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Originally Posted by Barb
Precisely...what sane individual would choose hellfire over eternity in glory?!
Yet, man makes this choice every day when they willingly and willfully sin.
If we didn't have a choice in the matter, it wouldn't make sense...we would be nothing more than puppets, living any way we desired because it didn't matter...we'd make it in anyway.
Well, listen to the Word...
"Depart from me, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matt. 25:41).
"For the wages of sin is death" ( Rom. 6:23).
"This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" ( Rev. 20:14, 15).
This is from Truth Shall Triumph...
"Hell was never prepared for man. God made it for the devil and his followers. God has done everything He can to stop man from going to this dreadful place. The cross of Calvary is a roadblock, stopping man from his slide down into a lost eternity. Christ died to stop men and women from going there. If man wilfully chooses to be a follower of satan, he definitely will be with satan throughout eternity." |
What is assumed is that these scriptures indicate a final condition of the sinner. Though God does punish and hold man accountable for his choices, these verses in no way prove a finally state of the sinner. "Everlasting" in
Matthew 25.41 is translated in Young's Transliteration as "age-enduring" meaning an indefinite period of time. Which would be better understood as "fire that is unquenched until it accomplishes its purpose of purging the sinner.
2 Cor. 5:19 and Col.1:20: Let's us know that Jesus dealt with the wages of sin:
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
KJV
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
KJV
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