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Lesson being? Hell is a good thing because it purifies souls. Out with the old, in with the new. Reread Luke 16:19-31. Look at verse 31 again ( “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”). In other words, it's parableistic this account.
>Revelation 19:20 – The beast and false prophet are “thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.”
>Revelation 20:10 – “And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
>Revelation 20:14–15 – Death and Hades are also thrown into the lake of fire. “This is the second death, the lake of fire.”
>Revelation 21:8 – The unbelieving and wicked “will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
Key points:
1. Eternal torment is stated explicitly only in Rev. 20:10 – and that’s about the devil, beast, and false prophet, who are said to be “tormented forever and ever.”
2. For humans, it’s called “the second death” (Rev. 20:14, 21:8). Death suggests finality, not ongoing conscious torment. That’s why some traditions (like annihilationism) argue that the lake of fire means irreversible destruction rather than eternal suffering.
3. The fire itself is eternal, but not necessarily the suffering of all who enter. Similar wording appears in Jude 7, where Sodom and Gomorrah are said to undergo “the punishment of eternal fire”—yet the cities are ashes, not still burning.
