I have not believed in eternal torment in hell for quite some time... (thanks to the SDA church)... I grew up Baptist, went through a Pentacostal period... became a heathen pagan for awhile... then full of remorse a SDA... then I found this place... and ever since I have this hunger for learning the truth... seeing as how it seems that "everything I thought I knew is wrong"... I fought and researched and keep returning to this sight... been reading here for at least three years now though it only shows I have slightly under two days as being logged in...
Now... where I get a little confused is... If a man is a rapist, murderer, thief, molester, (and everything else evil) and dies while comitting an evil act, without ever the thought of repentance crossing his mind... add a little witchcraft and outright devil worship just to make him as evil a man as ever walked the face of the earth... my question is this... after he dies is their any punishment waiting ? ...the SDA taught that him not recieving the gift of entering heaven was the punishment that caused the teeth knashing etc...
I'm sure there is an explanation somewhere... anyone care to expound on this... thank you, Charlie