While I am in sympathy with your plight and suffering you endured while traveling in the Middle East, if you are truly a present Christian you should be a follower of Christ's words and life and be concerned for men who face
eternal damnation as Jesus taught.
It never know that I AM Second Coming and I AM punish it to
the eternal damnation as u have unto ME and the least of My brother!
Atheists don't use fear of
eternal damnation as a selling point... but religion does.
Not exact matches
The depiction of hell
as a place of
eternal punishment and torture of sinners has been an unnecessary roadblock to faith for many for it suggests a God who unfairly punishes sins of 70 years on earth
as warranting
eternal damnation.
And while the cost of not «turning to Jesus» may be high (
eternal damnation may qualify
as such), the odds of it actually happening are virtually zero.
It's still a theological inconsistency of fatal proportions (no pun intended)-- God sets a man along a path aligned with God's plan, knowing the results of God's plan will cause the man to commit a «mortal» sin to end his terrible remorse (which wouldn't have happened were it not for playing his part
as God wanted him to do), resulting in
eternal damnation, and God allows it to happen?
In each chapter, DeYoung addresses the most noteworthy, and often most controversial, emergent theological viewpoints, hitting on such issues
as scriptural authority, inaugurated eschatology,
eternal damnation, and Jesus's death and resurrection.
The final passage is the closest we come to a designation of «heresy»
as someone condemned by God to
eternal damnation in the Bible.
According to catholic teaching, the existence of hell, of a state of
eternal damnation, is an article of faith (
as indeed, given free will and evil, it is a logical necessity); but that some human beings are or will be in fact damned is not an article of faith (though again logically it must be regarded
as a possibility): hence Pere Teilhard's prayer further on in this passage.
It is interesting to me that the notion of
eternal damnation does not appear to have been accepted at all in the first 3 or 4 centuries and then
as you say, by the 6th the
damnation crowd had won the battle.
In Inferno XXIX, Dante emphasizes this point by comparing counterfeiters, victims of a plague - like ailment in their
eternal damnation, to those plague victims on the island of Aegina described by Ovid, who were replaced by «ant - people» — «secondo che i poeti hanno per fermo» (
as the poets hold for certain).
Do the words pronounced against the officer and the king,
as Words of God, carry with them the
eternal damnation of these men?
You are sending a message to people, such
as myself, who aren't afraid in
eternal damnation, simply because we don't believe in it.
Through my continual searching of the Christian faith, I quickly learned I could no longer accept Christianity merely
as a tool for avoiding
eternal damnation.
As for
eternal damnation, hell, and all that — it's far too complex for me to weigh in... I think hell exists for those who separate themselves from God, but we know from the Book of Acts that Christians were having themselves baptized in the name of the dead.
You can make people do what you want, but I want them to have a heart change
as I am not happy that some will go to
eternal damnation because of their greed and lies.
I don't know, Sean, I am an atheist and I have a GREAT deal of respect for both spirituality and for theism, insomuch
as it is practiced in a way that does not assume that,
as and atheist, I am condemned to
eternal damnation or that I have no morals or sense of right or wrong.
Or some hear the gospel
as a metaphorical message about how to live a better life in the here and now and view any talk of after - lives,
eternal damnation, and saving
as only metaphor that tends to get abused when it is used to stir up fear in order to get converts and tithing members.
No, because the end justify s the means and you have already made up your mind that you are right about Jesus and there can be no other truth, and it's never about learning more about different people and cultures and religions, it's about making sure anyone who is different knows you are a Christian which is the only sensible way to live and anyone who is not like you is either converted, attacked, pitied or dismissed
as a fool who awaits
eternal damnation.
A third approach was articulated by a group who came to be known
as Christian Socialists, who were led by F. D. Maurice (1805 - 72), who was Professor of Theology at Kings College, London, from 1846 until he was dismissed when his Theological Essays (1853) provoked a crisis because he questioned the teaching of
eternal damnation.
Thee good soil represents someone who; * admits and understands that they are indebted to God because of their sinful nature * that sin equals
eternal damnation hellfire * they turn to Jesus
as our own saviour to abide in his covenant to fully repent of sins and become holy enduring right to the end * remember Jesus said you can not serve the world and God, or money and god you can not be a master to both * the path to
eternal life is very narrow and strait and only few are able to find it you have to let go of your desires and dictates of the flesh and always embrace and find happiness serving god set your eyes on Jesus... crucify your desires..
This may involve a more thorough study of the Book of Revelation,
as many great misunderstandings have resulted from it's teachings and many extreme doctrines of
eternal damnation have been produced from it.
Personally, I believe ANY teaching of God
as vengeful or threatening
eternal punishment /
damnation is child abuse.
Guilt of being born with a sin, fear of
eternal damnation, and the ignorance to believe in what some other fool has passed down the line
as the ultimate truth.
There was no possibility of repentance after death;
as we must note, there was either the definite sending to
eternal damnation of the evil man or the preparation of the good man for a final heavenly state (in circles that did not accept some doctrine of an «intermediate state», there was instead a sort of «waiting» until the final consummation)-- but the moment of death, with its judgement of this and that individual, was absolutely final in its determination of the direction that was thereafter to be taken.
But today we abhor the very notion of
eternal suffering inflicted; and that arbitrary dealing - out of salvation and
damnation to selected individuals, of which Jonathan Edwards could persuade himself that he had not only a conviction, but a «delightful conviction,»
as of a doctrine «exceeding pleasant, bright, and sweet,» appears to us, if sovereignly anything, sovereignly irrational and mean.
Second Peter 2:1 is the closest we come to a designation of «heresy»
as a doctrine or teaching condemned by God with the consequence that those who believe it are condemned to
eternal damnation.
Fear of
eternal damnation in hell could act
as a deterrent, but belief in a forgiving god may make crime more tempting
As soon as you hear someone spouting off droughts, hurricanes, floods, snow, ice, and the eternal damnation..
As soon
as you hear someone spouting off droughts, hurricanes, floods, snow, ice, and the eternal damnation..
as you hear someone spouting off droughts, hurricanes, floods, snow, ice, and the
eternal damnation....