Because they have not repented of their sins, and the wages of sin is death.Timotheos,
I fully believe what He says. God is not in the business of destroying His creation, surely, not creatures that bear His Image. Why would He need to destroy them. I Cor 15:53 says that He will raise all the dead to immortality and incorruptibility. Why would He even raise them just to destroy them?
Evidence? Do you mean like some Church Leader who says that the lost will be destroyed in Hell? Jesus Christ is the Leader of the Church and He said in Matthew 10:28 that the body and soul would be destroyed in Hell. Is the word of Jesus Christ enough for you, or did you need the word of some Roman Catholic bishop?If you think I an still incorrect, find some evidence that the Church has ever held the belief that God will destroy those in hell?
Nothing in Scripture supports the destruction of the lost? Are you serious???So, which one is correct? You pick "destroy" and nothing in scripture supports it. See above comments.
I've already mentioned Matthew 10:28 "be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell", see also 2 Thess 1:9, "These pay the penalty of eternal destruction", Matthew 3:12 the chaff is consumed by fire, 1 Corinthians 13:7 "God will destroy him", Hebrews 10:27, the fire consumes His adversaries,
Hebrews 10:39 we are not those who shrink back to destruction,
James 4:12
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy,
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
2 Peter 3:7
But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Jude 5
Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.
Jude 10
But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.
Revelation 17:8
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction.
Psalm 1:4-6
Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
I could go on and on and on.
This is interesting. You claim that those who receive eternal life from Jesus Christ and inherit immortality are no different from those who reject Jesus Christ, do not receive eternal life and are destroyed. You are wrong. Believer live forever and unbelievers perish and remain dead forever and do not have eternal life. Your view is not supported by scripture.In other words, there is really no difference between a believer and an unbeliever with your definition.
That's too bad. Once you honestly investigate it, you will find it to be true. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. That is what I believe, and it contradicts the false view that the wages of sin is eternal conscious torment in hell.I have never read anyone that believes as you do. However, if you think it is the meaning of those words in contradiction to other statements, give the evidence that it has always been believed as you are stating it.
This is incorrect, the Bible never ever says that unbelievers have eternal life. The Bible specifically says that they do not have eternal life. See 1 John 5:11-12First, eternal life as used in scripture has the unstated meaning of being IN Christ. That was the whole purpose of God creating man and Christ redeeming man, to have union with Him. But unbelievers also have eternal life, an eternal physical existence.
"And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life."
Your opinion here is not supported by scripture, Scripture contradicts your opinion, as I have shown. Those who will perish are not raised to immortality, Immortality is a gift from God only to those who put their faith in Him. "Whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life."All the dead will be raised to immortality and incorruptibility. God does not annihilate His most prized creatures, those that bear His Image.
Those who believe in Jesus Christ will have eternal life.
Those who reject Jesus Christ will not have eternal life, they will perish just as the Bible says.