Eternal Torment doctrine: fallacious propaganda

Eternal Torment doctrine: fallacious propaganda

I can’t blame the agnostic for questioning the existence of God; I can’t blame the atheist for rejecting the notion of a Supreme Being. Not in the light of a popular “Christian” view of God.

If I thought for a moment that the traditional understanding of God was accurate, I would eliminate the Divinity from my own worldview!

Listen carefully and you might hear the churchgoers singing:

“What bliss will fill the ransomed souls,When they in glory dwell,To see the sinner as he rolls,In quenchless flames of hell.”(From a gospel song by Isaac Watts [1674-1748])

Even today you can hear echoes of hellfire and brimstone preacher Jonathan Edwards, consigning lost sinners to excruciating agony in everlasting flames:

“The sight of hell torments will exaltthe happiness of the saints forever.”(Jonathan Edwards, “The Eternity of Hell Torments”)

Preachers and parishioners alike cling to the doctrine of Eternal Torment as if their lives depended on it. They believe with all their hearts that this heinous concept is biblical. But this doctrine is nothing more than fallacious propaganda. It is at the heart of a satanic scheme of disinformation, propagating a warped view of God and His character.

The Bible portrays a time of judgment and punishment. I don’t deny that. But “the wages of sin” is not Eternal Torment. It’s Death! (See Romans 6:23). Unrepentant sinners, rejecters of God’s grace, will suffer eternal loss. They will forfeit immortality. Their end will be oblivion.

This truth is presented clearly in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

The alternative to Everlasting Life is not Eternal Torment. It’s Everlasting Death.