Thank you. Sometimes it seems you are supporting annihilation and other times not. So when you say "the destruction they mention is exclusively in reference to the Lake of Fire after the Great White Throne Judgment (Which takes place after the Millennium)." you mean they are not destroyed in the LoF but... what? In post #314 you say,The Bodily Resurrection of the Damned for the Wicked (Which will take place after the Judgment to destroy them both soul and body in the Lake of Fire). I believe in the destruction of body and soul for those who refuse God in the LoF.
In post #307 you say "They do not understand that the word "forever" and it's related words do not always mean forever in the Bible." I entered this thread where you were expositing on this, which is why I at first assumed you supported annihilation. I understand that forever sometimes simply means until God's purpose is achieved. In fact I saw one Scripture recently that said something about us walking on their ashes (the ashes of those who are destroyed). Maybe I need to start at the beginning to better understand Conditional Immortality?
"Hell is still a real place. It's just not a place where people are burned in flames. At least not that we are of according to the Scriptures anyways."
I agree
In post #307 you say "They do not understand that the word "forever" and it's related words do not always mean forever in the Bible." I entered this thread where you were expositing on this, which is why I at first assumed you supported annihilation. I understand that forever sometimes simply means until God's purpose is achieved. In fact I saw one Scripture recently that said something about us walking on their ashes (the ashes of those who are destroyed). Maybe I need to start at the beginning to better understand Conditional Immortality?
"Hell is still a real place. It's just not a place where people are burned in flames. At least not that we are of according to the Scriptures anyways."
I agree
Believe What the Jewish Apostles Taught -- Why Conditional Immortality Is True and Biblical
However, to forewarn you, they believe in "Soul Sleep" of which I find to be Unbiblical.
I believed in Dualistic Conditionalism long before I learned of its official name given by those in the Conditional Immortality camp.
Here is where I discovered it's name.
Dualistic Conditionalism still bothers me
But for clarity, I believe in a real hell but I do not believe it is a torture chamber. I believe it is more like an uncomfortable prison. But what about those wicked people who died in the flood? Have they been down there for thousands of years? Does their punishment of being locked up in a bad prison for so long seem unfair? I honestly do not have an official answer from Scripture on this (And the Scriptures say I am not to go beyond what is written). Granted it is possible that time operates differently there but there is no way to be sure. What I do know is that God is fair and just in His Judgments and the answer will be revealed to us in time. But I believe that when a wicked person dies, they go to hell (but they will not be burning in any actual flames), and they will in time face the Judgment, and then receive a new body so as to be destroyed both body and soul in the Lake of Fire (Which sits beneath Hell). For Hell is described as an island in Scripture.
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