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According to Psalms 139:15, Matthew 23:15, and Jonah 2:2 everyone will
eventually make it to safety when they pass on.
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Correct.Not if they dont come to JESUS they wont . And i mean the biblical one .
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According to Psalms 139:15, Matthew 23:15, and Jonah 2:2 everyone will
eventually make it to safety when they pass on.
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They will devin . We will stick with the simple gosple . the good news . IF ye confess JESUS , amen .I'm not seeing what you're seeing, can you explain your position more that everyone will make it to safety? I was under the impression that some would be destroyed in the lake of fire.
This universalism you speak of , SPOT ON RIGHT SISTER .If you believe in Universalism, those texts do not support that false theory.
Let us remember these words as well .
Many will say unto me , BUT LORD didnt we do good works IN your name and in your name even cast out demons
and HE will say DEPART FROM ME ye who worked inquity . I never knew you .
Not everyone is gonna be saved . Few they be . means few they be .
I'm not seeing what you're seeing, can you explain your position more that everyone will make it to safety? I was under the impression that some would be destroyed in the lake of fire.
Universalists are actually the closest to unravelling the Mystery.If you believe in Universalism, those texts do not support that false theory.
Our God is a God of Second Chances.
Universalists are actually the closest to unravelling the Mystery.
They understand enough to know that the Lake of Fire is not the 'end of the line' so to speak. They have correctly deduced that there is a type of 'refining process' that takes place.
Unfortunately, they haven't connected enough of the dots to understand how said refining process works. Consequently, their Doctrine misses the Mark.
There is a Cycle that is implied in Scripture that most do not see. Not everyone makes it the first go around...Let us remember these words as well .
Many will say unto me , BUT LORD didnt we do good works IN your name and in your name even cast out demons
and HE will say DEPART FROM ME ye who worked inquity . I never knew you .
Not everyone is gonna be saved . Few they be . means few they be .
This is simply your opinion based on what you were told, and not what the Bible teaches.There is no second chance after death.
Hi Devin. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
Let's begin with this verse...
Psalms 139:15
"My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth."
Since I take the above verse literally, as I believe everyone should, then what the Word of God is teaching us here is that the Lowest Parts of the Earth is where you, I, and all babies come from.
In other words, Hell is a parable for the place in which we all were born out of.
Jesus confirms this...
Matthew 23:15
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves."
Again, this is literal. 'Child of Hell' means exactly that. Hell is a place where babies are born out of.
Hell, or in the original Greek, 'Gehenna' is of course the Old Testament Valley of the Son of Hinnom...
Jeremiah 32:35
"And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin."
Gehenna is where the concept of the Lake of Fire comes from. Notice that the Children *PASS THROUGH* the fire? This is teaching us that those tossed into the Lake of Fire actually pass through it. They do not 'burn forever' or become 'annihilated'. There is another destination waiting for them.
This brings us to...
Jonah 2:2
"And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice."
Again, we see that the Belly is associated with Hell. The Whale is a picture of the Lowest Parts of the Earth. We know from Matthew 23:15 that the Lowest Parts of the Earth... aka... Hell, is where babies come from. Therefore, the Whale is a picture of pregnancy. Jonah is the Seed inside. Note that Moloch and the Whale share a similar theme.
Long story short, Jonah is a picture of One who is thrown into the Lake of Fire and eventually vomited, or birthed, into this world. Jonah gets a 'Second Chance'...
Our God is a God of Second Chances.
This is simply your opinion based on what you were told, and not what the Bible teaches.
I see you haven't bothered to address the verses in the OP. The fact that you ignored them is very telling.
Psalms 139:15
"My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth."
Since I take the above verse literally, as I believe everyone should, then what the Word of God is teaching us here is that the Lowest Parts of the Earth is where you, I, and all babies come from.
Check this out...I interpret it slightly different as I believe that the baptism of fire is literal fire from the inner parts of the earth.