Listening to Bart on NPR, he claims Jesus does not say that man will go to eternal hell. Talks about a deep sleep when the breath leaves the body. Reading Matthew below, I’m at a loss how Bart, for whom I have immense respect, could state such a thing.
“Then he [god] will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.“
Matthew 25:41 NIV
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Listening to Bart on NPR, he claims Jesus does not say that man will go to eternal hell. Talks about a deep sleep when the breath leaves the body. Reading Matthew below, I’m at a loss how Bart, for whom I have immense respect, could state such a thing.
It’s complicated. Jewish apocalypticists tended not to believe in a bodiless existence. They expected a bodily resurrection at the Parousia. What they thought about a hypothetical intermediate state, if any, is frequently confusing.
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