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发帖数: 38600 | 1 10 The Torment of Job
（Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
“Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
godliest man on Earth and will never curse God. Satan argues that Job lives
the sweet life, so God allows Satan to take away all Job’s treasured
possessions, even his children. His flocks and property are stolen by
surrounding enemies, and his children are all crushed to death by a wind
that collapses their house.
Job refuses to curse God. So God rubs it in Satan’s face, knowing full well
that Satan will simply raise the stakes. Then God allows him to torture Job
’s body all over with boils and sores, but not to kill him. This is all in
the first 2 chapters. Most of the rest of the Book is a lengthy rant by Job,
interrupted by arguments from his friends against judging God. Job never
once curses God, but demands an explanation from God and asks over and over,
“Why has he done this to me?!”
From chapters 38 to 42, God finally shows up and answers Job out of a storm,
“Who is this who darkens my counsel with words that have no knowledge?
Gird up your loins like a man. Now I will question you, and you will answer
me. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Answer me, if
you even understand how.”
God explains to Job in a long diatribe that God created everything in
existence, including Job, and does not have to abide by the rules, since he
created the rules. His primary point is that Job, with his feeble, finite
mind, cannot possibly comprehend the first thing about what is right or good
or true, under God, that God alone comprehends righteousness, goodness, and
truth, and that man must do as God commands. In the end, since Job never
actually cursed God, God rewards his faith and obedience by giving him twice
as much of everything as he had before, and blessing him and his wife with
3 daughters and 7 sons, the same number as before.
But God never gives Job (or us) an explanation for why he would allow bad
things to happen to good people. The only reasonable answer is quite scary:
the only reason you woke alive this morning and are still breathing is
because of God’s beneficent mercy, a mercy he can take away at a whim. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 9 The Hand Writing on the Wall
（Daniel 5）
1 King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and
drank wine with them. 2 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave
orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his
father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his
nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 3 So they
brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in
Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank
from them. 4 As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and
silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone. 5 Suddenly the fingers of a human
hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lamp stand in
the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. 6 His face turned
pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were
knocking.
Belshazzar was king of Babylon until 539 BC, when the Persians conquered
Babylon and killed him. The Bible explains that this was God’s punishment
against Belshazzar for his wanton blasphemy, especially his drinking from
the goblets that his father had stolen from the Temple of Solomon in
Jerusalem. Thus, God ruins his festivities when his fingers appear out of
thin air and in perfect silence begin drawing Aramaic words on the wall.
Only Belshazzar can see the fingers, and he is instantly horrified. Party’s
over.
He calls his wise men, who cannot read the language because God has written
it in Aramaic. The king’s wife recalls that this language is spoken by
Daniel, whom the king summons. An annoyed Daniel refuses all the king’s
gifts and translates and interprets the writing for him: “Mene, Mene, Tekel
, Parsin;” “Numbered. Numbered. Weighed. Divided.”
Thus, Belshazzar’s days are numbered (the origin of this phrase), he has
been weighed and found wanting; and his kingdom will be divided among the
Medes and Persians. The king rewards Daniel with clothing, jewelry, and
authority, and that very night Belshazzar is killed in his sleep by Persians
invading Babylon, and Darius the Mede crowns himself king.
This entry was the inspiration for this list, in terms of the pure horror,
as good as any movie or ghost story, involving a disembodied hand, the hand
of God no less, appearing out of nowhere and bringing God’s terrifying
justice.
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 3 8 The Massacre of the Innocents
（Matthew 2:16-18）
16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was
furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its
vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he
had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet
Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18 “A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more.”
This story only appears in Matthew. It is not known from any other works
extant to the time, no other Gospels, or Josephus or Tacitus. Assuming it
actually took place, it is unconscionably atrocious. Herod (who gave himself
the epithet “Great”) did not even hesitate to commit genocide, and that
of infants, in order to protect his power. He doesn’t just do it because he
’s angry, or hates competition, but also because he’s a coward, afraid to
lose his throne.
God gets him back, according to the Bible, for such unfathomably despicable
murder. Described in Acts, and corroborated by Josephus, Herod appears to
have contracted Fournier’s gangrene throughout the groin area, combined
with scabies, which putrefied his genitals and swelled his scrotum until
worms burst from it.
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 4 7 The Obliteration of Sodom and Gomorrah
（Genesis 19:1-29）
23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then
the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah —from the Lord
out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain,
destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the
land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he
had stood before the Lord. 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the
land, like smoke from a furnace.
This is the prototype of the “fire and brimstone” aspect of the Bible. We
speak of this event solely in terms of the horror its witnesses must have
experienced. Some analyses have theorized that the description of the actual
catastrophe is a pristine account of a nuclear explosion. It would have to
have been a non-radioactive explosion, of course, since the bones of all
animals and people buried before 1945 did not have Strontium-90 in them.
