(August 20, 2010 at 3:33 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote:(August 20, 2010 at 2:52 pm)tackattack Wrote: Actually Evf the Bible teaches there is a place in heaven for unbelievers. And the Bible clearly states your soul will be destroyed in hell.. so while hell itself is everlasting.. the suffering of a soul in it would still be finite due to it's destruction. Think of tossing a voodoo doll into a bonfire that lasts forever.
For this to get off the starting blocks you would have to:
- prove a soul.
- then reconcile how you can have a finite, infinte soul
In your analogy a voodoo doll would at some point be destroyed in the bonfire as the former is finite and the latter eternal. This would mean we escape eternal punishment, is that what you intended to assert?
Well this thread is bound to get derailed so I'm not going to even bother with proving a soul, here at this point, if I haven't tried already in some other thread.
Yes though, I do lean more towards annihilationism and assert that (assuming an eternal soul exists)when something says that it is destroyed it ceases to be (whether in a lake of fire or some other method), including a soul.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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