Having an amicable (not) discussion with someone who believes in Hell. This is what he says, what do you say? *** Anyway... You would be correct to say that destroy implies destruction, but incorrect to say that it implies an end to that destruction, read 2 Thessalonians 1:9, which says, Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Thats everlasting destruction, everlasting means without end, it means eternally... In this sense, although there will be eternal pain and torment in hell, destruction and to be destroyed means to be eternally separated from God.. Destroy means to be lost or to perish.. Notice, Peter said, Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:(2 Peter 3:3-6)... Keyword perished, we know that God destroyed with the flood the world and all life except what was saved on the ark, but did the world cease to exist? No! The word destroy in Matthew 10:28 does not imply an end to the destruction of the spirit, spiritual death is eternal, continuous death..
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:52:48 +0000
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