1º(B.A. Bible/Biology)*
UNQUENCHABLE FIRE WON’T BURN ETERNALLY (Please read the whole article)
Although I am a conservative Christian (Reformed Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches or supports the traditional view of hell with its doctrine of eternal torment or suffering.
The Bible does teach eternal punishment, but that eternal punishment is not eternal suffering.
God’s righteous wrath is not an end in itself but a means to an end, that end being the eternal destruction of the wicked. That’s why the Bible teaches in Romans 9:22 that the wicked are “vessels of wrath (the means) fitted for destruction (the end).
The Old Testament says, in Jeremiah 17:27, that when God comes in judgment upon Israel the gates and palaces of Jerusalem will burn and the fire will “not be quenched.” Ezekiel 20:47 says every green tree and dry tree will burn and the fire will “not be quenched.” Are any of these things still burning? Of course not! Then, why does God say that the fire will “not be quenched?”
When Scripture talks about unquenchable fire, what it means is that the process of destruction is unstoppable. The Bible records judgments of God where His wrath was quenched (or stopped) such as in the case when Moses interceded and pleaded before God for the rebellious Israelites in the desert. God in His wrath sent a plague to kill the rebellious Israelites. Moses came between the dead and the living (Numbers 16:48). When Moses did this, God quenched His wrath. “Unquenchable fire,” then, simply means that God won’t stop (or quench) His wrath until it’s finished its job of total destruction.
Won’t the wicked suffer forever in hell? The word “forever,” in Scripture, doesn’t always mean eternity. For example, in Exodus 21:6 (KJV) we read that certain people volunteered to be servants “forever.” Obviously this cannot mean eternity. The word “forever” (or “everlasting”), in Scripture, simply means the entire duration of something. If that something is immortal then the word “forever” must mean eternity. But, if that something is mortal then the word “forever” cannot mean eternity. The Bible teaches that only the righteous in Christ will inherit immortality. Those in hell won’t be immortal so their suffering cannot be eternal.
When the Bible talks about eternal punishment, eternal judgment, eternal damnation, eternal destruction, or even eternal redemption, it is in reference to the result, not the process! It is not the destroying that’s eternal, but the destruction! When the Bible talks about eternal judgment, it is not the “judging” that’s eternal but the judgment. When the Bible talks about eternal redemption, it is not the “redeeming” that is eternal but the redemption.
What about “eternal fire” in the Bible? Scripture says in Jude 7 that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by eternal fire. These cities are no longer burning still. How can the fire be called “eternal” then? Because the result that the fire produced is eternal — these cities will never exist again.
Most Christians believe (wrongly) that God was referring to spiritual death when He told Adam and Eve they would die upon eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. They think this because God told Adam and Eve they would die the very day they ate it, but because Adam and Eve didn’t physically die the very day they ate the forbidden fruit, most Christians assume that God was referring to spiritual death and not physical death.
However, in the original Hebrew of the Old Testament, the word for “die” in Genesis 2:17 is in the imperfect mood. The imperfect mood denotes a process. So, what God really told Adam and Eve is that they would start dying. God wasn’t referring to spiritual death but to physical death. After their disobedience, God later prevented Adam and Eve from having access to the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:22–24) so that they would not live eternally. This is proof that God was referring to physical death in Genesis 2:17.
All this proves that God will not allow sinful humans to be immortal. God will not let sin exist eternally by keeping sinners alive eternally in hell. God will bring an eternal end to sin and sinner in hell. That is His eternal justice, not eternal torment! God is just, but not cruel.
Immortality is not a birthright. Just because man is created in God’s image doesn’t mean man must possess everything God possesses. Immortality is a gift from God available only through Jesus Christ, God’s eternal and only begotten Son, Who paid for our sins through His death and His shed blood on the Cross and Who rose bodily from the grave. Scripture says, Jesus Christ “hath destroyed death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1:10).
ETERNAL LIFE in Scripture has the same meaning as immortality (i.e. Romans 2:7) which Christians will possess only in the future on Resurrection Day. Romans 2:7 and various other Scripture passages teach immortality and eternal life to be a future possession for Christians. Why then did Jesus use the present tense when saying those who believe in Him have eternal life, and are passed from death unto life? The answer is that sometimes in the Bible the present tense is used to describe future events for the purpose of demonstrating their certainty. Scripture says God "calleth those things which be not as though they were" (Romans 4:17). Again, eternal life means to live eternally and not die, which is what immortality is.
