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everlasting torment

noun as in fire and brimstone

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On his arrival each one is brought before three judges, Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Acacus, who pass sentence and send the wicked to everlasting torment and the good to a place of blessedness called the Elysian Fields.

Paul’s church and marriage are threatened by the notion that everlasting torment isn’t actually part of God’s plan.

He was one of the people whose conversion we prayed for so that they did not end in the everlasting torment of hellfire.

"Everlasting torment is intolerable from a moral point of view because it makes God into a bloodthirsty monster who maintains an everlasting Auschwitz for victims whom he does not even allow to die," wrote the late Clark Pinnock, an influential evangelical theologian.

But if individuals prefer to die in the hope that the gods will revive them in a paradise, thereby granting them reprieve from everlasting torment, then we should respect that too.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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