The question is, are people willing to search out this truth in the only place that it can be found -- in the depth of the soul, as mediated by consciousness?
Absolutely! That is what it is all about.
But nobody in their right mind would want that one, Alamo-Girl!
I really wasn't speaking tongue-in-check because anyone who truly rejects the free gift of God in Christ, or fails to diligently seek Him, is wanting to be erased. The second death, as I understand it, is not eternal torment for non-believing ordinary beings but it is eternal torment for the rebellious spiritual principalities, Satan and his fallen angels, watchers, etc.
I really wasn't speaking tongue-in-check because anyone who truly rejects the free gift of God in Christ, or fails to diligently seek Him, is wanting to be erased.
Perzackly.
The second death, as I understand it, is not eternal torment for non-believing ordinary beings but it is eternal torment for the rebellious spiritual principalities, Satan and his fallen angels, watchers, etc.
I would offer Matthew 25:41 for clarification. Hell was "prepared for the devil and his angels," but the text tells us that people will be thrown therein.
(The whole thing gets even more ominous when we realize that the aggelois [angels] of Matthew 25:41 properly includes people. [Ooops!])