The Bible says Jesus Christ "hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" (2 Timothy 1:10). The opposite of eternal life (or immortality) is eternal death (the eternal literal death of soul and body) - not eternally living in torment and suffering! "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23). "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting (eternal) life" (John 3:16). The issue is not what we think eternal punishment ought to be. The issues are God's character, God's definition of ultimate justice, and God's eternal purposes.
This view is known as “conditional immortality” because God only gives immortality to those meet the condition of having faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
How did the belief and teaching of eternal torment enter into Christianity? When the early Church adopted the belief, from Greek philosophy, that the human soul is immortal (indestructible), then it became only logical to believe that those who go to hell must suffer eternally.
The wicked in hell will suffer, in varying degrees, for their individual sins, but the ultimate penalty for sin itself will be the eternal death of their soul and body and their eternal loss to immortality. That is their eternal punishment — their eternal loss to immortality. God’s wrath is not an end in itself but a means to an end, that end being eternal destruction.
What I am sharing is not new. Good Christian men, across denominations, over the centuries held to the view I am espousing, including the great Christian hymn writer Isaac Watts, author of “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross.”
You will find Biblical answers to more questions on this subject (including aspects concerning Jesus' account of the Rich Man and Lazarus that 99.9% of all Christians are totally ignorant about) by reading the author’s larger Internet article: TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS
Read the author's popular Internet article, THE NATURAL LIMITS OF EVOLUTION in Medium dot com.
*The author, Babu G. Ranganathan, has his bachelor's degree with concentrations in Bible and Biology and has been recognized for his writings on religion and science in the 24th edition of Marquis "Who's Who In The East."
2ºUpdate of the day - Saturday the 10th of March 2024
Recap of past 24 hours =>
- [ ] Argument over by boy with the Koni mother and she still Denys any knowledge of the body device for my boy and he is being abused from the moment I wake up daily until minimum 9/10pm.
- [ ] Been preached all day long a war against the Amazons and Pakistan as allies of Belgium and Congo (hand written draft on the name of English Kingdom dropped from the window - hope it had reached the kingdom by now - no official post possibility…) = Cold War you call it?!
Update of the day based on above =
- [ ] Confirming the United Kingdom the legal ownership of Canada and Australia with the story recapped shortly herewith => It was Belgium +? “? = Japan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Russia and the Amazons Tribes leading family - one or more of listed allied with Belgium who invented the first machine gun and Atomic Bomb gun in early 1700/1900 and killed the natives of United States, Canada and Australia emptying the land from its own population and the English Royal family was the family forced to accept the ownership of the lands on its name to the public and Belgium + Allies from listed above benefiting the natural resources/mines of the lands without being the face to the public = Toyota and other Japanese businesses referred for FBI/Interpol check for their business activities of past 200 years are examples drafted throughout the correspondence +++…=> the English Royal family had no hands in genocide of nations and not the inventor of the machine gun/Atomic and has been taking care of and building the lands over the past 200 years and turned the Las Vegas into the luxury city for the donkeys of the world living in it and acting and living rich of today = Total legal ownership is confirmed for the family and the division/distribution is only valid upon my safe arrival to England as return destination! The involvement of the Amazons Tribes leading families is possible in 2 ways =>
- [ ] A) the natives were the victims killed.
- [ ] B) the leading families hand direct hand in selling the land and its population to Belgium/? and took the rainforests as their home/garden for living and shall be benefiting from the buildup United States as shadow without being on surface/public face whilst living in largest living space of + 7 million square kilometers of pure garden for luxury = partners in crime with Belgium/?.
