The author of the book of Hebrews wrote:<\/p>\n
For\u00a0if we go on sinning deliberately\u00a0after receiving the knowledge of the truth,\u00a0there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,\u00a0but a fearful expectation of judgment, and\u00a0a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries<\/strong>.\u00a0(Hebrew 10:26-27)<\/p>\n Apparently, traditionalists never got the memo:<\/p>\n But if a man is a\u00a0sinner, he shall receive an\u00a0eternal\u00a0body, fitted to endure the\u00a0penalties\u00a0of\u00a0sins, that he may burn\u00a0eternally\u00a0in fire, nor ever be\u00a0consumed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n -Cyril of Jerusalem,\u00a0Catechetical Lecture 18<\/span><\/p>\n As the soul too, is a proof that not everything which can suffer pain can also die, why then do they yet demand that we produce real examples to prove that it is not incredible that the bodies of men condemned to everlasting punishment may retain their soul in the fire, may burn without being consumed<\/strong>, and may suffer without perishing?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/strong>-Augustine of Hippo, City of God<\/p>\n Likewise they shall be passible, because they shall never deteriorate and, although burning eternally in fire, they shall never be consumed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/strong>-Thomas Aquinas, The Apostles’ Creed<\/p>\n The fire you burn on earth is of a preying and devouring nature; for whatsoever it takes hold of it consumes to ashes; and when it meets with no more fuel it goes out. But here it is not so. For though it burns with that tremendous fierceness, which none but those that feel it know, yet does it not consume, not never will<\/strong>. We shall ever be burning, yet not burned. It is a tormenting, but not a consuming fire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n -John Bunyan, Visions of Heaven and Hell<\/p>\n Woe to the soul that is thus set up as a butt, for the wrath of the Almighty to shoot at; and as a bush that must burn in the flames of his jealousy,\u00a0and never be consumed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n -Richard Baxter, The Saints’ Everlasting Rest<\/p>\n And here the bodies of all the wicked shall burn, and be tormented to all eternity, and never be consumed<\/strong>; and the wrath of God shall be poured out on their souls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n -Jonathan Edwards, The History of Redemption<\/p>\n So the fire of\u00a0hell, as it will burn, torture, and distress rebellious sinners, it will preserve them in their beings; they shall not be\u00a0consumed\u00a0by it, but continued in it<\/strong>: so that these words are a reason of the former, showing and proving, that the soul in torment shall never die, or lose any of its powers and faculties; and particularly, not its gnawing, torturing conscience; and that the fire of\u00a0hell\u00a0is inextinguishable; for though sinners will be inexpressibly tormented in it, they will not be\u00a0consumed\u00a0by it<\/strong>; but the smoke of their torments shall ascend for ever and ever; and that they will be so far from being annihilated by the fire of\u00a0hell, that they shall be preserved in their beings in it, as flesh is preserved by salt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n -John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/p>\n The bodies of the damned will all be salted with fire, so tempered and prepared as to burn the more fiercely, and yet never consume<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n -John Whitaker, Sermon on Death, Judgment, and Eternity<\/p>\n When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a\u00a0hell\u00a0for it, but at the day of judgment thy body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like,\u00a0forever unconsumed<\/strong>, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of ‘Hell’s Unutterable Lament.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n -Charles Spurgeon, sermon on the Resurrection of the Dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The author of the book of Hebrews wrote: For\u00a0if we go on sinning deliberately\u00a0after receiving the knowledge of the truth,\u00a0there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,\u00a0but a fearful expectation of judgment, and\u00a0a fury of fire that will consume the … Continue reading \n
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