With the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, NM, radioactive
Strontium-90 is now forever a part of all living organisms and can be found
in your bones.
God may have simply thought the explosion out of thin air, and it may have
been the same power as a nuclear explosion, thus the mushroom cloud that
would have looked like smoke from a furnace. Or, as he always seems to do,
God may abide by his own laws of nature, leaving perpetual room for argument
over his existence.
There is a fairly new theory out there that “the Lord rained down burning
sulfur” indicates a meteor airburst or multiple meteor impacts. Properly
speaking, it is possible that an asteroid did it, in 3123 BC at what is now
Kofels, Austria. The asteroid clipped the top of Gamskogel peak at an angle
of 6 degrees, traveling SE and smashing into Kofels with such speed that the
debris it blasted into the atmosphere traveled in a mushroom cloud all the
way to Sodom and Gomorrah where it rained down on the cities, igniting
everything made of wood, clothing, and flesh, with chunks of flaming rock
large enough to knock down the sandstone buildings.
The Bible is clear that not a single person made it out alive except Lot’s
family, saved by two angels who may have been Michael and Gabriel.
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: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 5 6 The Locusts of the Abyss
（Revelation 9:7-11）
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they
wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8
Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their
wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into
battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails
they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over
them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is
Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
For the Revelation, you have to think in terms of metaphor, because a lot of
the horrors, the signs and wonders throughout the book are obviously meant
to represent other things. The overall story, however is no metaphor.
Something horrible is going to take place, brought on by man’s contemptible
sin, resulting in God’s final fury against it. God and Jesus are not
metaphorical in the book, and neither is Satan. This is what makes the
Revelation of Saint John the Divine, who was possibly the Apostle John, such
a difficult book to interpret. Some events and descriptions seem more
likely metaphorical than literal, while others seem the opposite. John
Calvin famously refused to write a commentary on this book, stating flatly
that he didn’t understand it.
But the infamous Locusts of the End Times, when you think in terms of John
not understanding what he was looking at, could very well be a metaphor for
helicopters. The crowns of gold could be the sun glinting off the rotor
blades or the windshield. The human faces could be the pilots as seen
through the windshield, or the windshield itself could look like two big
eyes. The hair like women’s hair could be what John thought he saw in the
spinning blades in mid-air. The teeth like lion’s teeth could be the
popular “jaws” decal some helicopters and planes feature. Breastplates of
iron is straightforward enough in this context, but the clincher seems to be
“the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses.”
Multiple helicopters flying together sound just like that.
The stingers in their tails is more difficult to explain, but it could be
that John saw missiles and rockets being fired out the front of the
helicopters, and the white smoke trail of each shooting out the back. The
identity of the angel of the Abyss is impossible to ascertain, but the “
jaws” decal some helicopters sport is a popularly American addition. If so,
America may be attacked, by a nuclear missile described immediately before
the locusts as the star of Wormwood, or Bitterness (radioactivity) blazing
like a torch, given the key to shaft of the abyss, out which smoke rises
like a gigantic furnace; and America would then be understood to retaliate
against the aggressor with helicopters.
Or the locusts could be actual locusts made of iron, which is even more
horrifying.
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 6 5 The Ten Plagues of Egypt
（Exodus 7:14-12:29）
When God had had enough of his people being tormented by hard bondage in the
land of Egypt (400 years of it), he sent Moses to prepare the way for him.
Multiple times, God “hardened Pharaoh’s heart” in order to get glory for
himself by continuing his miraculous deeds. First the Nile River turned into
blood. Then out of the river came frogs. Then lice or fleas. Then biting
flies. Then a pestilence that killed the Egyptian livestock. Then boils and
sores. Then hail mixed with fire. Then locusts. Then darkness, and finally
the death of the firstborn male of every Egyptian household.
The Israelites were spared all these plagues. Then Pharaoh let the
Israelites go. He could not do so until after the 10th plague because God
hardened his heart. This kind of messes with free will, doesn’t it? But the
Bible never says God will not interfere with free will. In fact, the Bible
is clear many times that God will break any rule he feels like breaking in
order to accommodate his will.
Scientifically, some of these plagues have plausible explanations. The river
becoming blood and not water may be taken as a metaphor for red algae,
which kills fish. Frogs, however, can escape it by coming onto land. But
there is no water in Egypt except the Nile, and in such a hot, dry climate,
frogs don’t last long. Their carcasses brought lice, gnats, fleas, flies,
and surely mosquitoes. The flies sucked the blood of the livestock. This
eventually transmitted anthrax which killed the livestock, and then infected
the Egyptians with boils and sores. Locust swarms are well known throughout
the Sahara and Middle East. Where there are crops, locusts will eventually
descend in clouds.
