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To: ScubieNuc
Hell is the temporary place of the unsaved, but Hell is destroyed in the Lake of Fire along with death and the unsaved.

You assume that in John's vision, a playback of what has not yet happened, Hell is destroyed in the Lake of Fire. I believe that's not quite so. Yes, it ceases to exist as a separate entity, but fuses into a part of that which is of the same nature, only larger (and hotter?); similar to a glass of water being tossed into a river.

Death was also cast into the Lake of Fire, but was not destroyed, either; it retains its characteristic of being the overriding principle operating in the Lake of Fire.

You may say that those humans whose name was/is not written in the Book of Life will have a brief moment of respite at the moment they are rejoined to a corrupted body and fairly judged, just before they are thrown back into the hellish never-ending Lake of Fire to accompany the Beast (anti-god), the false prophet (anti-christ), Satan-dragon (anti-spirit), and all fallen angels.

But all this is not the motivating cause of salvation. It is only the basis for conviction, one's recognition and agreement with the sentence deserved for ones crimes against The God.

It is the yearning cry for mercy while it is available, upon which The God acts through the faith of Christ to save, IMHO.

69 posted on 05/08/2014 7:38:35 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1; ScubieNuc
Jesus talked about hell more than any other person in the Bible. He warned those listening, “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).

The reality of hell should frighten us, because not one word in the Bible about hell would ever make you want to go there — not if you take it seriously. The Bible speaks of hell as a place of absolute loneliness and despair and hopelessness. It calls it a place of “darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 22:13).

But Jesus didn’t talk about hell just to scare us. He talked about it instead because He wanted us to know that God has provided a way of escape! God doesn’t want us to be separated from Him forever. He loves us, and He wants us to spend eternity with Him in heaven. Unlike hell, we all know about heaven as a place of joy, peace, freedom from all the fears and pains of this world.
71 posted on 05/08/2014 7:57:57 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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