That is because she refuses to accept what the Bible actually teaches...hell is the grave, nothing more...all dead ones in the grave are sleeping, awaiting the resurrection on the last day...
"Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, and those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment." John 5:28,29]
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Lol. Here - your interpretation is busted right away:
Why do you highlight
"memorial" tombs like as if it's something different? :lol:
A tomb is described as memorial - it's a structure that remind us of a person who once lived!
It can be a structure for an event - like the Holocaust, to remind us what happened! That's what "memorial" is. Nothing more.
What about those who aren't buried in graves? Those unknown victims of foul play who are secretly buried somewhere,
or thrown into the waters? You say they don't count? They won't rise up?
The dead will rise up for the Judgement. We'll all be judged.
Judgement is what it is -
JUDGEMENT.
Here “judgment” is set in contrast with “life” and “everlasting life,” implying a judgment that results in death...2 Peter 2:9; 3:7...
That's from your own fabricated JW bible - New World Translation!
Here is 2 Peter 2:
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority.
They did die. They were punished for their depravity!
Are you saying, they will no longer rise up to be punished on Judgement Day?
We all die! In various ways!
Some die in a fire!
EVEN THE RIGHTEOUS DIE! But we're talking about physical death.
Therefore, you couldn't count the death of those in Sodom and Gomorrah as
THEIR FINAL Judgement.
The contrast that I see in that verse is this:
6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
Whatever death it may refer to is,
SPIRITUAL death - why? Because the verse speaks of torment of the soul.
8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
Therefore, those people will rise up again! To be judged!
It was the
burning of Sodom and Gomorrah that's symbolical of the burning in hell -
DAY AFTER DAY - which will happen to the ungodly!
That's the message!
As indicated by the context and by other scriptures, the judgment Jesus speaks of is not based on what a person did before he died but on his actions after he is resurrected...
EH?????
So.....why was the thief who was crucified with Jesus rewarded pronto?
Did we hear about Jesus saying -
"wait, wait, wait hold your horses.....that doesn't count. You should ask me after you're resurrected." :lol:
Continuation….
