Is Hell really eternal burning?

[Guest LDStudent]

Perhaps he wants to reserve eternal torment for satan and his minions while putting the lost out of their misery by obliterating them.

The scriptures seem to speak otherwise.

Hell is a place of eternal torment for all who die apart from God, through Christ.

In Christ,

Eric

Ever since understanding the fullness of the everlasting Gospel, I fail to grasp how I could once sleep at night believing that. I think God is just; He will reward unbelievers according to the intentions of their heart. Do you deny there are good people outside of Christ?

[ayin jade]

There is no one good except for Christ.

[Guest LDStudent]

There is no one good except for Christ.

What about the Father and the Holy Ghost? Are you a Oneness?

There is no one perfect except Christ, but there are people who choose to commit good, not for selfish reasons, but out of genuine love for others. How can you deny this truth? John 5:28-29 [28] Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, [29] And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

[ayin jade]

Do you deny there are good people outside of Christ?

There is no one good except for Christ.

What about the Father and the Holy Ghost? Are you a Oneness?

If it werent so tragic, I would be laughing at this statement.

I am not now, nor have I ever been a Oneness believer.

You mentioned people. There is a verse about how the only sinless person is Jesus. That is how I responded. I believe in the Trinity, God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit. My beliefs are fully in line with the statement of faith of this ministry.

[apothanein kerdos]

Unfortunately Christians have adopted the eastern belief of "karma" and incorporated it into their Christian beliefs. "If I do something wrong, God will punish me for the equal ammount." "If I am good, God will bless me." "If I'm good enough, if people are good enough, then there is no way God can justifiably send them to hell." The thing is, no, there isn't anyone "good enough." THe Bible even says we cannot please Him without working within faith (Hebrews 11:6, Romans 1:17). If we do a "good work" outside of faith, while it might bring about good rewards on this earth, it is still done in rebellion. If a man rapes and murders a person and is sent to prison, they don't exactly let him out on good behavoir. God is the same way. If people have lived in rebellion to Him by rejecting Him and trying to be "good" without having faith, they too must undergo the judgement of God. Those who do good don't always have good things happen to them. Those who do bad don't always get what they deserve (in this life). His justice is different than ours (ours is action-reaction, karma) whereas His is action-delayed reaction-appropiate.

[Remnantrob]

Here's an interesting debate on mp3 about this topic.

I listened to a great debate a few months ago Hosted by TheologyWeb and AFC Ministries with the proposition: "That the Bible teaches annihilationism"

It was a great debate and Theonomy (Glen) did a wonderful job against his opponent Kelly Powers of AFC Ministries.

If you are interested the debate is in MP3 format and can be downloaded here, the file sizes are 13.5 MB for the main debate which is here

and the Q&A is 5 MB and is here

I encourage all to listen to it, Theonomy is more logical in his presentation and Kelly tends to what to appeal to emotion that scriptures.