Who does religion care?

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@Void and skipper

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Bullshit Tack.

"And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the eternal fire," (Matt. 18:8)

"And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life" (Matt. 25:46)

"And these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power," (2 Thess. 1:9).

"Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire" (Jude 7).

These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever," (Jude12-13).

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Do you even read what you're quoting? I'll give you Matthew 25:46 is a little difficult to understand. It's very clearly contrasting the finality of destruction and the promise of ressurection. Whatever the punishment is is eternal but it doesn't specify WHAT that punishment is.But no where does it say what will happen during your punishment(in your quoted scriptures). Yes, your punishment is eternal/forever. When you sentence someone to the death penalty it is a permenant solution. When God sentences someone to go to Hell, where your destruction is clearly stated, and the punishment lasts forever you're confounding the how with the where.
Matthew 10:28

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"28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell."

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If you chery pick the ones that support your claim instead of looking at all of them I can see where you think you get tortured forever. I implore you to objectively reread your selections though because they're incomplete and you're assuming the outcome.

"cast into the eternal fire" - the fire is eternal
"penalty of eternal destruction" - having your soul destroyed is final not forever
"punishment of eternal fire" - the fire is eternal
"destroy both soul and body in hell" - in hell it's destroyed as in not forever (unless you mean nothingness forever, I just never fathomed how to have nothingness)
"black darkness has been reserved forever" - if that doesn't conjure up imagery of nothingness as opposed to lakes of fire I don't know how to help you.

I don't know how to restate on a simple and plain read you're being misguided. I don't fault you, lots of others are as well. This isn't apologetics 101 though this is english 101. I'll gladly discuss it further, but I don't know how can restate the points so that you'll take off your blinders. If I missing something please let me know.