To surmise the scientific causes of the hail, darkness, and death of
firstborn is much more difficult, and inevitably so coincidental as to be
hard to believe. The hail and darkness might have been caused by the
Santorini eruption, which would have rained down burning debris like hail
easily as far as Egypt, with ash that blocked out the sunlight. The
Israelites saved their firstborn by smearing lamb’s blood on their
doorsills (a metaphor for #2) and staying indoors.
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 7 4 The Flood of Noah
（Genesis 6:9-8:22）
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12
God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had
corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to
all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am
surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark
of cypress wood.
There’s no fire and brimstone here, but this remains the only time
throughout Earth’s history, according to the Bible, that God has actually
made good his threat to destroy the whole world. He sees that all men
everywhere are only evil all the time, taking to themselves such women as
they please, without sanctity in marriage, without law, given to malice,
sadism, hatred, and violence. So God finds the only righteousness around in
Noah, whom he decides will repopulate the world.
The actual flood did not last for just 40 days and 40 nights. That’s how
long the rain was upon the earth. The Bible is quite clear on point, rather
scary in itself: “the waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of
more than 15 cubits.” If Mount Everest is meant as the highest peak, then
the surface of the water was some 22 and a half feet over its tip. Every
living thing on land died, even the birds. Sea life, of course, had less of
a problem, but then, since the rain was freshwater, it desalinated the salt
water quite substantially, which will kill some ocean species.
Earth was flooded utterly for 150 days before the tops of the mountains
became visible again. Noah and his family and all the animals were inside
the ark for 1 year and 10 days. When they emerged, there was absolutely no
life around them except what came out of the ark. There would have been no
grass and no living trees.
Every culture around the world records a severe flood occurring at about the
same time, somewhere around either 5600 BC, or 2900 BC. Thus, Noah did not
actually pack his ark with 7 pairs of every clean and 1 pair of every
unclean animal in the whole world. It is possible that every ecosystem was
replenished in the way the Bible demonstrates.
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: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 8 3 God’s Judgment against Jerusalem
（Ezekiel 22:17-22）
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: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 9 2 The Passion of Christ
（Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John）
26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed
him over to be crucified.
15 Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had
Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
25 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and
murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
The Passion comprises all of Jesus’s suffering from his terror in
Gethsemane to his death. His dread in Gethsemane of what was to come, which
he knew perfectly well, caused him such distress that he sweat blood. Thus,
his clothing would have been stained red when he was taken before the
Sanhedrin and Pontius Pilate.
The Gospels do not go into detail about the actual flogging because everyone
back then knew what it meant to be flogged on order of the Roman government
. If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” you know what
it meant to be beaten with a Roman flagellum. The flagellum was a cat o’
nine tails made of leather strips with barbell-shaped pieces of metal tied
into them. The flagella used in the film show jagged pieces of metal, but
this is not accurate. These would have skinned the victim alive long before
he could be crucified. Nevertheless, Jesus was beaten until he was an
unrecognizable, bloody mess.
The rounded barbells, each about an inch long and half an inch wide, would
bludgeon into the victim’s skin and rip out of the wounds just enough to be
overwhelmingly excruciating without actually killing the victim. The
standard Jewish sentence was 39 lashes, because the Old Testament states
that 40 lashes is sufficient to kill a man. Thus, Jesus was beaten until he
was almost dead. Then he was forced to carry his own 150 lb cross 2,000 feet
uphill, according to the traditional sites. The historical Roman practice
called for the victim to carry only the cross-beam. There is no reason to
think Jesus was treated any differently.
Then he was crucified naked and left to die. Crucifixion typically causes
death by exposure, not asphyxiation. A person may take a week or more to die
on a cross, in agony all the while. Passers-by were encouraged to torture
the condemned, and would cut off their toes for fun or for keepsakes.
Because of the horrible torture Jesus endured before being nailed to a cross
, he only lasted about 3 hours, from around noon to 3PM, possibly on Friday,
3 April 33 AD. The feet were nailed to the sides of the cross, with the
nails driven through the sides of the heel bones to maximize the pain. The
tops of the feet will not support the body’s weight on a nail driven
through them.
He died from a combination of cardio and pulmonary edema (the blood mixed
with water that flowed from the spear wound), dehydration, exsanguination,
and shock. And he didn’t even do anything wrong.
