That would indeed explain why the rich man was having a problem.
Luk 16:24 WEB He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
So, by all means.... if the rich man died, and lifted up his eyes in hell, begging for mercy... this clearly is fire in Sheol.
Being separated from God is a very serious problem, but better him than me.
Notice he says "flame" not fire. Like "cough" is not the respiratory condition but a symptom, so is flame a symptom of fire. But again, when one transits from time-space into eternity the only eternity is God. Heaven is not a place but a Person. Eternalness is an attribute of God and God does not share His glory. To be "hid in Christ" or "in the Spirit" means to be [back] in God but now with a body comparable to Jesus' body. It is a spiritual body, and we are transformed, actually, conformed, into the image of Christ ("Anointing.") Eternal is not a place. Eternal is God Himself. And for the people of God so conformed into the image of the Spirit because God is Spirit - NOT "
a" Spirit but IS Spirit, we are changed from the temporal and material into the eternal and spiritual and return back into God who contemplated His saved people as saved beings and in His Mind are now after creation of the universe has served its purpose are brought into the Trinity/Godhead but this time with a spiritual body like unto Christ.
And those separated from God? One of the four elements of created matter is "fire" and fire is particular to creation. The "fire tetrahedron" (heat, fuel, oxygen, chemical chain reaction) only exists in creation, not in God. God doesn't require oxygen to live or exist. Part of creation required "fire" for it is ordained by God. But it is created. If you extinguish one of those elements it ceases to exist. Where does the fire go when extinguished? But the unatoned "rich man" was in a flame, not in a fire. Flame is a symptom of fire. Flame is what you get when something burns and is consumed. There was no consuming of the bush where the Presence of God was.
2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him
in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold,
the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. Exodus 3:2.
Now, I can see what Moses saw. There was the bush, combustible material which had oxygen, heat, etc., everything for which is necessary for a fire to burn and exist and yet the bush was not consumed. But look at what happens here:
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and
fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. Rev. 20:9.
One is eternal (bush) the other is temporal (fire that devoured/consumed.) God doesn't have a respiratory organ to breathed so the fire did not consume the bush because God represented as fire was of the eternal sort and not temporal. So, when all is said and done, the wicked have been judged and they are eternally separated from God, then the fire in Luke of which the rich man experienced is not the fire of the temporal - meaning it was not temporal fire that consumed, then the fire is not physical fire. So, since he was experiencing his sin unatoned, then the fire is not a real fire. So, something else is going on. My position is that it is not a fire, but a sting based upon 1 Corinthians 15:54-56
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56
The sting of death is sin;
and the strength of sin is the law. 1 Co 15:54–56.
So, the rich man is not in an actual fire. But it feels like a fire because of the eternal STING of unatoned sin which is the sensation of being separated from God.
i suppose that's why it's referred to as the lake of fire.
Rev 21:8 WEB But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
SEE ABOVE. The Law of God/Moses exacerbates the sting of sin, unatoned sin. And unatoned sin results in separation from God represented by the "great gulf" between those in God and COMFORTED and those in torments of the sting.
Of course. You are d'man, and all knowledge and wisdom and understanding lies with you, and there's no possibility that you can be wrong.
Correct-o-mundo. I don't take my theology from religious books or Gentile theologies like you do. I take my understanding from the Word of God.
Which would definitely explain why Jesus quoted Isaiah 66:24, in Mark 9, three times when warning about the dangers of sin, and the importance of escaping from our sin.
Isa 66:24 Tanakh-1917 And they shall go forth, and look Upon the carcasses of the men that have rebelled against Me; For their worm shall not die, Neither shall their fire be quenched; And they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. And it shall come to pass, That from one new moon to another, And from one sabbath to another, Shall all flesh come to worship before Me, Saith the Lord.
Do you understand the "worm that doesn't die"? Explain that to me.
Mar 9:43-48 WEB 43 If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, 44 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ 45 If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be cast into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched— 46 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’ 47 If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire, 48 ‘where their worm doesn’t die, and the fire is not quenched.’
It's not a real fire because it's not taking place in creation where everything is physical.
How convenient for you.
You escape, while Gentiles suffer torment.
That's what the Word of God says. Those that are atoned are with God and comforted, those not atoned suffer the STING of death. It only "feels" like a fire/flame but it doesn't exist in eternity where a gulf has separated the Hebrews from Gentiles. The rich man was Gentile. The beggar was Hebrew. Under Roman occupation they regulated Israel's economy and had all the money.
Oh, I've learned a lot from you.
According to you, and your twisted theology, Gentiles stoke the fires of hell.
Unless of course you get offended by the idea of fire, because it describes the magnitude of suffering, then you downplay it to comfort.
You are indeed a dangerous and untrustworthy person.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 1 Co 15:54–56.
While you regurgitate false Gentile teaching from Gentile men's books, I take my theology from the Word of God, and I can tell you've never studied or even considered what the STING of death is and why the Law causes its STING.
You see the word "fire/flame" and look at it from the perspective of man and not the perspective of the Eternal God. You look at Scripture (which is spiritual) because it is eternal - yes, ETERNAL for all of you that teach the Law is "abolished" or "obsolete." This passage above proves the Law is not abolished or obsolete when in death and in eternity it still serves a purpose: Convicting the unatoned sinner of their sin of not being elect of God - Like the Hebrew people in covenant with God.