There is no eternal life in hell.
i wouldn't call hell's existence anything remotely close to life.
Jesus describes it as an exceedingly miserable experience. Weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth.
The Bible says that only those who are believers in Jesus, followers in his ways, will receive eternal life.
yep.
Those in hell die, are destroyed, or perish just like everything in the Old Testament and New Testament says.
by all means, please provide biblical references for this.
So what you have here amounts to nothing more than fear mongering.
if it weren't for Ezekiel 33, 2 Corinthians 5:11, Revelation 20-21:8, Proverbs 27:5-6, 28:4, Psalm 141:5, and several others, I'd agree with you.
But because those passages do exist, as Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 9 about all means.... I'll continue to work through this.
While there are good reasons to fear God, eternal conscious torment isn't one of them.
Really? Then why did Jesus say
Mat 10:28 WEB Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
While I appreciate your efforts to encourage others to come to Christ, there is a right way and a wrong way to do this.
Indeed. yet I don't see anything from you, encouraging people to turn to Jesus.
Matthew 10
28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Yep.
Which is why I'm wondering why you're criticizing what I'm doing.
I have a great idea.
Please read Ezekiel 33, and then explain why you think that this is the wrong way.
Oh, BTW, I've been talking with these guys and gals for over a decade now, and have given them everything that pertains to life and godliness.
They've previously established that they have no interest in the gospel of Jesus.
This op is a biblical description, giving practical information on what awaits them, should they, in the end, refuse to come to Jesus.
All this said, I visited your bio, and see that you've been over in the theology forum.
Welcome to the atheist forum.
Instead of telling me how to do this, jump right in and talk with the atheists.
My focus has been incorporating the bible because of Isaiah 55:8-11, and 1 Cor. 2:4-7.
Others have used the classic Apologetics arguments, and they just shred those for fun.
It's become fairly clear to me that they don't actually want to know God, on God's terms.
A former member, from the previous revision of the forum once stated it in the following terms.
After extensive back and forth, I finally asked them if they wanted to know God or not.
They said they only wanted to know if God was real, without actually being involved in a relationship with him.
I explained to them that this had been explained to them repeatedly, since they came to the forum, back in the 00's.
I then explained to them that the only way to actually know that God is real, and knowable, in practical, real world terms, is by coming to Jesus. At which point, Jesus and God will come and make their home with them. I included John 14:20-24, with emphasis on vs 23.
That apparently was not what they wanted, and said they just wanted an argument that would intellectually convince them that God is real.
I told them that there was no "argument" that would definitively prove God's existence.
They eventually left the forums.
They may be here under a different name. In Late 2019, through early October 2020, the forum software experienced a catastrophic failure.
All the former members losts thousands of posts, and extensive discussions about all the biblical topics, Apologetics discussions, etc....
So, essentially, we've started over again, even though we all remember what was before.