Is Hell a place of torment?

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So @Big Boy Johnson, what scriptural evidence do you have to support your the above comment?
May I ask what part of his comment you disagree with?

First of all, there are three different underlying Greek works that are translated into English as "hell" in the KJV Bible. Do you believe that any of them describe a place of torment? If so, then do you believe that they describe a place of everlasting torment or just temporary torment? If it is just temporary torment, then what is the duration or length of that torment? Do you believe in annihilation or that the wicked will cease to exist at some point in time? Please provide scriptural reasons for your own beliefs. Thank you.
 

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May I ask what part of his comment you disagree with?

First of all, there are three different underlying Greek works that are translated into English as "hell" in the KJV Bible. Do you believe that any of them describe a place of torment? If so, then do you believe that they describe a place of everlasting torment or just temporary torment? If it is just temporary torment, then what is the duration or length of that torment? Do you believe in annihilation or that the wicked will cease to exist at some point in time? Please provide scriptural reasons for your own beliefs. Thank you.
I don't believe ANYONE is literally torment
 

Big Boy Johnson

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So @Big Boy Johnson, what scriptural evidence do you have to support your the above comment?

Jesus says those that go to hell will burn in fire that shall NOT be quenched into everlasting punishment

Mark 9:43-44
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Matthew 25:46
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

2 Thessalonians 1:9
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;


Texts like Jude 6, Matthew 8:12, Matthew 22:13, and Matthew 25:30, and 2 Thessalonians 1:9 show that darkness signifies a state of deprivation and distress, not of destruction in the sense of ceasing to exist. Only those who exist can weep and gnash their teeth, as those banished into the darkness are said to do. Luke 16:22–24 shows that fire signifies continued existence in pain as Revelation 14:10 with 19:20 and 20:10, and Matthew 13:42, 50, confirm this.

Another good case against annihilationism is ”And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever” in Rev. 14:11.

Those not accepting all of what the Lord says in His Word are easily deceived by satan's chicanery and subterfuge
 

Big Boy Johnson

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I don't believe ANYONE is literally torment

This is a lie the devil has tricked those ignorant of God's Word in to spreading as it causes those out in the world to quit considering getting saved because that think they will cease to exist (false doctrine of annihilationism) as the false teachers claiming to be Christian espouse.