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Originally Posted by TulsaDavid
My lands, if you have to ask, not realizing the rich man in hell was NOT a parable, not knowing that we will be as the angels, not knowing that the torment of those in the lake of fire is unceasing from the eons of eons, then we may not have much ground for discussion. I assume you realize these things. I also assume you realize that the definition of death of a soul is not nothingness, but eternal separation from life, as defined by scripture as eternal salvation. The lake of fire IS the second death. They inhabitants will be quite cognizant and in unceasing torture.
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Don't you see how this impugns God's righteousness?
You have God, who is love, mercilessly, endlessly, intentionally, beyond all bounds and limitations of control, causing unceasing torture for eternity.
Even a lifetime of heinous sin only merits an equal judgment or verdict rendered against it. The punishment fits the crime. That is clear all throughout the Bible. Not all crimes or sins were of a capital offense nature. Jesus remarked about those ignorant of God's will who will receive less of a whipping than the ones who were cognizant of God's will.
And yet, in the resurrection of the unjust, God loses His mind and decides He is going to make sinners suffer for as long as He exists? Think about that for a moment.
For the rest of God's existence, the sinners will be in constant, unending, equal to God's own eternity, torment.
You have God never relenting of His wrath or vengeance, for as long as He lives. Destroying sinners who have been judged and found wanting isn't enough. He also has to make them pay with interest, a debt they could never pay for in the first place (Jesus paid it all???) for the rest of His existence, just to prove a point.