[cuban leaf]

I don’t like to create strife, but when I say things like, “Gee, the bible says eternal life vs death/destruction/perish/etc. Why do you think it is eternal suffering?”, some guys really blow a gasket. It’s because they have never really studied it. They just were preached to about it, got scared, and tried not to think about it while they try really hard to be good so they don’t suffer for all eternity in a conscious state.

That is not really “good news”, especially considering it is, according to the bible, the default human condition. But like me before I actually bothered to study the subject, they feel pretty strong in their opinion because they are part of the consensus. ;-)

Kinda like global warming. :-P

[American Constitutionalist]

Got to do good works to get rid of that guilt conscience or the fear of perishing.
Hardly good news.

[American Constitutionalist]

Perhaps ? that's the whole point God was making in the Old Testament that no matter how good you were, or how many good works you did, or how much you tried to keep the law ( after all he made a provision for that also for he knew that they would not and could not keep the law perfectly, the yearly atonement. ) is to cover up their sin like Adam and Eve did.
Paul made a point in Romans that had he not known the law he would not have known what sin was.
The law shows us how much we are in this sinful, wretched, depraved state and no matter how much we try we can not make the grade.