...at least, according to the Bible:
Ecclesiastes 9:5. The dead can't feel pain if the dead are "aware of nothing." (This agrees with Psalms 146:3-4. And John 11:11-14. And Acts of the Apostles 7:60.) And now we read Romans 6:23...." The wages of sin is death", not torment.
Basically, death is nonexistence. Isn't that bad enough?
How awful, to accuse God of doing something so heinous, for eternity! We as a justice-loving society don't allow people to burn others, even a little. But God does it? Forever?!
It's amazing, how such a teaching got so popular, when the Bible says differently! It's almost as if someone who hates God, has been controlling what Christendom teaches about it!
Someone may ask, "Doesn't the Bible mention the 'Lake of Fire'?" Yes, but if you'll notice respecting it, Revelation 20:13-14 states "death is hurled into" it. Is death something that can be burned? No. But in the future, it will be gone forever, it will "be no more"! (Revelation 21:3-4) Forever! Never coming back!
So we can tell, in this instance by what it says here regarding death, fire has a symbolic meaning: complete and everlasting destruction, never coming back!
Ecclesiastes 9:5. The dead can't feel pain if the dead are "aware of nothing." (This agrees with Psalms 146:3-4. And John 11:11-14. And Acts of the Apostles 7:60.) And now we read Romans 6:23...." The wages of sin is death", not torment.
Basically, death is nonexistence. Isn't that bad enough?
How awful, to accuse God of doing something so heinous, for eternity! We as a justice-loving society don't allow people to burn others, even a little. But God does it? Forever?!
It's amazing, how such a teaching got so popular, when the Bible says differently! It's almost as if someone who hates God, has been controlling what Christendom teaches about it!
Someone may ask, "Doesn't the Bible mention the 'Lake of Fire'?" Yes, but if you'll notice respecting it, Revelation 20:13-14 states "death is hurled into" it. Is death something that can be burned? No. But in the future, it will be gone forever, it will "be no more"! (Revelation 21:3-4) Forever! Never coming back!
So we can tell, in this instance by what it says here regarding death, fire has a symbolic meaning: complete and everlasting destruction, never coming back!
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