If this statement confirms that souls and spirits are imperishable, then that is true
I agreed with you up to this statement. To perish means to die in your sins, also implies destruction.
2 Peter 3:9. If God desires that none should perish but judges that they will, that means lost soul with perish/ die in their sins.
So you need to really define what spiritual death is aside from separation from God.
God shows us what physical death is, the end of our physical existence. Why wouldn't His definition of spiritual death mean just that, the end of the individual?
There is a fair bit of confusion here.
1. Hades is "in the heart of the earth" which means within the core of the earth -- deep down
Right, the underworld- at least beneath the surface and/or crust of the earth. A prison in dark caves where the immaterial soul experiences darkness, loneliness, torment emotional and with acute conscious awareness (as if his physical self were there).
The Lake of Fire is in "outer darkness" -- outside time and space.
Darkness is symbolic for evil. People live in darkness until Christ sheds the Light. So in darkness the gnashing of teeth is angry cussing, gritting their teeth. Job 10:21-22 describes Sheol as the land of darkness, gloom and deep shadow.
The supernatural fire which destroys the surface of the earth and all things therein has no connection to either of these region.
Are you refering to the final event of 2 Peter 3:10? This is real fire, physical flames and I do believe that Hell is more of an event on earth or just inside where people are actually thrown into the pit, try to escape and cannot. A lave lake comes to mind. The Abyss is opened and the ground splits as it did historically and people are literally burned alive as was Sodom and Gomorah. At this time if you were in space looking at earth, it will look like a lake of fire.
When the Bible says that Death and Hades (personified) are cast into the Lake of Fire, that needs to be properly interpreted. It simply means that death and Hades are terminated
I don't think there is personification here. Death is eliminated, it will not exist and those in Hades will not, they will be destroyed.
At the Great White Throne, all those who were in Hades will be resurrected and judged, then cast into the Lake of Fire in order to experience "the Second Death". This is eternal torment in the Lake of Fire.
Well I say age-lasting torment. A piece of paper burns in seconds, other objects take minutes, a physical human body - minutes.
What do you think these resurrected bodies are eternally flame resistant so that they endure with mild 1st first degree burns?
There are several naysayers on this forum who believe in the false doctrine of Annihilationism. But if it were true, there would be no need for the Gospel. All sinners would be simply extinguished -- cease to exist
I don't believe in eternal Hell, I believe in a temporal earth, heavens, death, Hades, the ungodly and Lake of Fire. They will all pass away. They are finite. An err in translation. Actually I remember reading that Luther had a problem with eternal Hell but was warned not to go there by Calvin, said it was too much.
*If Hell is not eternal, then fair justice is reasonable and the end of their being is merciful. Perfect justice for the wicked exists only in a temporal, finite realm. Inheritance of our salvation exists in a perfect eternal realm.
Opps, I said I wasn't going to push the envelope. Enoch, you made me do it!
"Being born aganin, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 1 Peter 1:23
The imperishable seed is spiritual. The body dies but the spirit lives by grace through our faith in Christ. We look forward to a new body like His when He returns for judgment. At the resurrection, only the Christians get to put on the imperishable, immortal bodies. Immortality is life in christ. We are raised a spiritual body. Unbelievers do not recive these spiritual bodies, they are given their old perishable bodies back to be thrown into the Lake of Fire. (see 1 Corinthians 15:51-54; Romans 2:7)