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 10 1 The Lake of Fire
（Revelation 19:20, 20:10, 14, 15）
Hell is described in only a few spots throughout the Bible as a place of
fire, and all these descriptions are in the New Testament except for
allegorical stories like Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego in the fiery
furnace. In God’s Revelation to John, the final end of the world is
depicted as a war between good and evil. The good are not Christians.
Christians are raptured to Heaven before the Great Tribulation begins,
sparing them the horrors that ensue.
Instead, the good who remain are those who convert to the Christian faith
and die as martyrs at the hands of the Antichrist, also called the beast. He
is assisted by another beast, called the False Prophet, the antithesis of
the Holy Spirit. They are both controlled by Satan. They first come to power
by masterful diplomacy, making the whole love them and unite behind them in
the name of peace, but then, after three and a half years, the Antichrist
shows his true colors, taking over the whole world, something no one has
ever achieved, not Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, or Hitler.
In the end, an actual battle will take place at Har-Megiddo, in northern
Israel. This place name was Hellenized as Armageddon.
The Beast will lead all the world’s armies against Jesus himself, who will
ride on a white horse at the head of an army in the sky of all the
Christians in history. Jesus will speak the truth, and the truth will
destroy everyone below. Then the Beast and the False Prophet will be “
thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.” This means that they
do not die first and then go to Hell; they are thrown into Hell still alive.
John is clear that the rest of the people simply die by the truth of Jesus,
and are then devoured by all the birds of the air. Satan is bound in chains
by a mighty angel, ostensibly Michael, and thrown into the Abyss for 1,000
years. This is not the lake of fire. The Abyss may be another word for Hell,
or it may be the same Abyss out of which come the locusts of #6.
This is interesting: all those killed at Armageddon go to Hell, but not the
lake of fire. This means there must be more to Hell than a single lake of
fire. After the 1,000 years are over, Satan is released, having refused to
change his ways. He once again leads all the world astray against God’s
holy people in the city he loves, and God rains down fire from Heaven and
destroys them. Then Satan is thrown in to the lake of fire where he, the
Beast, and the False Prophet burn forever in eternal torture. This is the
second death.
Then God makes his final judgment for or against everyone who has ever lived
. Some go to Heaven, now called the New Jerusalem, with streets paved in
solid gold, twelve gates made of single pearls, twelve precious-stone
foundations for the 1,400-mile high, 200-foot thick walls. The rest are
thrown into the lake of fire with the Unholy Trinity, and there all the
impenitent sinners burn for eternity. God saves the worst for last: this is
the absolute culmination of all the “hellfire and brimstone,” “the wrath
of God,” throughout the Bible.
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
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发帖数: 2518 | 11 恩，铲除基督邪教，人人有责
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: 1 The Lake of Fire
: （Revelation 19:20, 20:10, 14, 15）
: Hell is described in only a few spots throughout the Bible as a place of
: fire, and all these descriptions are in the New Testament except for
: allegorical stories like Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego in the fiery
: furnace. In God’s Revelation to John, the final end of the world is
: depicted as a war between good and evil. The good are not Christians.
: Christians are raptured to Heaven before the Great Tribulation begins,
: sparing them the horrors that ensue.
: Instead, the good who remain are those who convert to the Christian faith
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发帖数: 38600 | 12 and of course, god loves you.
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: 10 The Torment of Job
: （Job, chapters 1, 2, and 38-42）
: The entire Book of Job is one of the most uncomfortable lessons the Bible
: teaches, namely that God is in charge, what he says goes, and there is
: absolutely nothing any one of us can do about it, that we have precisely
: zero right to question him, zero authority, zero power to stop him.
: In this case, God takes it away on a bet with Satan (“Satan” is Hebrew for
: “Accuser,” similar to prosecuting attorney), who walks into Heaven one
: day with the other angels. This is after the war in Heaven. It is God who
: baits Satan into a bet God knows he will win, that Job is the finest,
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 13
【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: and of course, god loves you.
:
: for
| J*****3
发帖数: 4298 | 14 其中一个图太恶心了，本来我正强迫自己吃一点鸡肉，感谢此帖，本周都只吃草和鸡蛋
了。汗～～ | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 15 对不起啦。 现实是残酷地， 地狱是可怕地， 鸡是可怜地， 鸡蛋是可吃地 ：）
【在 J*****3 的大作中提到】
: 其中一个图太恶心了，本来我正强迫自己吃一点鸡肉，感谢此帖，本周都只吃草和鸡蛋
: 了。汗～～
| E******u
发帖数: 3920 | | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 17 恶心是心里反应，丑陋是现实描述。
“丑陋”的图是根据圣经的描述画的。
【在 E******u 的大作中提到】
: 你这恶心的图原帖里没有
: http://listverse.com/2012/06/23/top-10-horrifying-moments-in-th
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