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Originally Posted by TGBTG
What is the significance of this teaching?
In other words, if a person believes asserts unbelievers will be in the lake of fire for eternity as opposed to being there for "a certain amount of time", what difference does it make?
In both instances, the unbeliever is separated from God's presence for all eternity. I'm struggling to see the significance of this teaching...
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The significance is that it is the truth. What is significance of insisting water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ is part of the new birth, that it the meaning of "born of water"? After all, many oneness pentecostals believe one is born again at repentance, and reject the idea that baptism is "born of water", yet they baptise converts in the same name we do, so in both cases people get baptised in the saving name. So what is the significance? That it is the truth, that is the significance.
Moreover, conditional immortality (only the saved will live forever, not the wicked and unbelievers) stands opposed to the doctrine of the serpent, that "You shall not surely die." To believe all humans are naturally already immortal is pure pagan religion, straight from the serpent's mouth in the Garden.
This truth affirms the glory of God, that God alone has immortality, and that He gives Eternal Life to all in Christ - and ONLY to them, for he that does not believe shall not see Life.
It also assures the believer that sin, evil, and enmity against God will be purged from His Creation eventually.
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