Sentences with phrase «eternal punishment»

The phrase "eternal punishment" means to face never-ending consequences or suffering for one's actions. It suggests that the punishment will last forever and will not come to an end. Full definition
Because humans are sinners, we deserve eternal punishment for our eternal offense.
This is not about «joining a club», this is about helping other to avoid eternal punishment.
Human justice could never suffer eternal punishment for finite sin, however grave.
So that part about «and these shall go away into eternal punishment,» is that literal?
Do you believe in the possibility of eternal punishment after death?
And all of them will be sent to the lake of fire where they will receive eternal punishment.
What is just about eternal punishment for a finite offense?
Those on his left hand are likewise informed that they are destined to eternal punishment because they did not do these things for «the least of these».
We are just tiny beings in Gods universe and he doesn't owe you anything but he loves you anyways so why send yourself to eternal punishment when it's so easy to believe!
I can speak for myself and as a former believer understand why many will not speak for themselves — fear of an imaginary eternal punishment.
It arose as a response to an abusive Roman Catholic theology that placed the burden of eternal punishment squarely upon the shoulders of sinners.
The freedom to be a good, moral, ethical and loving human without the threat of eternal punishment will bring true and honest happiness.
People often confuse the term perish here with eternal punishment in hell.
God is not dangling your sin over your head as a way of threatening you with eternal punishment in hell.
Entirely aside from this, however, this view that Jesus is the Savior because he saved us from eternal punishment by dying for our sins is untenable for three reasons.
Perhaps because other creation myths do not depict an angry, vengeful, confrontational «god» who threatens eternal punishment for not believing in «him» and only «him».
when it fails to do so, it LIES to them again and says they MUST grow old celibate, alone, and unloved, or face eternal punishment.
Thus with the condemnation of sinners to eternal punishment God's kingdom would come suddenly and dramatically.
Justice demands that people pay for their wrongs and if their is no payment large enough to pay for a wrong, then eternal punishment is the only true justice.
@ karl: is your god so petty and paranoid that he would visit eternal punishment on one of his creations — that he is supposed to love — just because that creation decided to use its brain to question the existence of this god?
Austin, Not one single sane person would choose eternal punishment, so it is only by witholding information that anyone could end up making choices that would lead him or her to that position.
Critics of religion often claim that its adherents grovellingly obey moral laws, not for the sake of leading a good life or behaving altruistically, but for fear of eternal punishment at the hands of a vindictive God.
Christians are taught to say the only alternative to eternal life is eternal punishment so we are using a loaded term that is more complex than it appears.
Not only does he love to punish, he is purported to have set the entire mechanism in motion for assuring eternal punishment by applying the label «sin» to anything which mankind is naturally predisposed.
Warnings of eternal punishment soon follow as they throw their boogeyman understanding of god around.
For the virtuous there is reward in the next life and for the wicked eternal punishment
Chrysostom regards Paul as the ideal pastor in this and other respects and cites Paul's eagerness to incur eternal punishment that his kinsmen after the flesh might be saved.
And while Eternal Punishment could be played without knowing the first part of the story, fans still couldn't help but feel they were losing out on a groundbreaking game.
Obviously the only rational explanation is that an all knowing and all powerful being, who is invisible and who requires that people worship it at the penalty of eternal punishment just puffed everything into existence.
God loves you, accept his son and you will avoid eternal punishment after death.
In order to save yourself from eternal punishment after you die, you must ask someone, who already believes - for whatever reason, their theories on the mental state of a god who spoke to a small social group 2000 years ago.
My question is, «What do you say to a person who has experienced horrible evil from the hands of another person (such as: abuse, rape, war, etc.) when they find out you believe that his / her tormentor will be reconciled to God and not suffer eternal punishment
YeaOK... Breaking free from the chains of religion to be a moral, ethical, loving human being by choice without the threat of eternal punishment in hell IS the only true freedom!!
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