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klinton said:
Yes...but it does not imply that hell is literal. Heaven is mentioned many times as a literal place throughout the scriptures. Hell never is. Hell is a doctrine of the church, not a teaching from the bible. Get over it.
Why exactly would God show an apostle such useless information if it didn't effect us somehow? Quite simply, it was pretty clear in showing that you better not follow the Dragon's example or you'll share the same fate.
Yes...several verses later I think it goes on to say that those judged unfit were also thrown into the lake. Only this time the (added phrase, which did not appear in the earliest manuscripts) 'tormented forever and ever' bit was replaced with the correct writing 'the second' or final 'death'...no passage into heaven.
The lake was an analogy for destruction...not a place of torment.
If karma's a bitch, it will be my bitch!
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