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It’s call freedom in Christ to chooseWhat verse or passage leads you to this conclusion? I don’t see that. Outer darkness will not exist after death. I see “death“ being conquered as being the last enemy of God (See: 1 Corinthians 15:26). Outer darkness would be a place of punishment for unfaithful believers (Who are enemies of God). Death will happen to those who are finally cast into the Lake of Fire. But the same ending fate for all who are unfaithful to God is the same.
Believers who are not even looking for their LORD will be cut asunder and appointed with the unbelievers.
Luke 12:46
The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
This is why Post Trib and Preterism does not make any sense to me. They are not looking for their LORD.
So seeing they are not looking for their LORD, they will have their portion with the unbelievers in being left behind on this Earth (while the saints have been ”Caught Up” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).
Granted, we do look through a glass darkly.
1 Corinthians 13:12
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
But I think God has given us what we needed to know and we should trust on what limited knowledge (According to His Word) He has deemed acceptable for us to have. So I will trust in His Word in what it says plainly. However, many today make assumptions that goes beyond the text (of which I see happening among many today). They will say that outer darkness is hell or the Lake of Fire when the Bible does not teach such a thing. There is no verse or passage that makes that connection. I also must ask you why you think “outer darkness” exists after “death.” What verse or passage leads you to that conclusion? I did not see any Bible citation for that statement.
In either case, may God bless you (even if we do not agree on this topic fully).
If we believe something, there should be Scriptural backing for that belief.It’s call freedom in Christ to choose
Between you and God decide would be the right thing is.
The Bible is not written in precise chronological order.Just read the last chapter of revelation.
Seems like murderer roam outside the city gates of heaven.
Actually, Conditional Immortality is not the dominant view in Christianity. ECT is the dominant view in Christinaity today.Most say everyone is obliterated.
But for God to actually get his will he needs to have everyone in their right place.
Thus just like hell which was the realm of the dead before being done away with.
The kingdom of God has an inside and an outside.
I don’t think you are a judge anyway. I don’t think you have spiritual authority over a Bible.If we believe something, there should be Scriptural backing for that belief.
The Bible is not written in precise chronological order.
Revelation 22 is a general ending of things and it is not a strict chronological timeline from verse 1 to 21.
Revelation 22:14-15 is only giving us a snapshot towards the end and it is not saying that the wicked will not be annihilated.
Isaiah 66:24 makes it clear that the wicked will end up as carcasses or corpses. It is the aftermath of their destruction.
Revelation 22:1-4 gives a description of the New Earth, but Jesus says that He comes quickly in Revelation 22:12 (Which would be the present time for the writing of Revelation).
Yet, we flap back to the future in Revelation 22:14-15. Meaning, we cannot assume that there is nothing more that will happen after Revelation 22:14-15. In fact, as I said before, Isaiah 66:24 completes the picture (Well, check out Isaiah 66:22-24).
Side Note on Revelation 22:12: I imagine if those who read the Bible with wooden literalism today involving words like “for ever” had lived back in the time of the early church and read Revelation 22:12, they would assume that Jesus is coming quickly in the sense that He must be coming right away in their time. But now we see in retrospect that the word “quickly” is relative from God’s perspective and not our perspective.
Actually, Conditional Immortality is not the dominant view in Christianity. ECT is the dominant view in Christinaity today.
Need Scripture to help elaborate more on what your saying here.
I do realize that there is an outer court and an inner court in the OT Jewish temples.
Without an origin story it's just your imagination in overload. Consider your opening sentence and try to find a text to support it...To all:
Hell is a place created for the devil and his angels
Matthew 25:41Without an origin story it's just your imagination in overload. Consider your opening sentence and try to find a text to support it...
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You understand what I mean by origin story?Matthew 25:41
”Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:”
In this passage below we see a connection between everlasting fire (verse 8) and hell fire (verse 9).
Matthew 18:8-9
8 “Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut themoff, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands ortwo feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it fromthee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye,rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.”
Obviously hell fire comes from hell.
The word “hell” in Matthew 18:9 is the Greek word Gehenna. This is the Lake of Fire.
Everlasting fire in Matthew 25:41 is speaking about the Lake of Fire.