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Like I said IF YOU CAN SEE IT.
Hell ... I've always struggled with this concept.
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I will give you 2 clues. Who is God talking to/about in vs 20 and who is the SEED of that person he is talking about in 21?
-- we Are to look to Jesus Christ for our example of Godly living. Not other people. We all probably know of people who don't live a very Godly life -- but we are Not to use those people as our own excuse.
We will All be answering to God for our words / actions.
We will All be answering to God for our words / actions.
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Always Remember “Hell” is not the “Lake of Fire”!
Happiness in the Twilight Zone
Rocky Valentine epitomizes our problem. Rocky stars in an episode of Twilight Zone(airing in the 60s) and is an unlucky, small-time thief who dies early in the episode. In the afterlife, Rocky wakes up next to a man named Pip, who he believes to be his guardian angel. Pip promises to give him whatever he desires. Rocky asks for the best the world has to offer: unlimited luck at the casino, to be desired by beautiful women, for universal acclaim, and more.
At first, the land where Rocky’s dreams come true seems like paradise, but as months go by, the life that Rocky thought he’d always wanted has lost its magic. In fact, it has grown positively distasteful to him. In a moment of rage, Rocky grabs Pip, his “guardian angel,” and says, “If I gotta stay here another day, I’m gonna go nuts! I don’t belong in heaven, see? I want to go to the other place.”
“Heaven?” his guardian angel replies, “Whatever gave you the idea that you were in heaven. This is the other place!”
Then the haunting voice of the narrator comes in, and says, “A scared, angry little man who never got a break. Now he has everything he’s ever wanted — and he’s going to have to live with it for eternity — in the Twilight Zone.”
Happiness in the Twilight Zone
Rocky Valentine epitomizes our problem. Rocky stars in an episode of Twilight Zone(airing in the 60s) and is an unlucky, small-time thief who dies early in the episode. In the afterlife, Rocky wakes up next to a man named Pip, who he believes to be his guardian angel. Pip promises to give him whatever he desires. Rocky asks for the best the world has to offer: unlimited luck at the casino, to be desired by beautiful women, for universal acclaim, and more.
At first, the land where Rocky’s dreams come true seems like paradise, but as months go by, the life that Rocky thought he’d always wanted has lost its magic. In fact, it has grown positively distasteful to him. In a moment of rage, Rocky grabs Pip, his “guardian angel,” and says, “If I gotta stay here another day, I’m gonna go nuts! I don’t belong in heaven, see? I want to go to the other place.”
“Heaven?” his guardian angel replies, “Whatever gave you the idea that you were in heaven. This is the other place!”
Then the haunting voice of the narrator comes in, and says, “A scared, angry little man who never got a break. Now he has everything he’s ever wanted — and he’s going to have to live with it for eternity — in the Twilight Zone.”
That's right -- hell / gehenna whatever a person wants to call it -- is only the holding place for people who die without Christ until the very end comes and Death, Hades, Hell -- are thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone. And, yes, People are there.
It's not what I'd call the Twilight Zone. I used to watch that program. It could be very haunting.
But lake of fire and brimstone is Not having too much of a good thing and getting tired of it and going crazy.
It sounds like you, too, might be downplaying the horribleness of a future in hell / lake of fire and brimstone The total Absense of God and the continual presents of evil.
It's not what I'd call the Twilight Zone. I used to watch that program. It could be very haunting.
But lake of fire and brimstone is Not having too much of a good thing and getting tired of it and going crazy.
It sounds like you, too, might be downplaying the horribleness of a future in hell / lake of fire and brimstone The total Absense of God and the continual presents of evil.
