Sentences with phrase «eternal punishment in»

In fact, from my reading of scripture, it is difficult to find one reference to an eternal punishment in hell in the whole of the OT.

People often confuse the term perish here with eternal punishment in hell.

That is to say, it excludes the cruel and godless idea of the popular belief in an eternal punishment in hell.

And of course since atheism is Absolute, Complete and Total NONSENSE, the atheists lacks the certainty in a Resurrection, in Eternal Rewards in Heaven and Eternal Punishment in the other Place that IS NOT Heaven.

They are usually literalists when it concerns the second coming of Christ, the resurrection of Jesus as an historical event, the existence of eternal punishment in hell.

I just don't read the word «fire» in Jude as a reference to eternal punishment in a firey location...

And once the Emperor made his decision, the losing side was often condemned, not only to eternal punishment in hell, but sometimes even to death by stoning, beheading, hanging, or by what became the most popular method: burning at the stake.

God is not dangling your sin over your head as a way of threatening you with eternal punishment in hell.

God made a choice — he chose some individuals to be saved unto everlasting blessedness in heaven, and he chose others to pass over, allowing them to suffer the consequences of their sins, eternal punishment in hell (Sproul, Grace Unknown, 141).

I too, have dealt with blasphemous thoughts against the Holy Spirit, so much, in fact, that I actually began to resent the Holy Spirit for even existing, because the very mention of him in the Bible would fill my mind with terror over blaspheming Him and thereby fearing unforgiveness and eternal punishment in hell.

Some preachers believe that the only way people of today are going to come to God is if they fear eternal punishment in the afterlife.

Not exact matches

I just don't (personally) see any redemptive value in the teachings of eternal punishment.

And The Father Almighty and His Beloved Son, The Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Southern Queen have struck u and punished the Serpent and its follower in the Lake of Fire has brimstone and sulfur and unquenchable fire that is the Eternal Punishment for those Capital Punishment!

But (for me) it's far wiser to stick to concrete consequences (like playing on the freeway, or choosing to play in a playground instead) rather than resorting to «eternal» punishments or rewards in order for people to make proper decisions.

In Christianity, there is eternal punishment for «crimes» committed in a finite lifIn Christianity, there is eternal punishment for «crimes» committed in a finite lifin a finite life.

There are loads of justifications from christians who really do believe in the eternal punishment thing.

By even 1 mortal sin — a fully - knowing and fully - deliberate act against God's law (the 10 commandments)-- you reject God, too, and thereby merit eternal separation from God and punishment in Hell.

Meanwhile, in early Christianity, you had guys like Origen who preached and teached Universal Restoration / Reconciliation (the belief that, one day, God will reconcile / restore humanity to himself, that ALL will be saved); he did not believe in eternal punishment.

Perhaps god doesn't like a bunch of mindless sheeple, and lets in only people who think for themselves and live honest and compassionate lives because they think it's a good idea, not because they fear eternal punishment.

Also, what makes you so sure that when given eternal punishment automatically means eternal in duration and not eternal as meaning that it is just simply in reference to God's punishment because one of the names for God is eternal like Alpha and Omega.

They move chunks of information around in ways nothing else can — as payloads that convey intolerance, suppression of ideas and opinions, even violence at times, and persecution of dissenters, all with the weight behind it of an all - powerful God and it's eternal rewards and punishments that are conveniently hidden in an unknowable afterlife.

This almost makes me wish I believed in an afterlife so that i could fell this hateful nasty b a s t a r d could finally get the eternal punishment he deserves.

That is something to worry about — that there are people who can't imagine living for the common good and who feel they must believe in eternal punishment else they will do things that they think we all should fear.

What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.

God's people do not take comfort in the eternal punishment for that rejection, but we do take comfort that God will be glorified eternally by all men, whether in heaven with Him by His grace and love, or separated as receivers of His righteous wrath.

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!

