Sentences with phrase «gnashing worms»
How dare Jesus, or anyone, speak to us in terms of amputations, gnashing worms and unquenchable tires!
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But if you are wrong, you'll spend eternity in hell... where the worm never dies and where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
In other words, He said, stop sinning, or you will go where the worms do not die and the fire is not quenched, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
He describes the fate of the damned under a great variety of metaphors: everlasting fire, outer darkness, tormenting thirst, a gnawing worm, and weeping and gnashing of teeth.
When Jesus, therefore, pictured the finale of the universe in terms of the contemporary mythology, with fire, worms, wailing, and gnashing of teeth for sinners, and bliss for the righteous, he was using an old form of imagination.