Ive always had a hard time with the teaching of the turn or burn gospel.
In short preaching a loving GOD that demands that you believe or are cast into everlasting torment seems to me to be a oxy moron.
Is there something I'm missing?
Ive discovered something the Lord may have pointed to that may be what is missing but first would like to hear others view points.
Eternal damnation is a heavey price to pay which is what the wages of sin brings.
In this day and age as the nations are being addressed by their actions by God it has shown me a great deal of proofs of simple truths. Which we can share later on.
think of it as God creating a perfect world to fill with his beloved children
“Nevertheless we,
according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
2 Peter 3:13 KJV
If evil people exist in a new perfect world the creation is going to just fall i to sin and death again , if you give a wicked man eternal life he’s going to do wickedness forever and harm the other people in the world
In parables like this from the lord there is a way of seeing how he’s going to born up the things that don’t belong in Eternity sadly the people who serve evil in this world will share in its fate if they don’t repent and believe
“He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
the field is the world;
the good seed are
the children of the kingdom;
but the tares are
the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil;
the harvest is the end of the world;
and the reapers are the angels.
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Then shall
the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
Matthew 13:37-43 KJV
this kind of thing taught by Jesus isn’t there to condemn or disqualify us but to call us to repentance if we haven’t come yet to the place where we set our mind and heart against sin to hear things like that should impact our faith in Christ
“so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. “
this is to create a healthy fear if we’re aware that we are doing iniquity and have convinced ourself it’s not a big deal , this is to change our thinking about that create a reason to repent a good reverent fear that we need to get real with this and start walking the walk even if we don’t yet walk in time and on step we have to decide to walk first freely of our own Will when we meet the real Jesus we can choose to follow him because we believe he laid down his life to save us and came to teach us the truth and offer us salvation and life
there’s always the same contrast
“
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all
the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Then shall the King say unto
them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
…..Then shall he say
also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment:
but
the righteous into life eternal.”
Matthew 25:31-32, 34, 41, 46
now to be clear my opinion is that people aren’t going to burn in torment forever but will be burned up and will perish away and be no more after they pay thier due I believe just my opinion , they will eventually die and be forgotten from creation
I believe the lake of fire is the second death and so this happens
“And death and hell were cast into
the lake of fire.
This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was
cast into the lake of fire.”
Revelation 20:14-15 KJV
and then
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven
and
the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.”
Revelation 21:1 KJV
So in Peters words you have this first
“but
the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
(then this )
… Nevertheless
we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
2 Peter 3:7, 10, 13 KJV
or in Isaiah words it still seems as if the world and everything in it is completely destroyed by the fire and it’s no longer even remembered
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and
the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”
Isaiah 65:17 KJV
I believe people will pay for thier sins and he’ll is a real terrible place but also I believe hell is destroyed and n the second death and will
Perish also and not be remembered anymore
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
Revelation 21:4 KJV
i believe there is a time when all things not eternal will pass away and eternity won’t even recall th e horrors we caused in the first creation
i do believe it is either or though either we believe and live or reject and die
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