Nineveh said:
A reply has a "." at the end not a "?". Want to try answering again? Points for the dodge though.
And...you didn't answer the question. Was that a dodge or a ram?
God is the One that puts an end to the unrepentant's reign of terror. God puts them in a place where they can hurt themselves and others for all eternity, because that's what their heart is intent on doing. Now, while there is life and hope to influence their hearts, is the time to preach the Gospel!
So the people who hold your view believe. But that isn't the only way to put an end to sin...in fact, it doesn't put and end to it at all. All this says is that God, in the end, acquiesces to evil and allows it to continue forever. This is a God soft on sin.
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Golly, that ALL had limits, didn't it? Here again, yanking a tiny phrase out of context does not leave you free to liberate people from the lake.
It has no limits.
How long is "eternal", logos? How about "forever"?
So...changing the meaning of eon is what it takes to believe in "eternal" torment.
Somehow you still miss the point though.
Will it make the part I quoted go away?
No, it doesn't go away. There are ages where separation from among the people are fulfilled. Simple.
So..when death is destroyed, God must do that...and IF it is destroyed, it no longer exists, and holds no one captive.
You can't delete the resurrection.
Yes. There is. Eternal life and eternal damnation to be exact.
Aionion life, and aionion chastisment, Nin...if you really want to be exact.
And here again, people are getting dumped into the garbage heap after death. I mean we don;t need to get picky here, because all of it gets thrown into the garbage heap about the same time. Either way, all the refuse winds up in the garbage dump in the end. Why do you insist God has to live in or be party to or actually have in Himself all things unclean that He threw away? Do you do that? Toss away the rotten egg shells, then keep them around?
Do you throw away the good with the bad Nin?
Can't the "unclean" be cleansed?
People are very complex things...and God for some crazy reason values them. What makes a person "garbage" Nin? Isn't it a LACK of what God is, of who God is?
God saves sinners. You would have Him throw them away FOREVER and never save them. Why bother keeping them around at all if He has no intention of saving anything? Might as well annihilate them so He wouldn't have a corner of His new creation reserved so "sinner garbage" can continue to hurt each other forever. Instead, you have God giving them a room to sin in...under conditions of burning torture...and call it "justice" for no reason other than that God (supposedly) is completely satisfied with that.
Well, He isn't satisfied. And we shouldn't be either.