Lamentations 3:31-33 – “For the Lord will not cast off forever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.”
Psalm 103:8-10 – “The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.”
Micah 7:18 – “Who is a God like You, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? You do not remain angry forever, but delights in showing mercy.” (A merciful God – by definition – would not torture eternally. These are opposite concepts.)
Acts 17:30 – “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.”
Romans 5:8 – “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 10:13 – “For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
1 Corinthians 15:22 – “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”
1 John 4:8 – “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
1 John 4:16 – “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”
God wants everyone to come to repentance before Judgment and Death
2 Peter 3:9 – “The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.”
Ezekiel 18:23 – “Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, do I not delight when they turn from their ways and live?”
Ezekiel 18:32 – “For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!”
Ezekiel 33:11 – “Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’”
Isaiah 45:22 – “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”
Matthew 18:12-14 – “What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go to look for the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not go astray. In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones should PERISH.”
John 3:17 – “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.”
John 5:40 – “Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.”
1 Timothy 2:3-4 – “This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
1 Timothy 4:10 – “For we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.”
The soul can die
Ezekiel 18:4 – “For all are mine, both fathers and children; both alike are mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.”
Ezekiel 18:20 – “The soul that sins shall die…”
James 5:20 – “But know this, that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering way will save his soul from DEATH and will hide a multitude of sins.”
Acts 3:23 – “And it shall come to pass, that every soul that will not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.”
JESUS says that the ‘soul’ can die and that sinners DIED.
Matthew 10:28 – “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, be afraid of the one who can DESTROY both soul and body IN HELL.”
John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
(In fact, Jesus’ soul DIED when He was sacrificed for us: Isaiah 53:12 – “Therefore I will give Him a portion among the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors.”)
Luke 13:3 – “I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you will all also perish.”
Luke 13:5 – “I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you will all also perish.”
Only Christians will “never perish”: John 10:28 – “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one shall snatch them out of my hand.”
The chaff does not “burn forever”: Jesus says, Matthew 3:12 – “His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor, gathering His wheat into the barn, and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
The wages of sin is DEATH, not ‘eternal torture’
Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
1 John 5:12 – “He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
Only Jesus is the way to life. Matthew 7:13-14 – “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and difficult is the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Psalm 92:7 – “Though the wicked spring up like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be DESTROYED FOREVER.”
God will restore the universe to its pre-sin state
Acts 3:21 – “He must be received into heaven until the time comes for God to restore all things.”
Hebrews 12:29 – “Our God is a consuming fire.”
2 Peter 3:13 – “But according to his promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”
Romans 8:19-21 – “For the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the children of God. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.”
Revelation 21:5 – “Behold, I make all things new.”
Sin has as its final consequence permanent death
2 Thessalonians 1:9 – “They will be punished with everlasting DESTRUCTION and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power.”
Hebrews 10:27 – “But only an experimental expectation of judgment and of fierce fire which will consume the enemies of God.” (consume, that is, destroy)
Proverbs 10:25 – “When the storm passes, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.”
Proverbs 21:16 – “A man who strays from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.”
James 5:20 – “Remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and will hide a multitude of sins.”
But only those in Christ will LIVE
1 Corinthians 15:22 – “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.”
Sodom and Gomorrah had an ‘eternal’ FINAL destruction.
Jude 1:7 – “In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities gave themselves over to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example to those who are being protected from eternal fire.” The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are no longer burning, but their annihilation has been completed for eternity.
Sodom was destroyed, and the people were not tortured forever: Luke 17:28-29 – “It was the same in the days of Lot: people were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But on the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and burning from heaven and destroyed them all.”
The permanent destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is a prototype for God’s Final Judgment
2 Peter 2:6 – “If he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what will happen to the ungodly,”
All sinners will bow before God (before his final vengeance, showing that justice is universally served and God is glorified)
Philippians 2:10-11 – “Every knee will bow…and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.”
Psalm 22:29 – “All who go down to the DUST will bow before him—those who cannot stay alive.” (people in the fire cannot “stay alive”)
Romans 14:10-11 – “For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. It is written: ‘As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me; every tongue will confess to God.’”
Hell is TOTAL destruction with ‘nothing left’
Psalm 37:20 – “But the wicked shall perish: though the enemies of the Lord be as the flowers of the field, they shall be consumed, they shall go up into the air.”
Malachi 4:1-3 – “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and all the evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty. Not a root or a branch will be left of them.”
Obadiah 1:16 – “They will be as though they never existed.” —> total destruction, as though they never existed.
All sinners will be sought out and destroyed
Matthew 13:41-43 – “The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.”
Matthew 25:46 – “Then they will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.” Unrepentant sinners will not have “everlasting life” in an eternal hell.
God will destroy death FOREVER
Isaiah 25:8 – “He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces.”
Isaiah 65:17 – “Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered or come to mind.”
1 Corinthians 15:24-26 – “Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all rule, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.”
Only the resurrected body can live forever
1 Corinthians 15:50 – “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.” (This is another way of saying that sinners will not live forever in torture.)
The second death will destroy everything
Revelation 2:11 – “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.”
Revelation 20:6 – “Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him a thousand years.”
Revelation 20:14-15 – “Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.”
There cannot be eternal torment in the universe because the Bible says this:
Revelation 21:4 – “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:8 – “But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and the vile, and murderers, and sexually immoral, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall be cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone: this is the second death.”
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