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[–]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.