Let
me just come out there and say it: There is no hell that has been prepared for
"sinners." Dante was wrong.
Now
don't jump to conclusions. That doesn't mean that there isn't something
hellish; there is. The Bible doesn't talk much about it, and I can understand:
it's an ugly subject.
Jesus
taught about "everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his
angels." Maybe this is the "lake of fire" of Revelation 20. Sure
sounds like it.
But
did you see who it's prepared for? It's prepared for the devil and the rest of
the angels that followed the angel named Lucifer when he was tossed on his ear
out of Heaven.
It's a topic that the Bible never answers very clearly (for all
that there are a lot of Bible thumpers that seem to have all the answers!), so
I can't speak clearly about it except this: it isn't prepared for people.
I
guess there are some people who are so completely committed to the things of
demons (often called "sin"), that they refuse to be separated from
them. I guess that when the devil and his angels are chucked into that
"everlasting fire" that the people that refuse to let them go...
well, ... they go with them.
(I
understand that this is not consistent with what you and I were taught in Sunday
School. The truth is that a lot of what we were taught in Sunday School can't
be supported by the Book. Let's stick to the book.)
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