This is copied from one of my other post, and usualy it serves some good, so ill quote myself again lol. Here is what the "ETERNAL
FIRE" is all about.
Here we go, God be with me:
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For the creature [and/or creation itself]
was MADE subject to VANITY NOT WILLINGLY, but by reason of Him [that’s God]
Who HATH SUBJECTED the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the WHOLE CREATION groans and travails IN PAIN until NOW" (Rom. 8:20-22)!
Secondly, Jesus SPOKE ONLY IN PARABLES TO THE CROUDS. He later explained what He was teaching behind closed doors to His disciples.
ALL these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in PARABLES; and without a parable speak He NOT unto them" (Matt. 13:34).
What Jesus said has extremely deep spiritual meaning, but it is not LITERAL remember that.
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It is the SPIRIT that quickens [gives life]
; the FLESH PROFITS NOTHING: the words that I speak unto you, they are SPIRIT, and they are life" (John 6:63)
Perhaps this will help understand the weeping of gnashing and teeth.
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…cast into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth" (Matt. 13:42-43).
What Jesus is talking about is the SECOND DEATH. THE LAKE OF FIRE.
"…Let God be TRUE [Who says He "WILL save ALL MANKIND"]
, but every man a LIAR [who says He WILL NOT "save ALL MANKIND"]!
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And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" (Rev. 20:14-15) and "
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death," (Rev. 21:
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So even death and hell[Hades/Shoel] will be cast into this Lake of fire. What is it? It is GOD. God is the FIRE. He will burn out all INPURITIES OUT OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON.
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Beloved, think it NOT STRANGE concerning the FIERY trial which is to try you, as though some STRANGE thing happened unto you" (I Pet. 4:12).
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I indeed baptize you with water unto REPENTANCE: but He that comes after me is mightier than I, Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, AND WITH FIRE" (Matt. 3:11).
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For EVERY ONE [sinner and saint]
shall be salted with FIRE" (Mark 9:49).
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it [your faith]
be TRIED IN THE FIRE, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ" (I Pet. 1:7).
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Every man’s work [including believers]
shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed BY FIRE, and the FIRE shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but HE HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVED; YET SO AS BY FIRE" (I Cor. 3:13-15).
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And of the angels He says, Who makes His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of FIRE"(Heb. 1:7).
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Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing you shall heap coals of FIRE on his head" (Rom. 12:20).
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But who may abide the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s FIRE, and like fullers’ soap" (Malachi 3:2).
Remmember Matt, it said in the FURNACE OF FIRE there will be wailing and gnasshing of teeth. Look who is that Furnace, look at who IS THE FIRE.
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From above has He sent FIRE into my bones…" (Lamentations 1:13).
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Is not My word like as a FIRE? saith the Lord" (Jer. 23:29).
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For in My jealousy and in the FIRE of My wrath have I spoken" (Ezek. 38;19).
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…for all the earth shall be devoured with the FIRE of my jealousy" (Zeph. 3:
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For our God is a CONSUMING FIRE!"(Heb. 12:29)!
What is this fire, what is this furnace, who is the REFINERS FIRE? WHO PURIFIES WITH BRIMSTONE AND FIRE? WHO REFINES SILVER INTO GOLD? OUR GOD. GOD IS THE CONSUMING FIRE.
And are these non-believers judged differently from believers who are "
revealed, tried, salted and baptized IN FIRE?" Just HOW are these non-believers judged in the book of Revelation? How are the ".
..fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars..." JUDGED? Answer: "
... In the lake WHICH BURNS WITH FIRE ..." (Rev. 21:
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I hope you are starting to see a deeper spiritual understanding to what Gods FIRE is really about, and what the lake which burns with FIRE is all about.
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Who will have all men to be saved, and to come into the KNOWLEDGE of the truth" (I Tim. 2:4).
Jesus didn't come to save a small group of sinners,that is only a small part of it.
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And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent [Gk: apostello, to send out on a mission—commission]
TO BE THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD"(I John 4:14)
Maybe God doesn’t want the whole world to be saved?
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Who WILL have all men to be saved" (I Tim. 2:4).
