Thou shalt have no other gods before me
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Lake of fire?
Hell is separation from God. We usually visualize Hell as a lake of fire because eternally burning in fire is one of the most painful things we can imagine. It is not close to the true pain of separation from God and thus all that is good, but we cannot really fathom that.
True, but my statement holds. The Bible describes it like that because that's the best way for God to translate the concept of what happens into very limited human language.
Well said. Our concept of Hell as a "lake of fire" comes from what is probably the best way to describe the anguish of eternal separation from God to 1st century people. Just like you couldn't explain quantum physics to people 2000 years ago (or many people even today), there had to be an effective metaphor, even though it's limited to the concept of one's corporeal self. Coming into the presense of God and being judged eternally after one leaves their physical body is probably more anguish than we who live in this plane of existence can comprehend, so the idea of physical pain was given to get the point across.
I think this is a really well-expressed explanation of the fact. I wish more people understood this point.
Anyway, on that note, regarding the pain of hell:
The physical universe is a reflection of, and modelled on, the spiritual universe.
Here in earth, our physical selves (aka our bodies) require warmth, light, air + nutrition, food, water. Our bodies bring these together to burn the fuel, generate energy that allows us to act, to simply exist (keep our bodies running) and even multiply.
This reflects the design of the human spirit: to grow and be healthy, our spirit selves (aka our minds & hearts) require God's grace, God's truth, God's love + spiritual nutrition and healthy relationships.
The spiritual energy generated by the actions we live and perform with our own volition and effort are in essence, our spirit's source of nutrition. Don't act, become spiritually malnourished.
But there is a two-edged sword in this principle. Bad actions generate a sort of spiritual toxin, the wages of sin. Satanic spirits gravitate and resonate with those toxins. Conversely, good actions generate a spiritual energy that our spirits need to grow and develop, mature.
The purpose of our earthly life is to grow our spirit, our hearts, our minds, so that they are fully mature and capable of fully giving and receiving God's love as expressed by God and by ourselves and others. In this sense, love is like air, the oxygen of the spirit world.
Sin limits our God-given ability to grow our hearts and minds. Those that live evil lives develop, not naturally but in a twisted, distorted way, due to the spiritual toxins within their spirits. This is the origin of demonic spirits.
In spirit world, those that do not develop their God-given heart cannot breath love. Love is painful to them, so being in God's presence is incredibly painful to them. For those that Do develop their hearts, and have grown the capacity to breathe (in and out) love, the spiritual regions inhabited by those that survive on toxins is incredibly difficult. Like being submerged under water or in a vacuum, where no love is present.
The air of the spirit world is love. God's love is the source of all other loves - parental love, children's love, sibling love and conjugal love.
Heaven is where those who can freely give and receive God's love dwell in the spirit. Hell is the place where those who cannot receive or give God's love exist in the spirit.
In my view, however, the "eternal" question is one of perception. In the spirit, there is no past, no future, there is only the eternal "now". This is why there is "eternal life" - the state of being in the full presence of God, being able to function properly in the spiritual sense, and truly love. "Eternal death" is the state of being separated from God, unable to function normally and having to survive or exist in an atmosphere of poisonous spiritual toxin every moment.
However, in God's grace, at some point, all those originally from God must return to God. Those who have been destroyed and distorted by sin will need to be restored back to God at some point. In this sense, eternal does not mean "for ever". It means, in that state of being transcendent of time and space. In my view.
I completely agree. Our view of the universe is limited to our linear, temporal existence. This is what is ridiculous about staunch atheists who are convinced there is no God, stating stuff about scienctifc evidence, etc. Science is the observation of time, space, and matter. The very first sentence of Genesis assures us that God's existence is something we cannot fathom. "In the beginning (time), God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter.) God is therefore not bound to these three factors we draw from to understand our universe. God apparently existed before these factors, so God's existence is completely unfathomable to our primitive minds. Even in Ecclesiastes it's said that no human could even assume to grasp God's true nature, or everything "under the sun." Science cannot explain how our ancestors echo through us somehow. DNA cannot explain how my daughter could make a funny face that I hadn't seen my wife make since well before she was ever born and hasn't made since. And there is something profound in how these sick elites gain power from negative energy, with their fearporn media and human suffering, why they have even gone so far as to forbid singing in churches because somehow viruses transmit more from singing (whatever...). They want to squash the powerful, positive energy of love that comes from the united focus of worship. It's probably also why they spend so much energy to try to discourage us "Qtards" from having hope. Every video by X22 I see on Bitchute is littered with trolls who have nothing better to do than to park their ass on each of his videos and spam their crap constantly. I'm kind of reminded of the "mood slime" from Ghostbusters 2.
Is for correction unto repentance, not torture without recourse.
I guess Jesus' sacrifice means nothing then. The saints are made clean by His blood, Hell is reserved for those sinners who do not repent. These are facts.
Something to ponder, fren:
https://www.thepathoftruth.com/teachings/restitution/mostfoolishquestion.htm
Why do you think Christ died on the cross? Do you think it was only for those who would believe on earth?
"For God so loved the world..."
The fact that He died so that all men would be saved is somehow lost on you people. It comes from a fundamental misunderstanding as to what hell really means and what it is.