Thanks for the quote from Matthew.
You are quite welcome Sal. I am utterly amazed at some of the stuff I am reading here. Things like getting sins burned away. I don’t buy it. MM is right. The ONLY way, on God’s green earth, to have one’s sins “ burned away,” if someone wants to use that term, is by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. There simply is NO OTHER WAY.
Sal, I saw your definition of Sheol, and Hades. I think I agree. They mean the same thing it’s just one is Hebrew, and one is Greek, but mean the realm of the unsaved, spiritually dead souls of the wicked. Here is my opinion. I tend to think that the only difference between Hades and the Lake of Fire, is that Hades is temporary, but the Lake of Fire is permanent. Sal, I think we have discussed this before, that people are dying, every second of every day, and the vast majority of the people dying, fall like snow flakes into a Christless eternity, into hell fire and brimstone, from which there is NO escape, ever. The reason the Lake of Fire continues, is because, in Hell, sinners continue to sin. They don’t become better, they become worse. Just how much sinners in Hell, will be permitted to sin, is not clear, nor do I think it is important. What IS important, is telling people how they can avoid becoming a statistic, and assure their names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Make sense?