Daily Devotional, Year 2 – January 4 (Eternal Torment? Part 4: Impossible Idea!)

By admin On January 13th, 2021

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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – January 4

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Eternal Torment?

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Part 4:

“Impossible Idea!”

TO READ ALL ETERNAL TORMENT ARTICLES, CLICK HERE…September 8th . . . . Eternal Torment?

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“Is not this the fast that I have chosen?

to loose the bands of wickedness,

to undo the heavy burdens,

and to let the oppressed go free,

and that ye break every yoke?”

Isaiah 58:6

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Does the church-doctrine named “Eternal Torment” make any sense in the light of this above passage?

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**Quite the opposite of God making people suffer eternally, this above verse instead, tells us to “*undo the heavy burdens, and*** let the oppressed go free”!

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So then, why would God engage us for a lifetime of discipleship, trying to teach us to NOT oppress others…

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…and then turn around and lock up 90% or more of the world’s inhabitants in a fiery netherworld torture chamber, to be tormented endlessly?

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Does that make any sense!?!

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James Tissot Jesus Commanding His Apostles – Brooklyn Museum – US public domain

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BIBLE EASILY MISINTERPRETED

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The problem is that God has written the Bible in such a way that it can easily be misunderstood!

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Listen… “As also in all his (Paul’s) epistles,

speaking in them of these things;

in which are some things hard to be understood,

which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest,

as they do also the other scriptures,

unto their own destruction.”

2nd Peter 3:16

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Yes, such doctrines as “Eternal Torment” are the result of unsanctified minds presuming to become the teachers of the Bible!

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La Bible, Notre-Dame – CROPPED IMAGE – Wikimedia – Share-Alike License

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BREAKING EVERY YOKE!

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Today’s signature passage, Isaiah 58:6, reveals a God who hates to see humans oppressing one another!

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But God also says, in Isaiah 58:6, that He hates seeing humans shouldered with heavy burdens!

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And He hates to see humans suffering under heavy yokes!

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And so, considering all the Bible passages which speak of Hell as the grave, why do so many insist that God has some eternal netherworld torture chamber?

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It just doesn’t make any sense!

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It totally goes against His Character!

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The Exhortation to the Disciples – 1886-94-by James Tissot – Wikipedia – public domain.

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NOT PROPERLY BALANCING THE SCRIPTURES

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Oh yes, there is that parable of a rich man in flames of torment.

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And Revelation 14 does speak of the smoke of their torment rising up for ever and forever.

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But those allegories must be tempered with so many other passages which say things like this declaration by the suffering man, Job…

…”Why died I not from the womb?…

For now should I have lain still and been quiet,

I should have slept: then had I been at rest…”

Job 3:11, 13

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Why in the world would God allow Job to speak of death as sleep, if God instead, eternally torments all the Lost Ones?

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You simply cannot arrive at final truth using some verses while ignoring others which you don’t like!

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You cannot ignore or reject verses which don’t align with your church-doctrine!

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Brooklyn Museum – The Bad Rich Man in Hell – James Tissot – Wikipedia – Public Domain

Job (oil on canvas) by Bonnat, Leon Joseph Florentin (1833-1922) – Wikimedia – Public Domain

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“There the wicked cease from troubling”

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Listen again…

“There the wicked cease from troubling;

and there the weary be at rest.

There the prisoners rest together;

they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

The small and great are there;

and the servant is free from his master.”

Job 3:17-19

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This passage doesn’t make a stitch of sense if their souls are instead being tormented for ever and ever and ever!

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Graves at Calvary Cemetery Queens – Wikipedia – Public Domain

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SOMETIMES AN ABSURD NOTION!

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The fact is, if 90% or more of all humans who have ever lived will be eternally tormented…

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…then the Gospel would not really be very good news for the vast majority who have lived on the earth, now would it?

Yes, they tell us that we won’t even give a second thought about our lost loved ones….

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…nor a second thought for all those billions of Lost Ones who are being endlessly tortured through the ceaseless ages!

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They tell us that we will live in eternal bliss, ***“And you won’t even care* *because they’re merely getting what they deserve!”***

This above drawing of Whistler’s Mother in flames in Hell’s fires, is merely showing the absurdity of this archaic Catholic-Church-doctrine!

…”Sorry Mom”, says Whistler…

…”You’re just getting what you deserve!

You should have become a Christian!”

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Whistler’s mother in Hell – Not for public uses

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ANCIENT CHURCH DOCTRINE

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No friends, God does not have a cruel chamber of horrors in the lower regions of the earth.

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Nor is He the kind of Lord who mercilessly torments all those who reject His love…

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…”O give thanks unto the LORD;

for He is good;

for His mercy endureth forever!”

1st Chronicles 16:34

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What we need to do, is to begin looking at the Bible with an open mind, and fresh eyes…

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…just like those noble Bereans, who “received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” Acts 17:11

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US Navy – Chaplain Lt. Jason Gregory reads Bible on weather deck – Wikimedia – US Govt. Public Domain

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TO READ PART 5, CLICK HERE…

JANUARY 20 (Eternal Torment? Part 5: The Talk Show)

Announcer with microphone – svg – Wikimedia – Public-Domain

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TODAY’S PRAYER…

“Dear Lord, Help me to rightly divide Thy Word. Help me to know Thee more and more, through a good knowledge of Thy Word…

Praying Hands – Otto Greiner – Wikimedia – .bassenge.com – Cropped image – Public Domain

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THE END

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TODAY’S HEAVENLY SIGN

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EARTH: PLANET OF REST

Counting the Sun as the 1st heavenly sphere, the Earth is the 4th heavenly sphere.

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If we extend our theory (and it’s just a theory) that God created our solar system to correspond to the commandments…

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…the Sun would correspond to the 1st Commandment…

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…then Planet Earth would correspond to the 4th Commandment: the Seventh-day Sabbath.

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And so, on the very planet that corresponds to the commandment that exalts the idea of “peace” and “rest”, there exists very little peace…

Signs Of Heaven