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December 10, 2019

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Johan J Tredoux

Could one tackle this question by doing a comprehensive study of the role of fire in the Bible? Is its use restorative or retributive? I'm not sure who asked the question, but it has been asked: "If God asks us to love our enemies and he doesn't have to in the end, does it nullify the biblical claim that his love is everlasting?"
We've all heard the familiar phrase: "God is in control." However, if his love is un-controlling (Oord), non-coercive, requiring a response from us to have a loving outcome, does hell fit in this scenario?
For love to continue in the afterlife, we have to continue to be able to say no to God, otherwise, we are glorified robots. Does hell, as punishment for saying no, nullify the ability to say no and thereby nullify the potential for love in the afterlife?

Jeff


Ect or accretions to Hell, Like Dbh overdoes, and characterized in his book overlooks a simple fact that the 543 Anti -Origenist Council ONLY says on point 9 : . If anyone says or holds that the punishment of demons and impious human beings is temporary and that it will have an end at some time, and that there will be a restoration of demons and impious human beings, let him be anathema..
All parroting of modern accretions of Hell is good rhetoric , but a waste of words

Steev Rush Garrett

I Find the conversation helpful, altho' am not sold on the idea(s) being explored. I also find some issues resolve themselves upon cogitating on God's final mercy - the wiping away of every tear in the next life. Ie, we will have no memory of the temporal peeps we are today connected with; but does this also resolve, in our limited understanding to yet one more monster-like cruelty? That's not my Lord!

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