Fnord wrote:
Bezeone wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Ahh ... youthful idealism ... too often trampled by the realities of life ... The Bible is a collection of largely apocryphal stories that were embellished upon for decades (or even centuries) before they were ever put into writing. But if believing in a just and loving God (who would send non-believers to a place of eternal torment that is filled with darkness, fire, brimstone and the wailing of the damned) gives you comfort, then more power to you.
I don't believe in such a God. I do believe in a just and loving God who said he will have to be payed
the wages of sin by those who rejected him. (Those who never had the chance won't really suffer.)
They're the same thing, according to the Bible.
"Death" being just another colorful metaphor for "Hell".
Ezekiel 28:17-18, "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee."
Here, God is saying he will burn Satan to ashes...
Revelation 20:10, ''And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.''
Odd..
Oh yeah,what other Bible quote used forever?
Jonah 2:6
''I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.''
He was in the whale for three days!