So as any true person who studies scripture and desires to know and the learn the truth from God you have to be open minded and be a teachable child and have to be willing to not just throw down what you thought you knew but be willing to accept what you don't want to believe.
The debate on eternal damnation has popped up here and there lately, many say that a loving father such as God would never make someone suffer for eternity. I myself did not want to believe this and I still don't, I do not wish that any person would have to endure the fires of all for all eternity but I also understand that just because I don't want to believe it just because it doesn't seem right or fair to me doesn't matter for out thoughts are not his thoughts and he is a righteous and fair God.
True enough he is a very loving father but he is not a tame God he does have a righteous anger and judgement. He is not a teddy bear and is to be feared as well as adored. I was reading mathew today not even sure what I was looking for when I came across mathew 25:45-46 which states: then he will answer them saying assuredly I say to you in as much as you did not do it unto the least of these you did not do it to me and these will go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into eternal life. The word everlasting caught my attention and I said to myself well the nkjv says everlasting I wonder what the niv says? and the niv said eternal and the new living translation also says eternal. but I never make my interpretation from one scripture alone so I searched the rest of the word and here is what I found concerning the matter.
Daniel 12:1-2
At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt
Matthew 25:31-46
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” . . . Then he will say to those on his left, “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. . . . And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
2 Thessalonians 1:5-10
This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
Jude 7
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
So As I read and found these the scriptures appear to be very clear on an eternal fire or eternal suffering or eternal punishment, and I read from different translations and they all say the same thing. So yes I know it seems unfair to some I know that to some they cannot see a loving Father who throws ppl into eternal fire and sadly it is this very subject that repels many ppl from following God and even turns some into an atheist but we also have to remember that there are many things we do not and may never understand about God. Yes he is a very tender and loving God but at the same time is a mighty God who hates sin and judges with a fair righteous and mighty hammer. As I said before he is not a teddy bear and is not a tame God
The debate on eternal damnation has popped up here and there lately, many say that a loving father such as God would never make someone suffer for eternity. I myself did not want to believe this and I still don't, I do not wish that any person would have to endure the fires of all for all eternity but I also understand that just because I don't want to believe it just because it doesn't seem right or fair to me doesn't matter for out thoughts are not his thoughts and he is a righteous and fair God.
True enough he is a very loving father but he is not a tame God he does have a righteous anger and judgement. He is not a teddy bear and is to be feared as well as adored. I was reading mathew today not even sure what I was looking for when I came across mathew 25:45-46 which states: then he will answer them saying assuredly I say to you in as much as you did not do it unto the least of these you did not do it to me and these will go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into eternal life. The word everlasting caught my attention and I said to myself well the nkjv says everlasting I wonder what the niv says? and the niv said eternal and the new living translation also says eternal. but I never make my interpretation from one scripture alone so I searched the rest of the word and here is what I found concerning the matter.
Daniel 12:1-2
At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt
Matthew 25:31-46
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” . . . Then he will say to those on his left, “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. . . . And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
2 Thessalonians 1:5-10
This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
Jude 7
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
So As I read and found these the scriptures appear to be very clear on an eternal fire or eternal suffering or eternal punishment, and I read from different translations and they all say the same thing. So yes I know it seems unfair to some I know that to some they cannot see a loving Father who throws ppl into eternal fire and sadly it is this very subject that repels many ppl from following God and even turns some into an atheist but we also have to remember that there are many things we do not and may never understand about God. Yes he is a very tender and loving God but at the same time is a mighty God who hates sin and judges with a fair righteous and mighty hammer. As I said before he is not a teddy bear and is not a tame God
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