Quote:The Christian Scriptures, however, make clear that death (eternal destruction) is the consequence of sin, although there are some passages which have been traditionally (and wrongly) interpreted as implying eternal conscious torment.I believe those who "misinterpret" hell has really good reasons..
Daniel 12:2 Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake – some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence. 3 But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever
Matthew 25:46 And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
Matthew 13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom
everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Quote:Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Gandalf The Gray.