God nbever punshed children for their parents crimes... death isnot always a punishment... cause the ultimate punishment is eternal life in hell... you are looking at wrong perspective there here and now in a temporary world

Jesus» teaching fits together in a similar way: «eternal punishment» consists of torment followed by destruction — like a combined sentence of hard labour followed by execution.

If only those who have discovered that could be left alone to bask in that discovery, but so often they are told that they are heretics and doomed for eternal punishment.

To me, a perfect judgement and sentence of the evil person would require more than just a punishment in eternal flame, since he would still be capable of cursing God, fostering hatred and perversion and all sorts of other humanly sinful ways while he was being eternally tormented.

The good news, the Gospel, is that while God is holy and we are sinners, and sin deserves punishment, God, out of His great love for us, sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die in our place for our sin so that anyone who wants eternal life in heaven with God can simply believe in Jesus Christ for it and it will be given to them.

The one that merely fears the punishment, for him it can not remain eternally true, for there is nothing eternal in him, since the Eternal can only be in him if he wills the Good ineternal in him, since the Eternal can only be in him if he wills the Good inEternal can only be in him if he wills the Good in truth.

God selects those to be saved in relation to the number of fallen angels, and the eternal punishment of hell is prepared for the condemned and therefore unrepentant sinners.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.»

«Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really quickened by divine grace, and made to feel the weight of sin, it thinks the bottomless pit none too deep, and the punishment of hell none too severe for sin such as it has committed.

You crave punishment because it makes you feel somehow superior, or correct in your discovery of «God's Word» in a book which was written and edited and re-edited (as well as redacted) by countless rulers and scholars along the way, each wishing to have some stake in the claim of the Eternal.

If I'm an unbeliever till my dying day and am punished (however you believe that punishment to be, whether its eternal hel.lfire or just barred access into heaven) I can't exactly go back and redo my life believing in god because I know the consequence.

@Topher, «And I'm sure a murderer will get a more - severe punishment than someone who only thinks it,...» In the Biblical view aren't both punishments the same, i.e. eternal torture?

Not saying i don't believe in future punishment, i» am just not sure if i believe in eternal damnation anymore, i» am open to other possibilities (including possible salvation after death).

Dear Jeremy I want to know that we all know that god is very loving and forgiving he will forgive every sin except one and that is blasphemy against the holy spirit and god can even forgive murder then why not such a sin that can be forgiven with in half an hour by an average human then why the punishment is really much worse eternal damnation?

As for hell and eternal punishment, I do believe in some sort of eternal separation from God, but I do not believe it has anything to do with torment of suffering.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

The crux of the problem is this: Christians (mostly) think that eternal torture is a fitting punishment for the thought crime of failing to believe in their God.

Such conflicts provoke renewed inquiry into the Koran's puzzling and apparently contradictory attitudes toward Christians and Jews, the «People of the Book»: Muslims are told in the same surah («The Table»), virtually in the same breath, that Christians and Jews will attain salvation by following their own religion, but that if they deviate from true Koranic doctrine they are subject to earthly punishment and eternal damnation.

In this new world, with Satan conquered, the righteous would be taken to dwell with the King in a realm of glory, and the wicked would be consigned to eternal punishmenIn this new world, with Satan conquered, the righteous would be taken to dwell with the King in a realm of glory, and the wicked would be consigned to eternal punishmenin a realm of glory, and the wicked would be consigned to eternal punishment.

The story begins with the great assize «when the Son of man comes in his glory,» and it ends with the decisive verdict of assignment either to eternal punishment or to eternal life.

It was natural, however, that in the course of time the description of the judgment should be followed by references to eternal bliss, or eternal punishment.

This enormously transforms his perspective upon the present life, less through hope of future reward or fear of punishment than through a sense of the enhanced worthfulness of the present as preparatory to eternal life in the presence of God.

When aion is used in Matthew 25, it is to describe the eternal punishment of the «goats» separated from the «sheep.»

Jude 7: «just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after [a] strange flesh, are exhibited as an [b] example in undergoing the punishment of ETERNAL fire.»