Homward,,,being kept alive in an eternal torture chamber for eternity is no just punishment for a few years of sin.
God is Just! The punishment must fit the crime, otherwise God would be a torturer, evil and exacting and mean,,, all attributes of Satan!
Bible is clear!!!! The wicked are obliterated!!!
The Bible say the wicked suffer "death" (Romans 6:23), will suffer "destruction" (Job 21:30), "shall perish" (Psalm 37:20), will "Burn" up (Malachi 4:1), "shall be destroyed together" (Psalm 37:38), will "consume away" (Psalm 37:20), "shall be cut off" (Psalm 37:9), "shall be slain" (Psalm 62:3). God will "destroy them" (Psalm 145:20), and "fire shall devour them" (Psalm 21:9).
Note that all of these references make it clear that the wicked die and are destroyed. They do not live forever in misery!
God is Merciful, even to the wicked!
oh Yes and this Mercy final is shown to us all at the cross where he took away the sin of the world for all at the death,
And left one thing left to either believe and receive new life in the Spirit of God by the resurrected Christ or go on with our bad selves being God in the flesh as what is what happened to Adam and Eve, They became alive in the flesh and by flesh and blood one is selfish to themselves, not alive to God.
The fight remains either one is of the flesh or of the Spirit of God. I see no other way to slice, dice and or cube this truth.
[h=3]John 10:10[/h]King James Version (KJV)
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10 [/SUP]The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:
I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
[h=3]Galatians 5:16-26[/h]King James Version (KJV)
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16 [/SUP]This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
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17 [/SUP]For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
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18 [/SUP]But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
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19 [/SUP]Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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20 [/SUP]Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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21 [/SUP]Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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22 [/SUP]But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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23 [/SUP]Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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24 [/SUP]And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
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25 [/SUP]If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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26 [/SUP]Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.