I'm not sure, quietthinker. I'm certain God doesn't cast people into outer darkness
After Judgement..
Outer Darkness, Is after Judgement.
OUTER Darkness, is a Result of the Sentence being effected.
filling them with the knowledge of Him only,
What some men have Rejected (during their natural Blood Life existence) is Accepting:
Thee heavenly LORD God and Christ the Lord Jesus, God with us....
Those men shall physically die and shall be Bodily raised to hell, (VOID their blood), their living souls in hell, IMPARTED into their bodies....now their body HAS "soul" life IN their body...now they shall SEE, thee Son of man; The Lord, revealed For them TO SEE.
To note:
Men Reject, because, try CAN NOT SEE, and can not follow and believe what they can not see.
To note:
The Son of man, these men SEE, who, has come To THEM WITH Power, TO JUDGE Them.
Those men...acknowledge Him, that He IS thee Lord Jesus, and bow to Him.
(Just as the accused acknowledges when they rise/stand, when the Judge appears in the courtroom).
The Books are opened. The Books either have a mans Name IN the Books or their name does not appear in the Books.
The Books ARE documented evidence.
(Just like in a courtroom, the JUDGE considers the Evidence...to conclude The What the Sentence Shall be.)
The Judge (Son of Man, Jesus), With Power, (Christ) ...EFFECTS The Judge-ment; the Sentence;
He departs LIFE out of their soul; which IS;
Him causing, their body and soul To be in a state of "complete" Darkness, called outer darkness.
The Life that Was in that man, belonged TO GOD, and Returned To God.
Zero Life, Zero Light is left In the Vessels...
The body God created and the soul God made.
The two Vessels, "KNOW" their Consequence....they cry, they wail in sorrow and distress.......and THEN their body and soul becomes Destroyed, by Gods Fire.
Does the body and soul "disappear"?
No. Everything God has created and made;
Remains Forever. However, it does Not FOREVER "Look" the Same.
Body's and souls become burned, become ash.
Nowhere in Scripture does the Light OF GOD, the Life of God dwell IN Ash.
and there they suffer for eternity.
Where in Scripture has, does, will God impart Life from Him into a body, a soul; that has By His Power been caused TO burn to ash in His Fire?
If that is the truth, then I don't know mercy at all.
Briefly; Gods Mercy For mankind IS:
1) Comfort for the Saved.
2) Never giving a man WHO rejects Him, Eternal Life "And" eternal separation from God.
Darkness is a lack of knowledge of God
Yes.
However....men alive in their bodies, living on earth, have ACCESS and OPPORTUNITY to hear and learn, and freewill to believe or not.
Physically dead bodies, know nothing, Their living soul waits for Judgement.
but His word says He will bring all things into the light, that nothing will be hid.
Correct. WHEN?
For a Saved and Born Again man...WHEN is NOW. 24-7 THEY have ACCESS TO God to ASK anything of Him.
God Bless,
Taken