#6 HELL NO!

Following: http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/adventists-on-soul-sleep.html

We found present enjoyment of eternal life in our Lord Jesus Christ denied, but surely Seventh Day Adventists don't deny hell do they?

This one is not so obvious in the Fundamental Beliefs...                             
Under Clause 25: Second Coming of Christ we find: "...but the unrighteous will die." and under Clause 27: Millennium and the End of Sin: "The unrighteous dead will then be resurrected, and with Satan and his angels will surround the city; but fire from God will consume them and cleanse the earth."

Hey!...check this out in Revelation chapter 20 – for a start, they’ve got it BACK-TO-FRONT!   Satan will inspire the nations to surround the 'beloved city' only to be devoured by fire…THEN…the resurrection of the unrighteous will take place - NOT BEFORE!                                                                                     

What we are NOT being told is Ellen White saying in 'The Great Controversy':     
"How repugnant to every emotion of love and mercy, and even to our sense of justice, is the doctrine that the wicked dead are tormented with fire and brimstone in an eternally burning hell; that for the sins of a brief earthly life they are to suffer torture as long as God shall live."                          
"It is urged that the infliction of endless misery upon the wicked should show God's hatred of sin as an evil which is ruinous to the peace and order of the universe. Oh dreadful blasphemy!"                       
"It is beyond the power of the human mind to estimate the evil which has been wrought by the heresy of eternal torment...one of the false doctrines that constitute the wine of the abomination of Babylon..."

Whoa! Strong words, Mrs. White!...but how do your human sentiments stack up against Holy Scripture?

"Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels...these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal"  Matthew 25:41-46

“But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear Him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell…”      Luke 12:5

In case anybody thinks that the Christian’s God cannot be so severe as when Korah and his band were buried alive or incinerated (Numbers 16)….

               “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Hebrews 10:31

            “For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:29

…and in a day of ‘same-sex marriage’, let’s not forget those from Sodom and Gomorrha…“suffering the vengeance of eternal fire”. Jude 7

Yes, God is love - but He knows how to hate.

Sorry Mrs. White, we have to do with a holy God and yes, He has prepared “the lake of fire which burneth with fire and brimstone.” Revelation 21:8                         

How long will torment last?...more to the point:

“Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men…”                 
2 Corinthians 5:11

 

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Acknowledgements:                                                                                    
White E, ‘The Great Controversy’, United Publishers, 1971                                              sdanet.org/atissue/doctrines/gc28                                                                        
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