guibox said:
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For another I can believe that satan and his messengers are going to be in the Lake forever because that is specifically in the scriptures.
You try to put every wicked person in a 'but it wasn't my fault, I was deceived!' role, so therefore they aren't going to be tossed in the lake of fire with the Deceiver Then all the texts speaking of the wicked receiving the punishment of fire aren't really the wicked at all but 'Satan and his demons'.
I stared at the scriptures for decades to see past the abundant inconsistencies guibox. I know many have, yourself included as well. Your desired position is faced with multifold problems that I can only begin to describe in this format. You could actually write a very large book about the inconsistencies in Christian positions.
One of those glaring inconsistencies is in holding and counting sins against other people "because" it is a condition that you have as well. You cannot honestly judge to someone else's detriment for a condition that should rightfully apply to you as well. This unbalanced and unrighteous form of judgment is what led me to my search for legitimate scriptural alternatives.
If I cannot defend my position by encompassing the scriptures entire counsel and do so on an encompassing basis then I am forced to re-examine the validity of the positions held, rather than to just be locked into stubborness eh? I don't like being a hypocrite.
That is why there are so many fragmented groups. All of them can make an argument but who can really run the entire gauntlet of the texts? It's a difficult thing to say the least.
I do not rest easily in the camps of liars.
So texts like:
[quote:98059]And the sea gave up the dead which were in it...and they were judged every man according to their works..And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire - Revelation 20:13,15
If any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall dirink of the wine of the wrath of God...and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb - Revelation 14:10
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be at the end of this world....and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them which do iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth - Matthew 13:40,41
And if thy hand offend thee, cut if off. It is better for thee to enter into life maimed then having two hands to go into hell into the fire taht never shall be quenched - Mark 9:43
I guess all of these are merely talking about the demons and his angels, hmm?[/quote:98059]
Undoubtedly them, the devil and his messengers. The reason you don't see it that way is because you are not paying attention to what Jesus said and did. He talked to these things openly "in men." How could you have missed that one???
The burden really is on the proponents of people being tossed in to the Lake to actually
find a single named example in the Bible of anyone having such a fate as there should theoretically be millions of potential examples, or at least find one named example of a human being even threatened with such a fate, but alas for that position there is
not one single example of the fate or even the threat.
The devil and his messengers however have a ripe batch of scriptures that specifically and openly identify them as about to have this fate without any doubt whatsoever.
There is also the undeniable fact that these two positions are overlayed into the flesh of all mankind, save One, Jesus Christ.
Well, it must! It doesn't actually say, "And Bubba the rednecked farmhand was cast into the lake of fire" so it MUST just be Satan and his angels!
You and I have touched on another problem with your "desired" application. It makes God torturing and burning His Own children and offsprings alive in fire. So that is another weakness for your position.
Want more?
It also makes God The Father of those vile things that He is about to torture.
Want more?
Believe me, I have looked at this subject from every possible angle. When you finish with my initial barrages I save my best stuff for the harshest attacks. You get the disposable versions at the front lines.
Most cannot penetrate the simple observations. The people who are "equipped" to get past their own biases will improve their positions by the jousting factors.
Your views are based on wishful thinking and an active imagination rather than scriptural support.
Prove it. Just making the whine is pointless.
You also create two separate punishments for the wicked and the devil.
Not at all. The wicked are the devil and his messengers.
Fire coming down out of heaven to burn the wicked, Lake of Fire for the devil.
Why do you equate the Lake with fire coming down out of heaven?
Not that there isn't one iota of evidence to show that the same fires that destroy the wicked will purify the earth as a lake of fire where all is cast in.
I agree. These are two separate fires. There are many other types of fires as well. None of them have the same purposes just because they are "fires" of various sorts.
Even if you did believe in such nonsesen, either way they all get burned so I'm not sure what your point is.
I'm really not certain what you are getting at here guibox. You may have read in your imaginations into the position. It happens alot.
Apparently God is merciful enough to not send the wicked sinners into the lake of fire, but his mercy isn't big enough to allow the angel sinners any slack.
Ah, another Christian fairy tale. The devil and his messengers are not described anywhere as being ever holy and pure so the entire notion that the fallen angels were once Holy is a fairy tale. Jesus said the devil was a murderer from the beginning.
Good old, fair, merciful, loving God who plays favorites with His creation. :roll:
Well, He sure does with His Own kids. As to the anti-life entities that He created to destroy, No, He will not be merciful. They were never intended to have mercy or to obtain it.
They were made for our exercise in Love. Ecclesiastes 1:13 and Ecclesiastes 3:10
enjoy!
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