Thread: Fires of Hell?
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Old 07-15-08, 12:47 AM
BVidlar BVidlar is offline
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Re: Fires of Hell?

I understand where you are coming from, Craig. Some like to think of God as a ‘loving God’ only. But we tend to forget that we also serve a God of justice. How do I say this this…let me say it as the apostle Paul said, “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness…” (Rom. 11: 22). In other words, if I can use this expression, God’s goodness cannot be described in human terms, neither can His severity. Or, one might say, God’s goodness is equal to His severity. Either way, we serve a God who is as good as can be in words that the human language cannot describe AND we also serve a God that’s punishments cannot be described in human language.
We have descriptive language of what hell is like such as: “Everlasting fire” (Matt. 25:41), “outer darkness” (Matt. 8:12), and “Where their worm dieth not” (Mark 9:48), etc.
But the best verse that comes to my mind of the grander and the unseen or even comprehensive understanding of what heaven will be like is: “…Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Cor. 2:9).
This tells me that God cannot describe the goodness of heaven (in man’s terms) any more than He can describe the severity (in man’s terms) of how horrible hell is. Granted, language is used to describe both…but we as humans don’t even know; nor are we capable of understanding the consequence of both realms.

PS. Welcome to the forum, you made a good point.
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