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My God is an all consuming fire so if we will ever be with him we will all burn for eternity.
Is Jude 1:13 figurative or literal?Or are these men tortured in two different places forever?At what point would these men (who would certainly not be found in the Lamb's book of life) switch eternal domiciles.
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Either Gods will is figurative and symbolic or "the lake of fire" and "the blackness of darkness" is.I don't want to be found opposing God's will.
1 Timothy 2:3-6:
3-For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4-Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
5-For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6-Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
If I deny he was a ransom for all then I oppose the finished work of Christ which is anti-Christ.I do not believe for a minute that I cannot err,but I would rather err on the "good news" end than be found opposing God and his redemptive gift to all mankind through Jesus.
2 Peter 3:9 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.
God wants me to love my enemies and it was always my assumption I was called to be like Jesus who asked his Father to forgive his tormentors because they did not know what they were doing.It's not easy trying to understand what to take figuratively and literally.However when a literal translation causes conflict with other scripture and a figurative translation fits all scripture then I usually go with the figurative.
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Is Jude 1:13 figurative or literal?Or are these men tortured in two different places forever?At what point would these men (who would certainly not be found in the Lamb's book of life) switch eternal domiciles.
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Either Gods will is figurative and symbolic or "the lake of fire" and "the blackness of darkness" is.I don't want to be found opposing God's will.
1 Timothy 2:3-6:
3-For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4-Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
5-For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6-Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
If I deny he was a ransom for all then I oppose the finished work of Christ which is anti-Christ.I do not believe for a minute that I cannot err,but I would rather err on the "good news" end than be found opposing God and his redemptive gift to all mankind through Jesus.
2 Peter 3:9 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.
God wants me to love my enemies and it was always my assumption I was called to be like Jesus who asked his Father to forgive his tormentors because they did not know what they were doing.It's not easy trying to understand what to take figuratively and literally.However when a literal translation causes conflict with other scripture and a figurative translation fits all scripture then I usually go with the figurative.
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
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