[Elsie]

makes you look sophomoric, ~and unexperienced in "DEBATE" .

I guess ETERNAL is defined differently for you.

[Yosemitest]

And what of the "VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE" ?
What did Jesus SAY about it in Luke 17:29 ?
God gave Garner Ted Armstrong a better ability to discern this ~ than someone so uneducated in the Bible ~ as me.

"Sodom and Gomorrah are set forth as an example of that final punishment which is to come upon the wicked--
being consumed by FIRE;
completely dissolved and turned to ashes!
Even as the last verses of Malachi and the final verses of Isaiah tell us,
the wicked (such as the rich man, who sees a wall of fire approaching him) are to suffer the vengeance of GEHENNA FIRE!
That fire will consume them.
It will burn them up.
They will be turned into ashes!
They are then dead; dead for all eternity,
from which there is never any resurrection.

Notice.
"And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
condemned them with an overthrow,
making them an example unto those that after
should live ungodly . . ." (2 Peter 2:6).
Though Sodom and Gomorrah are said to have suffered the "vengeance of eternal fire," it begs the question,
"Are they still burning?"
Of course not!
As a matter of fact, many Bible scholars believe that the ancient foundation stones of Sodom and Gomorrah have been found.
Where?
Buried beneath the waters at the southern extremity of the Dead Sea!

Not only did the fire and brimstone from God go out after it had finished consuming all of the people, and other combustible and flammable material in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah--
not only has that fire been out for centuries and centuries--
apparently the very site of those two ancient cities has been buried for these many millennia beneath water!
The fire WAS FROM "the Eternal," but was not to burn for all eternity!
It WENT OUT after it had consumed all the fuel upon which it fed.

Surely, suffering death by fire is one of the most horrifying and excruciating ways to DIE!
Almighty God's punishments are indeed horrifying to contemplate!
Yet, God is a merciful God,
and has decreed that the wicked are to be burned up --
NOT kept alive in fiendish torture,
burning, burning, burning but never quite burning up,
as the satanic, FALSE DOCTRINES of so many churches teach!"

So I THANK GOD for giving us someone who can ~ SO CLEARLY ~ put SATAN'S DECEPTIONS in their proper place.

I SAY AGAIN:

"Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven,
and God hath remembered her iniquities. "