“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”
2 Timothy 4:3-5

We are here to make full proof of our ministration of Him.

Blessings brother,
BT

The unfaithful servant –

“But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.”
Matthew 25:18

“Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:”
Matthew 25:24-26

“And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 25:30

Such is the inheritance of a slothful and wicked servant.

“For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”
2 Peter 2:21

Let the Word of God be your guide… not the carnal man who seeks to make God into that which best suits his own ideas.

Amen!!!

The same words used to describe hell are the same words used to describe our salvation. I have no set “doctrine” on eternal judgment. It has no consequence on my walk here before Him. I have noticed that people who hold such doctrines have little zeal to declare His Name, are less than diligent concerning sin; they live apathetic lives and have no sense that the Christian life is a race, with the diligent gaining the prize.

“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
1 Corinthians 9:24-27

I have neither time nor desire to discuss matters that don’t contribute to finishing the race that HE has set before me.

“burning in an eternal hell”?

Is hell really never-ending conscious anguish, agony, and pain of spirit, soul, and body? Was it not Augustine of Hippo in the 4th century who gave us that wildly rampant doctrine? During the first few centuries, the early church did not mistakenly believe the heresy that hell is never-ending.

Teaching that hell never ends but is eternal massively misrepresents the character, nature, and attributes of our just but ceaselessly compassionate Creator.

Study the words ‘forever’ ‘everlasting’ and ‘eternal’ in Hebrew/Greek and their usage in various other passages not referring to hell or heaven, such as the mountains in Psalms and Jonah in the belly of the whale. In those two examples, even in English the words everlasting and forever cannot carry the definition commonly ascribed to hell.

Know that the Greek word often translated as “forever” or “everlasting” or “eternal” (aion) MORE LITERALLY means “age”, referring to a lengthy but limited period of time.

WHEN the adjective aionios, meaning everlasting is used in Greek with nouns of action it has reference to the RESULT of the act, NOT the PROCESS. The phrase (1) everlasting punishment is comparable to (2) everlasting redemption and (3) everlasting salvation, all Scriptural phrases. All three according to the correct usage of Greek are in reference to the result, not the process.

The lost shall not be in punishment forever but will be punished once and for all with eternal RESULTS.

I humbly hope that those erroneously, egregiously exercised as though hell is never ending, conscious anguish and agony will get this sorted out to the praise of the glory of the God Who Is Truth, Love, and Justice in perfect proportion for all His creation.