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Scripture Analysis

Job 3:13

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For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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Contradictions (1)

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  • Is annihilation or endless misery the portion of manking?

    Job 3, Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, and Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 articulate a thoroughgoing annihilationist anthropology — the dead know nothing, all go to dust, man has no preeminence above a beast, the grave is silence. Matthew 25:46, Revelation 20:10, 14:11, 20:15, and Daniel 12:2 articulate eternal conscious torment — everlasting punishment, smoke of torment rising forever, the lake of fire, awakening to everlasting shame.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

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