT and there is nothing a man will ever say that will make it so. I know the thought of God.
Psalm 78:39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
AND THEY ARE ALL GOING TO BE FINE AND LIVE ETERNALLY IN HEAVEN BECAUSE OF THE PROMISES MADE TO THEIR FATHERS BUT THOSE WHO WEREN'T BORN INTO THIS FAMILY
They are going to be PUNISHED FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER BECAUSE SOMEHOW OUR GOD WHO IS FULL OF COMPASSION AND MERCY AND REPENTS OF EVIL WHICH HE THINKS TO DO
WANTS THEM TO BE TORTURED FOREVER AND EVER for not CHOOSING HIM????????? No way.
How easily evil does betray itself.
They are just flesh and like the wind BUT THEY NEED THE PUNISHMENT that never end, NEVER a hope or chance of mercy. Never for it to ever stop. They must live on and on and on so that they wil know forever and ever how totally stupid they were.
I don't know WHOS' GOD THAT IS A DESCRIPTION OF BUT THAT ISN'T A DESCRIPTION OF MY GOD. MY GOD IS HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS AND JUST, and I know my GOD would never do that even to those who HATE HIM because HE IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT.
So for all those who need eternal torture for those who aren't ALL THAT DIFFERENT than we are GOOD LUCK COME JUDGEMENT DAY BECAUSE THE JUDGMENT THAT YOU THINK IS JUST AND RIGHT AND HOLY IS THE JUDGMENT IN WHICH YOU WILL BE JUDGED.
Psalm 86:15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Psalm 86:16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Psalm 86:17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
Psalm 88:5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalm 89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
Psalm 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalm 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
NOT ETERNAL LIFE IN TORMENT, WHAT EVER THE DEGREE