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You literally just said “eternal hell does not exist”
How is fire and punishment everlasting without hell everlasting? You do realize the term hell is referencing the place where fire and punishment is held? Separated from Moses’s bosom?
Everlasting is to the end of time. Eternity is beyond time.
Yes hell = sheol in the original translation. Equivalent of our modern day shale, or a layer of the earth. Like you said, the place where fire (lava core of earth) and punishment (life without God) exist. But remember they exist until the end of time, not beyond time. Meaning that as long as there are people the punishment and fire will exist, not that a person will endure the punishment and fire forever.
You’re confused, everlasting means forever. Eternity just means no beginning as well. Everlasting has no end, it is ever lasting.
Yes, eternal is beyond time. The word “ever” is a measurement of time, so everlasting is to the end of time.
See the trend?
Do you know what perish means? Or what death is?
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Pay attention to the last sentence and how it is an explicit contrasting comparison. Those who are not righteous have everlasting punishment. The righteous have eternal life.
Point me to a single clarifying verse that says that hell is "punishment until death" and that the torture will pass at any point in time once those who have experienced death, die another time and perish for good.
No such verse exists. Where is the verse talking about death after death? Hell is explicitly spoken of as if it has no end. There is absolutely no indication to think otherwise. It says the exact opposite of hell, that it is a fire that does not burn up, that the people experience a thirst that is never quenched. We are repeatedly told in MANY ways that IT DOES NOT END.
ITS EVERLASTING. Not fulfilled until the end, it has no end. You're injecting things that don't make any sense.
Jesus' words in Mark 9:47-48: "And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ "
Jesus in Matthew 13:40-43: "Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear."
How can people be "weeping and wailing" in a "fiery furnace" where the fire is never quenched if they cease to exist?
Revelation 14:11: "And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
The Bible says that at the end of the age (end of time) there will be people burning forever (thus smoking forever) with no rest from their torment thus they are consciously experiencing this.