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You are taking passages about the judgment of the ungodly and twisting them into a doctrine that Scripture never teaches! Your claim that genuinely saved people can spend eternity in outer darkness is false teaching.
Jude 12-13 describes corrupt, ungodly men as “trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots” and “wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.” Read the context! Jude is condemning ungodly deceivers, not describing a special eternal destination for redeemed children of God.
You claim that “twice dead” means these people were regenerated and then lost their spiritual life. WHERE DOES JUDE SAY THAT? He doesn't! You have inserted your own interpretation into the passage and are presenting it as God's Word.
You also claim Scripture teaches four eternal destinies. Then show us where the Bible explicitly teaches four eternal destinies, including one where people are supposedly saved but condemned to outer darkness forever. You cannot establish a doctrine simply by inventing categories and attaching Bible verses to them.
Jesus said in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
And in John 10:28, Jesus declared, “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
Explain how someone who has everlasting life, shall not come into condemnation, and shall never perish can also be condemned to eternal outer darkness! You are contradicting the very promises of Jesus Christ.
Furthermore, Jesus Himself explains the judgment of outer darkness in Matthew 25:30, and immediately afterward describes the final separation between the righteous and the wicked. Matthew 25:46 declares, “And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”
Outer darkness is not presented as some lesser eternal reward for saved people. It is a warning of judgment, not a third category between salvation and condemnation.
Yes, Scripture warns believers against deception, sin, and falling away. Those warnings must be taken seriously. But you have no authority to use those warnings to invent an eternal destiny that Scripture does not establish.
Second Timothy 2:15 commands us to “rightly dividing the word of truth.” That means allowing Scripture to speak in its proper context, not forcing passages to support a doctrine you have already decided to promote.
Episkopos, stop presenting your interpretations as though they were explicitly written in Scripture. Your doctrine of saved people spending eternity in outer darkness is not established by Jude, Matthew, or any passage you have presented.
If you claim God has revealed four eternal destinies, then prove all four from Scripture without adding your own explanations to make the verses say what they do not say.
God's Word is the authority. Your interpretations are not.
Outer darkness is not the eternal destination of saved people. It is a place of judgment for those who are rejected by Christ! Jesus said in Matthew 25:30, “And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
False teachers like you who deceive others and refuse to repent are among those facing God's judgment! Second Peter 2:1 warns of false teachers who bring upon themselves “swift destruction,” and verse 17 declares that “the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.”
@Episkopos, your teaching places you under that serious warning. You are twisting Scripture to invent an eternal destination for saved people that God never established. Unless you repent of false teaching, you have every reason to fear the judgment you are describing.
Jesus said His sheep “shall never perish” (John 10:28). Stop contradicting Him!
