Consider Matthew 25 where Jesus says the Son of Man will separate the evil from the just and the evil ``... will go away
into eternal punishment...»
So that part about «and these shall go away
into eternal punishment,» is that literal?
46These will go away
into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.»
Not exact matches
It wasn't until much later that «sheol» (or «Hades») got transformed
into «hell» with fire, brimstone and
eternal punishment for only the «goats»
Christianity has lost — more, I think, for better than for worse — its primal negative sanction: it can not, outside of Fundamentalist circles, scare people
into faith by threats of
eternal punishment.
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.
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.
He claimed that the Pharisees held that «Every soul is incorruptible, but only the souls of good men pass
into other bodies, the souls of bad men being subjected to
eternal punishment.»
46 And these shall go away
into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous
into life
eternal
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.
Jesus alone made it possible for me to have
eternal life because He alone is righteous, and He alone took the full
punishment for my sins so that I could enter
into God's presence.
The benefits are: God's mercy is communicated in a tangible way; Reconciliation with God; Personal encounter with Christ; Divine life is restored in our soul; Grace is given; Confession reminds us of the price of sin; The profits of penance; Remission of
eternal punishment; Temporal
punishment can be diminished; Merit and virtue restored; Makes our prayers and works more efficacious; We benefit from the priest's prayers and penance; More fruitful participation in other sacraments; Sacrament of healing; Strengthens our faith; Cultivates hope; Increases charity; Fosters growth in humility and in self - knowledge; Helps to form our conscience; Brings psychological benefits; Prevents us from falling
into more serious sins; Improves our prayer life; Source of spiritual direction; Helps us becomesaints.
The goats go
into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous
into eternal life.
And these will go away
into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous
into eternal life.
«If you take all the characteristics and behaviors of your God, all the slaughters and the
punishments and the weird stuff he did to Job and the whole
eternal concentration camp thing, if you put all of those characteristics
into a human, the person who your God most closely fits is Joseph Stalin!
My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color
into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's
eternal city, letting in a flood of half - starved, half - crazed troops bent on pillage and
punishment.
Through faith in Christ for remission of our sins and with the gift of the Holy Spirit, we are transformed
into the image of God on this earth so that we might also be partakers of the divine nature and
eternal life, thereby escaping the
eternal punishment of the second death.