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Old 07-30-2009, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Florida
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God has been expressed as a consuming fire.
Burning off all that which prevents purity.

Perhaps, if hell as a fire is only metaphor, then those who inhabit it desire no purity.
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Old 07-30-2009, 07:04 PM
 
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Hell will make Florida seem like winter time in summer,thats how hot it will be and then the gnashing of teeth and being separate from others and God.

I believe the loneliness will be the worst part.
Every fundamentalist has a different fantasy about what pagan myth of hell is like, while the bible has nothing to say on the matter ... So everyone is left up to their own imaginations. People take every conceivable negative word of prophecy and apply to one amalgamation of the most twisted musings of man which is what they then use as a weapon to threaten the rest of the world, whoever doesn't agree with them with, and then they turn around and say that they love you and God loves you afterwards. So sad ...
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Old 07-30-2009, 07:44 PM
 
Location: God's Country
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Hell will make Florida seem like winter time in summer,thats how hot it will be and then the gnashing of teeth and being separate from others and God.

I believe the loneliness will be the worst part.
Exactly! The eternal separation from God will be the worst thing. And remember the burning bush that spoke to Moses, it was engulfed with flames yet never burned up.
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Old 07-30-2009, 07:48 PM
 
Location: NC
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So everyone is left up to their own imaginations. People take every conceivable negative word of prophecy and apply to one amalgamation of the most twisted musings of man which is what they then use as a weapon to threaten the rest of the world, whoever doesn't agree with them with, and then they turn around and say that they love you and God loves you afterwards. So sad ...
Yep. God loves you even though He knew that you would never "choose Him" in this life and when He brought you into existence the eternal torment was waiting there to cast you into it. Yes, He loves you and He is your Savior. God bless.
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Old 07-30-2009, 08:14 PM
 
Location: The A
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Yep. God loves you even though He knew that you would never "choose Him" in this life and when He brought you into existence the eternal torment was waiting there to cast you into it. Yes, He loves you and He is your Savior. God bless.
God is not the Saviour of them He never knew and hated..

Matt 7:


And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

I never knew you, depart from me, but I loved you

Thats absurd..
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Old 07-30-2009, 08:21 PM
 
Location: NC
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God has been expressed as a consuming fire.
Burning off all that which prevents purity.
I agree, God bless.
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Old 07-30-2009, 10:16 PM
 
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Thats absurd..

Not nearly as absurd as actually believing your safe from a God who creates beings for the sole purpose to burn them in hell and using his power to never let their flesh turn to ash.
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Old 07-30-2009, 10:30 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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according to St. Augustine God will create a miracle to make them burning forever, the Koran says, God will give them new flash and skin everytime the old is burned.
So your God is the God of love, huh?
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Old 07-31-2009, 12:34 AM
 
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Not nearly as absurd as actually believing your safe from a God who creates beings for the sole purpose to burn them in hell and using his power to never let their flesh turn to ash.
Yes, but we still have Jesus' words lurking. "I NEVER knew you! Depart from me!" Now how do we turn that "plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face rejection into a UR where, when Jesus says, "I NEVER knew you, He really was saying, "I knew you" and when He says, "Depart from Me" He was really saying, "Come to me." I just cannot see it. If someone can work magic and turn a negative into a positive without a lot of smoke-and-mirrors obfuscation, I'm all ears.
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Old 07-31-2009, 12:57 AM
 
Location: New Zealand
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So your God is the God of love, huh?
Possibly St Augustine was not a very good witness for the God of Love ....
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