Category: Shield of the Spirit
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Revelation 20:10 is one of those verses that’s been used for centuries to justify a theology of eternal conscious torment, yet when read carefully — in context, in Greek, and in light of the book’s apocalyptic symbolism — it actually teaches something far deeper and more beautiful than most sermons ever admit. The Verse Itself…
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Mark 43 “And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell,[i] to the unquenchable fire.[j] 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be…
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Matthew 18:9 “And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.” 1. Context of Matthew 18 The chapter isn’t about eternal torment — it’s about humility,…
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When Jesus told his disciples, “You will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes” (v. 23), he wasn’t speaking about some distant end of the world. He was commissioning them for an urgent mission in their own time. The context is the looming crisis of 70 AD,…
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Matthew 5:21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder,[a] and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister[b][c] will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or…
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Jesus used brutal images to wake people up. When he talked about “Gehenna,” he wasn’t sketching a blueprint for an eternal torture chamber that God operates like some cosmic executioner. He was doing the opposite of abstract theology: he was using a concrete, gut-level symbol — the Valley of Hinnom — to say, “This is…