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[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Matthew 25:41 “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;

What's this eternal fire Matthew was writing about?

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

What's this lake of fire John was writing about?

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.

What's this unquenchable fire Mark was writing about?

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

What's this punishment of eternal fire "Jude" was writing about?

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Based on its contents I agree with Martin Luther and much of the early church that Revelation is a forgery. However it's so cryptic it may not even matter.

The rest of your quotations say nothing about eternal torment. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire, they're not still there being tortured in it.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The rest of your quotations say nothing about eternal torment.

They all hit "eternal fire"

Surely that hits the main points of "eternal" and "torment".

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Eternal fire, not eternal people in fire.

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;"

So they should go into the eternal fire, but then leave again?

The "leave again" isn't clearly implied.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They die again (the second death) and their corpses are burned until there's nothing left.