Second witness:
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For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, Who is the Saviour of ALL MEN, especially [but not exclusively]
of those who believe" (I Tim. 4:10).
Doesn’t God will that most of humanity will eternally perish in the lake of fire?
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The Lord…is NOT WILLING that ANY should perish [eternally]…" (I Peter. 3:9).
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And I, if I be lifted up [on the cross]
from the earth, will draw ALL MEN UNTO ME" (John 12:32).
But doesn’t the whole world need first to have their sins atoned for?
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And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for our’s only, but also for THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD" (I John 2:2).
Second witness:
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The next day John sees Jesus coming unto him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, which TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD" (John 1:29).
Hasn’t the Church proven by their interpretation of the "lake of fire" that it is "impossible" to save all mankind?
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Who then CAN be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE"
But surely everyone will have to acknowledge the RISEN Jesus Christ as their Lord and their Jesus [Jehovah-SAVIOUR] before they can ever be saved, so when does that happen?
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That at the name of Jesus [Jehovah-Saviour—THEIR Saviour]
EVERY knee should bow, in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth; and that EVERY tongue should confess [‘That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised Him from the dead, THOU SHALT BE SAVED, Rom. 10:9)]
that Jesus Christ [The Christ that God ‘raised from the dead.’ Christ was already ‘RISEN’ when this was written in Phil. 2:11]
is Lord [‘Lord’ means ‘master’—acknowledging Christ as Master of their lives]
, to the glory of God the Father" (Phil. 2:10-11).
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To wit that God was in Christ, reconciling THE WORLD unto Himself, NOT imputing [reckoning]
THEIR TRESPASSES [SINS]
AGAINST THEM" (II Cor. 5:19).
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For THIS is GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have ALL men [What percentage? Five percent? Fifty percent?]
… ALL men to be saved..." (I Tim. 2:3-4).
Now you might say to yourself, Well God is just repeating this over and over because He just wishes it would happen, or He just wnats it to happen but Hes not gonna force it too happen. WRONG, HE WILL HAVE IT HAPPEN.
Remember the former things of old: for I am GOD, and there is none else; I am GOD, and there is none like Me. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel SHALL STAND, and WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE [as in I Tim. 2:4 and everywhere else]:
Calling a ravenous bird from the east [Cyrus?]
, the man that executes my counsel [just as the king of Assyria]
from a far country: yea, I have SPOKEN IT [as in I Tim. 2:4 and everywhere else]
I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS [as also in saving all mankind]
; I have PURPOSED IT [as also in saving all mankind]
I WILL ALSO DO IT" (Isaiah 46:9-11).
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So shall my WORD be that goes forth OUT OF MY MOUTH [just as in I Tim. 2:4 and everywhere else]
it shall NOT return into me void, but it SHALL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PLEASE, and it SHALL PROSPER IN THE THING WHERETO I SENT IT" (Isaiah 55:11).
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God is NOT a man, that He should LIE [do we think God LIES when He says that He WILL save all mankind in I Tim. 2:4?]
; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not DO IT? Or has He spoken [as in I Tim. 2:4 and many other places]
, and shall He not MAKE IT GOOD?" (Numbers 23:19).
Well? Those of you who contend with your Maker:
"Hath God SAID" in I Tim. 2:4 that He
"WILL have all men to be saved?" Well then,
"SHALL HE NOT DO IT?" (Num. 23:19). Has "
He [God] SPOKEN" in I Tim. 2:4 and many other places, that He "
…WILL have all men to be saved?" Well then,
"…shall He NOT MAKE IT GOOD?" (Num. 23:19).
All these Scriptures make it sound as if the Church has many worship practices that are nothing but the philosophies, commandments, and traditions of men rather than Scripture.
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Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men…Full well you reject the commandments of God, [like: ‘LOVE YOUR ENEMIES’]
that you may keep your OWN TRADITION" (Mark 7:7 & 9).
God Bless and may He open up your eyes to see.
P.S. All this can be found in your bible, or in rays articles
Edit: For the your law question, read this article which i was pointed to asking the same questions.
http://www.*not-allowed*.com/freefromlaw.php
Alex