RE: What the bible says Hell is like
January 24, 2016 at 3:31 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 3:57 am by snowtracks.)
(January 4, 2016 at 2:47 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: Nobody, not even the most evil of all persons ever to walk this earth deserves the punishment of the "eternal" horror beyond imagination which has been called Hell,The Biblical doctrine of Hell is a paradox which is an apparent contradiction but upon further examination is resolvable. The issue here is God’s goodness and humans exercising their God given free-will to chose and once having chosen could be eternally ‘tormented’ for making a particular choice. Some points: 1) Lake-of-Fire and Hell synonyms describe a location; the word ‘fire’ in reference is non-consuming. 2) The word ‘torment’ describes a condition that is self-imposed (God will never violate His nature; His nature is incapable of ‘torment’) --- yes, there are things God can’t do.
The Bible makes it clear that the new creation & hell exist beyond, not within the dimensions of the universe, Both places will survive God’s ‘rolling up’ this universe; as one rolls up a scroll, and causing it to disappear in a fiery heat before replacing with the ‘New Creation’ (new to us), consisting of something completely new as to dimensions, physical & spiritual characteristics. God’s purpose in creating the universe includes fulfillment of His plan to conquer evil once and for all, always. God’s main purpose for creation is always linked to redemption.
The New Creation & the Lake-of-Fire are not the only created entities that will remain beyond this dramatic end. Every human who has ever lived & every angelic being also will survive (apparently one of the spiritual laws describing God’ reality is that every spirit creature once created exist unendingly. And no, the Neanderthals are not spirit beings … don’t get all goofy just because a hominid has bi-pedal locomotion.
The ‘torment’ results from a person determining from an absolutely, positively, pure 100% un-adultery freewill that they don’t want to be ’redeemed’ (again what is the main thing?, yes it’s redemption). God gives people what they chose, and make no mistake about it, they know exactly what they are choosing which is independence from God, but that also brings 'torment'. Once there, degrees of 'torment' are felt by the amount of restraint a person will have ... the more evil, they have exhibited on earth, the more restrain hell's inhabitants will have. Those there are still God's spiritual creatures and he protects those there from the most evil one's by restraining them the most. The evil one, the antichrist, and the false prophet won't be moving at all.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.