My Beliefs About "Hell" And How I Got Them (Off Topic)

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Shlama Albion,

You wrote:

"but I DID respect the idea that finally evil and totally unrepentant sinners WERE EXTINGUISHED by God."

But I enjoy story telling.

I hope that you enjoyed my story here.

How quaint! I too, love a good story, and you do spin some interesting stories.

Surely your God of annihilation is far more compassionate than The Savior of the world, who gives eternal life to all flesh, and I see now why such a universal Savior must necessarily be far more mean and angry than the one you believe in?

Your version of God destroys his enemies. Our Lord Yeshua taught us :

Love your enemies; and bless him that curseth you; and do good to him that hateth you; and pray for them that lead you in bonds, and that persecute you:
45 that ye may be the children of your Father that is in heaven, who causeth his sun to rise upon the good and upon the bad, and sendeth his rain upon the righteous and upon the unrighteous.

God does not annihilate his enemies. He loves them and forgives them.

Does that offend you?

I cannot make all my enemies friends. My powers are very limited. God can do all things and He will have all men repent and come to the knowledge of the truth. It is also written:"For this is good and acceptable before God our life-giver;
4 who would have all men live, and be converted to the knowledge of the truth."1 Tim. 2:4

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us???ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.2 Pet 3:9

God does not want anyone to perish. He does want all to repent. I believe in the will of God, not the will of man.

The God I know also destroys His enemies in the very best way imaginable.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.

The God Who does that must be infinitely superior to the childish and petulant being you claim to worship.

Yeshua did not die only to annihilate those souls for whom He gave His Divine and Eternal Life.

He died to give them Life, to seek and save that which is lost, even as the one lost lamb, for whose sake He would leave the 99 and seek it until He finds it, and brings it home on His shoulders rejoicing.

"Be not overcome by evil. Overcome evil with good." Rom. 12:21
Our Lord will certainly do that which He expects us to do.

He destroys every sinner with the power of His grace, love and the sword of The Spirit-His word, making him or her into a new creature in The Messiah.
He is so much better than our petty and carnal image of Who He is.

I can see the Greek god Zeus doing what you say God will do.

I cannot imagine Yeshua doing it.

He is so much greater than petulant and vindictive Zeus.

Dave