Can I get a brief history of how the concepts of soul immortality and eternal hell torment were developed in the church? Was it not something the first century church believed in?
There’s this one guy who started it: Jesus Christ. Ever since, men have been debating it. The end.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke each hold multiple references of Jesus teaching about the doom of eternal judgment and condemnation. Many try to dismiss it, but you know what you never hear? Anyone addressing John 3:17–18. Lots of preachers love John 3:16 and never study John 3:17–18*.
All of mankind is already condemned. If the eternal life Jesus came to offer is is rejected, the default is that we are already condemned. Our race is a rebel race that chose the wrong side in a spiritual war. We didn’t just do it at the beginning, but every nation, ever age, every generation and every individual’s natural default position is hatred of the one true God.
Men make up all kinds of systems to ignore that. Jesus is the only one who came to save us from it.
Turn to Jesus and live.
Ref: John 3:17–18 “ 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Eternal Life
There’s this one guy who started it: Jesus Christ. Ever since, men have been debating it. The end.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke each hold multiple references of Jesus teaching about the doom of eternal judgment and condemnation. Many try to dismiss it, but you know what you never hear? Anyone addressing John 3:17–18. Lots of preachers love John 3:16 and never study John 3:17–18*.
All of mankind is already condemned. If the eternal life Jesus came to offer is is rejected, the default is that we are already condemned. Our race is a rebel race that chose the wrong side in a spiritual war. We didn’t just do it at the beginning, but every nation, ever age, every generation and every individual’s natural default position is hatred of the one true God.
Men make up all kinds of systems to ignore that. Jesus is the only one who came to save us from it.
Turn to Jesus and live.
Ref: John 3:17–18 “ 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
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