Note the claim.
The guy said I believe God CAN'T destroy Satan.
There is a difference between CAN'T and WON'T.
For some reason, God wants to keep him around to torment him, and unrepentant mankind.
This is CLEAR from Revelation.
And, my point is that angelic beings are spirit, and spirit doesn't produce ashes. Spirit is not material.
But, I seem unable to penetrate his reasoning process. Somehow he thinks spirit is combustible, like matter. How can I reason with someone like him?
By the way, the SDAs confuse the types with the reality. Physical destruction by fire is only a type of the spiritual ruin that the lost will suffer.
They suffer ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, according to Jesus. It is likened to Sodom and Gomorrah, and the fiery destruction they suffered. But those are only weak TYPES, and not the reality.
In Revelation 21-22, which is about the New Heaven and the New Earth, we see them OUTSIDE THE CITY. They still exist, but they are OUTSIDE THE CITY. This denies the SDA claim that they won't exist anymore, because they are OUTSIDE THE CITY. They are not allowed to participate in God's new world.
The SDA cannot reconcile his annihilationist position. The mistake they are making is to take the TYPES of the OT, including Sodom and Gomorrah, and to claim they are the reality. Physical destruction is only a TYPE of the punishment of the wicked, which is eternal conscious torment.
By the way, I used to be an annihilationist, so I know where this guy is coming from. Cultists like the SDAs think that they have "the Truth" and no one else does. Ask them about this phrase if you don't believe me. Ask them if they call their understanding of the Bible "the Truth", and you will find out that this is what they call it.
In the cult I came from, it was common to talk about how glad you were that God showed you "the Truth"....and you were not talking about Christianity in general, you were talking about the kooky teachings of the Church, which you associated with the true faith. Christianity and the kooky teachings were exactly the same thing in your mind.
The guy said I believe God CAN'T destroy Satan.
There is a difference between CAN'T and WON'T.
For some reason, God wants to keep him around to torment him, and unrepentant mankind.
This is CLEAR from Revelation.
And, my point is that angelic beings are spirit, and spirit doesn't produce ashes. Spirit is not material.
But, I seem unable to penetrate his reasoning process. Somehow he thinks spirit is combustible, like matter. How can I reason with someone like him?
By the way, the SDAs confuse the types with the reality. Physical destruction by fire is only a type of the spiritual ruin that the lost will suffer.
They suffer ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, according to Jesus. It is likened to Sodom and Gomorrah, and the fiery destruction they suffered. But those are only weak TYPES, and not the reality.
In Revelation 21-22, which is about the New Heaven and the New Earth, we see them OUTSIDE THE CITY. They still exist, but they are OUTSIDE THE CITY. This denies the SDA claim that they won't exist anymore, because they are OUTSIDE THE CITY. They are not allowed to participate in God's new world.
The SDA cannot reconcile his annihilationist position. The mistake they are making is to take the TYPES of the OT, including Sodom and Gomorrah, and to claim they are the reality. Physical destruction is only a TYPE of the punishment of the wicked, which is eternal conscious torment.
By the way, I used to be an annihilationist, so I know where this guy is coming from. Cultists like the SDAs think that they have "the Truth" and no one else does. Ask them about this phrase if you don't believe me. Ask them if they call their understanding of the Bible "the Truth", and you will find out that this is what they call it.
In the cult I came from, it was common to talk about how glad you were that God showed you "the Truth"....and you were not talking about Christianity in general, you were talking about the kooky teachings of the Church, which you associated with the true faith. Christianity and the kooky teachings were exactly the same thing in your mind.
IASIAH 47:14 Behold they shall be as stubble the fire shall burn them; They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: There shall not be a coal to warm at nor fire to set before it.
MALACHI 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up is caves of the stall. 3. And ye shall trade down the wicked; for they shall be Ashes under the souls of your feet and the day that I shall do this, sayeth the Lord of hosts.
GOD bless as HE see fit