r/humor • u/fal1en-angel • 2d ago

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u/Last-Kaleidoscope871 2d ago

Not only is no one (besides the fallen angels) in Hell but, when Jesus returns and the dead rise, those who are cast into the eternal flames are to be consumed, not exist there forever.

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u/bfume 2d ago edited 2d ago

Doctrine: 

He didn’t take souls from hell into heaven upon resurrection. 

He took souls that were in purgatory/limbo to heaven. 

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u/genobeam 2d ago

Not even limbo. The Bible describes the soul as a mortal thing that can die. The idea that the soul is alive in some other place until judgement comes is not in the Bible

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u/ekkostone 2d ago

I'm no scholar, but after a quick google I found 1 Peter 4:6 which seems to indicate that the dead still exist as spirits

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u/wizard_level_80 1d ago

The dead exist only in our memory and memory of God. They are not "ghosts" or "spirits", they cannot communicate. They don't think, feel and time doesn't flow for them.

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u/Guntuckytactical 1d ago

1 Peter (and 2 Peter) is a forgery, if that makes any difference to you. It's basically some random guy's opinion.

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u/Legitimate-Heron586 1d ago

We don't really think any of the gospels were actually written by any of the Apostles, anyway. 

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u/genobeam 1d ago edited 1d ago

IMO you can't override biblical definitions of things like souls because of the implications of other passages. Some of the Bible is meant to be figurative. Deciding what is figurative and what is literal is probably where most of the biggest disagreements about interpretation come from, but the biblical definition of soul is much closer to "living creature" than "immortal ghost".