<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:21 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> It [the New Testament] makes comments in there about the final fate of the wicked unbelievers, but it doesn’t actually say anything about an immoral soul, or that the suffering of the damned is eternal. <br></blockquote>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I think the Bible is as clear as it is morally corrupt on this subject. Consider <span style="font-weight:normal"><font>Revelation 20:10</font></span><br><br><span style="display:inline" class="" id="re20-10"> " And the devil, who deceived them,<a name="1"></a> was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,<a name="2"></a> where the beast<a name="3"></a> and the false prophet<a name="4"></a> had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.</span>"<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Or Mark 3:29:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">"he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation".<span class=""><br>
</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Or this quotation from Jesus in Matthew 25:41:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>"Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Or Mark 9:43<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>"And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter
into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire
that never shall be quenched"<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> The worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched (Mark ch.9) but that’s the worm and the fire, not the damned humans.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Spike, is it your position that when the Bible refers to a "worm" it is not referring to a human of somewhat low moral character but to an invertebrate in the phylum Nematoda? If that is true then the author of the Bible really needs to take a creative writing class to improve His clarity of expression.<br>
<br></div><div> John K Clark <br></div><br><b></b><br><br><br><br><br><div><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">
<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">The notion of eternal suffering of an immortal being was invented centuries after the last word of the NT was written.<span class=""></span></span></p>
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