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NASB | 2 Corinthians 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 5:8 we are [as I was saying] of good courage and confident hope, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
Bible Question:
That WAS a question and who are you to tell me which to select? Futhermore you need to address the POST and not the POSTER! So, then, why does BRUCE say, "The everlasting fire does not necessarily imply perpetual existence of the individual. The furnace in the parable of the Tares consumes the tares as waste. From the point of view of that parable, the wicked are the waste of the moral world, and they are cast into the consuming fire, not so much to punish them, as to get rid of them. How far the category of waste can be properly applied to human souls is a question of the same sort as that which ask, Can a being endowed with freewill fitly be compared to clay in the hands of a potter?" These points are noticed by Weiss, vide Das Matthaus-Evangelium, S. 539. The Kingdom of God, BRUCE Who do you think the tares are? What do you think will happen to them according to the Bible? Especially, when Jesus says, how often, would I have gathered thy children, and ye would not." Mat 23:37 KJV The everlasting fire is, not less than the other figures, only a symbol, as appears from the fact that, taken literally, it excludes from the region of possibility the " outer darkness." All these figures are the products of the religious imagination, and express in sensuous terms the intense conviction of the enlightened conscience as to the blessedness of being good and the misery of being evil. Dives wished one sent from the dead to give a glowing description of the place of torment to his brethren, that they might not come into it. But our Lord represents Abraham as replying, " If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead." The theme of their preaching was righteousness here and now. Christ meant to teach that he who has no ear for their doctrine cannot be made a citizen of the divine kingdom by the terrors of hell, however vividly depicted The Kingdom of God, BRUCE |
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