10 REASONS WHY THERE WILL BE NO ETERNALLY BURNING HELLFIRE AS CATHOLICS BELIEVE

10 REASONS WHY THERE WILL BE NO ETERNALLY BURNING HELLFIRE

1 – Because everlasting life is a gift from God (Rom. 6:23) that the unsaved don’t possess; on the contrary they “shall not see life” (John 3:36); “no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him” (1 John 3:15).

Note: Paul says in Romans 2:7 that those who will obtain life eternal are the ones who look for immortality. We don’t go after something that we already possess.

2 – Because the eternal torment would perpetuate and immortalize sin, suffering, pain, and that contradicts the divine revelation that those things will no more exist under the new conditions after Jesus’ return (Rev. 2:14).

3 – Because the universe would always keep a dark site, with billions of creatures living eternally in unending torments, with their existences thus preserved by God Himself, in Whom “we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28).

Note: The Bible informs that after God persecutes His enemies with “darkness”, causing an “utter end” to those who are not His, “affliction shall not rise the second time” (Nahum 1:9).

4 – Because the notion of an unquenchable fire, that burns eternally, is incompatible with the attribute of love and justice seen as characteristics of the divine character, and postulates the concept of an ire that is never consumed.

5 – Because the Scriptures teach that the atoning work of Christ is to “put away sin” (Heb. 9:26), first of the individual, then, finally, of the entire universe. The plain result of Christ’s sacrifice will be seen, not only in a redeemed people, but in this Earth totally renewed (Eph. 1:14).

6 – Because the Bible indicates that only the saved ones will have incorruptible bodies (Fil. 3:20, 21 and 1 Cor. 15:35-55).

Note: The true believers in the thesis of an eternally burning hell face an immense difficulty to explain how the resurrected ungodly could be thrown into a fire that never consumes their non-incorruptible bodies.

7 – Because Paul clearly speaks of eternal “destruction” of the sinners, who will be banished from God's presence, and it is inconceivable an act of destruction that never completes itself, as if it were an eternal process (2 Thes. 1:7-10).

Note: Paul indicates that the “fires of vengeance” are still in the future and will be manifested at Christ’s Second Advent, by which the notions of a hell already in operation become totally nonsense.

8 – Because the same fire that causes the “perdition of ungodly men” operates the transformation of the planet, thus setting the stage for “new heavens and a New Earth, in which justice dwells” (2 Pet. 3:6-13).

9 – Because the description of the punishment of the ungodly in Rev. 20:14, where the lake of fire is called “second death”, confirms the many statements throughout the Scriptures, both in the Old and New Testaments, dealing with the final extinction of the sinners.

Note: Some of the texts that clearly describe that are: Psalm 37:9, 10, 20; 68:2; 92:7; Ezekiel 28:14-28; Zephaniah 1:14-18; Malachi 4:1-3; Matthew 10:28b; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; 2 Peter 3:6-10; Revelation 21:8.

10 – Because nothing else follows the description of the operation of the lake of fire, but for the detailing of the throwing into it of all the condemned beings, then occurring the description of “new heavens and a New Earth . . . and there was no more sea [nor lake of fire]” – Rev. 21:1.

Note: Be it remembered that in the original Bible text there is no division of chapters and verses, thus in the description of the “destruction of the ungodly” there is a natural sequence, lacking the least information that the “lake of fire” jumps from the surface of the Earth, where it clearly occurs (see Rev. 20:7-10) to keep on burning in another location of the universe.