The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
The Bible offers four mutually incompatible afterlife schemes. The apocalyptic strand (Daniel 12, Matthew, Mark, Luke, 2 Thessalonians, Hebrews, Jude, Revelation) describes eternal conscious torment.
Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.
Theology
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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.
Theology
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"Revelation 20:10 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/revelation/20/10?version=WEB (retrieved 27 August 2026).