With above as final draft concerning USA/Canada/Australia = with Belgium and Congo as confirmed Terrorist States/families held responsible for the genocide of the nations and now my hostage keeping going on and abuse of my boy daily - below are the list of suspected Allies recapped last time and passed to the United Nations for final decision making based on facts of the day on who else is, as of the day, and was in 1700 the ally of Belgium/Congo for the crimes recapped =
- [ ] Russia, Japan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt = any of the listed still with no peace agreement signed and submitted to the United Nations prior to this update is/are - charged individually with total due bills (updated HRH for genocide of my dick over Queen Letitia of Spain last night + updated reputation damage bills for all) as per today’s fine amount fixed, and charged with the recapped crimes of 1700-2024 recapped = Immediate elimination of the leading families/government officials listed is confirmed per latest individual notes concerning each listed country = No due court towards the allied forces for Amy damages and casualties and alternative peace plans are confirmed valid per latest notes concerning each listed.
- [ ] With Nooristany and Ahmad Shah Masoud as prime confirmed Terrorist families “all listed names from Panjshir and Nooristan” and each charged individually “each listed name individually” with total due bills and my hostage keeping going on => any other Afghan with no peace agreement prior to this update is confirmed a Terrorist mordagaw and charged individually = immediate elimination is confirmed with no due court = the latest list of names with amended financial packages/marriage recaps the list of active and highest profiles presented = all is included and accounted equally and elimination is confirmed in case of no agreement signed = official spies and terrorists confirmed for elimination!
Conclusion = add the “?” the list next to Belgium and Congo and attack the terrorist state/family with no due court.
Note of the moment = the koni mother is taking sun and eating her brunch of 11:30 am after + 12 hours of sleeping and the boy is playing drums behind my door while typing and the donkeys on my iPhone “you :)” listening live = the body device active as I type and work and the Konzada Yalda Koonistany eating like my dog and letting the boy being used again = The mother is confirmed mentally sick and a child abuser next to being a confirmed terrorist with direct hand in my hostage keeping going on!
Best,
Fardeen Majidi
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3ºSEXUAL BEHAVIORS AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH WORDS ONLY SHOULD BE A CRIME IN ALL 50 STATES. THIS WOULD HAVE HELPED HAVE MY "KAREN NEIGHBORS, RACIST WHITE KRISTA GRIFFIN AND HER MIXED WITH MEXICAN, DESPERATE TO PASS WITH RACIST WHITE AMERICA, AND SEXUALLY PREDATORY OFFSPRING" GET ARRESTED, ASSUMING A NON-RACIST COP RESPONDED TO THE CALL. THE CHARGES SHOULD INCLUDE SEXUALLY ANNOYING BEHAVIORS AND COMMUNICATIONS BY A WOMAN AGAINST ANOTHER WOMAN IRRESPECTIVE OF HOMOSEXUALITY. WORDS INTENDED TO SEXUALIZE A PERSON THROUGH ONGOING ANNOYING BEHAVIORS, COMMUNICATIONS OR INSINUATIONS OF RACIAL UNFITNESS WITH MY EX, A WHITE MAN. THIS WOULD HAVE CRIMINALIZED THE UNWANTED SEXUAL BEHAVIORS AND COMMUNICATIONS BY KRISTA GRIFFIN AND HER SON FRANK JUAREZ. THESE BEHAVIORS TRIGGERED CALLS FOR HELP TO THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH AT THIS POINT DO NOT SEEM TO BE A CRIME, BUT IT IS COMMON SENSE THAT IT SHOULD BE. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH A NEIGHBOR THAT UTILIZES INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIORS AND INSINUATIONS TO MAKE A PERSON UNCOMFORTABLE WALKING IN AND OUT OF THEIR HOME OR IN THEIR HOME BY YELLING OBSCENITIES FROM THEIR HOME OR MAKING OBSCENE GESTURES. NO, I AM NOT ADVOCATING FOR GREATER PROTECTIONS FOR WOMEN TO THEN BE EXCLUDED AS A NON-WHITE WOMAN OR PART OF A VIOLENT LARGE POPULACE FROM THESE PROTECTIONS NOR DO I APPRECIATE HAVING THE EXPERIENCE TO CREATE GREATER PROTECTIONS FOR OTHER WOMEN. LAWS THAT MAKE AMERICA GREAT, BUT ARE NOT APPLIED TO ME BASED ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION, AND THE EXCLUSION OF THE 2 AFOREMENTIONED GROUPS: WHITE WOMEN AND LARGE VIOLENT DEMOGRAPHICS.