The beast, false prophet, and the devil, all fallen angels, are the only three beings in scripture that are said to await being tormented day and night forever. The Lake of fire was created for the devil and his angels.afaithfulone4u said:Correct!
Rev 20:10
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
KJV
Rev 20:14-21:1
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
KJV
Eternal lake of fire meaning Hot Water with God for He remembers them NO MORE and they will be for eternity outside of God's presence and chained in eternal darkness(evil continually) NO REST!
But there they those who confuse this place with Hades. The torment that humans experience happens in Hades, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. This will last a minimum of 1000 years. In the first death, as Jesus described in Math.10:28, the body dies but not the soul. However, there is another death called the second death. In Math.10:28, the word for hell is not Hades, but Gehenna, which refers to the Lake of fire. In this next death, both body and soul are destroyed, as He states. In fact in this verse, He relates that a man cannot kill another man's soul, but God can. This is why we are to fear God. If God cannot kill the soul, the passage advises that we do not fear Him.
Why are so many willing to assume that angels and humans are effected the same way in the Lake of fire? We are not eternal beings. Our souls are not immortal, as the angels' are. Adam and Eve were denied access to the tree of life lest they eat of it and LIVE FOREVER (Gen.3:22). Living forever is a gift. It is not automatic for humans. This is also taught by Jesus in John 6:50,51, where he says that if one eats of His flesh, he will not die but live forever. Therefore by elimination, we can see that dying is not the same as living forever.
My point? In order for a human to live in torment, he must be alive. To experience conscious torment forever, one must live forever.
But if one's punishment is death, and this death is everlasting, then this death (cessation of life) would be an "everlasting punishment". It takes a whole lot of assumption and association to conclude from scripture that a man will be in forever conscious torment. On the other hand, even simple passages such as John 3:16, tell us in plain language that whatever perish means, it cannot be the same thing as everlasting (eternal) life. It must be something other than that. Maybe perish means what the word actually means (perish the thought ^_^), and not some made up version that they say applies in the bible only, as is also claimed concerning 'death' and 'destroy'.
The same goes for the other passages I have shared. In plain language, they contradict the conclusion that a man will be in forever conscious torment. The lost soul is not destined to live forever.