Quote:
Originally Posted by TulsaDavid
There will never be a "know nothing" in the lake of fire. That is so contradictory to the principle of judgment and punishment, to conjure that it will be imperceptible to those being punished. "An abhorrence to the living righteous"??? Their tears will be wiped away. Where are you getting these ideas, guys? Come on.
|
The punishment is everlasting destruction. Nothing can be destroyed eternally as an on-going activity. Once something is destroyed, it's destroyed. You can't make something drenched in water any wetter than it already is. Same with destroyed. Once something is destroyed, it's destroyed.
Finally, the corpses of the unrighteous dead being an abhorrence has nothing to do with tears being wiped away. The tears of
Revelation 21:4 are in regards to tears of sorrow and loss which occurred in this life.
But in the resurrection, the righteous will, as much as God does, without the carnality of our emotions clouding our judgment, despise the unrighteous who warred against our God and hated His Christ, and we will abhor them, not bawl tears of sorrow for them.
Or if not, then
Isaiah 66:24 as it relates to
Mark 9:43-48 and is fulfilled in
Revelation 21:8 is a false prophecy.