Does God annihilate the souls of the damned?

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Well i would care to perceive such a title, as an opportunity to express the hope that like many other near conflicting verses in the bible that there are, that for one, there will be no night or day,and that`s not to cast doubt upon those that seemingly suffer there.

That to be without your true father who would still love them would be pain enough,unless of cause they for whatever unfounded apocryphal reason they had,which was just to enjoy to hate and destroy,then with God being so full of mercy and knowledge,hopefully it might not be as bad as our distorted perception off hell could be.

Lets hope a!!
 
It’s the other way around.

Damned souls prefer annihilation from God.
 
No. God loves each human person so much that He created each with an immortal soul. He then calls each one to Himself. Those called then have the freedon to accept of reject God. That acceptance or rejection has no impact on the immortal nature of the human soul, as that has already been given.
 
No souls don’t die, God loves all his children and want us to be one in Him,
If we decide not to accept that love for whatever reason our suffering will be the experience of complete loneliness. That is my opinion! Peace, Carlan
 
It depends on what you mean by annihilate. No, souls are not destroyed, disintigrated, or “deleted” as far as I know.
 
Barbkw said:
It’s the other way around.

Damned souls prefer annihilation from God.
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Exactly! The doctrine of annihilation was dreamed up by those who have a misunderstanding of hell as a punishment by a vengeful God. Annihilation is preferable to eternal suffering so that is what they prefer to believe. The truth is that those who enter hell, choose hell, rather than heaven. I am sure that hell is full of those who didn’t believe it existed.
 
No.

That sounds like a doctrine from a Jehovah’s Witness or Seventh Day Adventist. Heresies from the 1800s.
 
Tomster said:
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Jn.3:
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

What does perish mean?
 
it is hard for me to imagine a loving God keeping a collection of souls in torment for all eternity. I have wondered if it is all destroyed. I’ve even wondered about a “forgotten dead”.
**Psalm 88
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4 I am counted with those who go down to the pit;
I am like a man who has no strength,
5 Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And who are cut off from Your hand.**
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Or maybe that is what you Catholics call purgatory.
 
Memories fade over time, and the people in heaven will be in a state of eternal happiness just from being near God (what the soul was designed for) that I don’t think anyone will think about the souls in hell. It’s a sad loss but at the same time they chose hell. Hell is to spend eternity away from God, and that’s what they wanted.
 
There is in Scripture something call “the second death” when the damned are thrown into the Lake of Fire.

But if it is annilation of the soul, I don’t think so.

Seems to be that creation cannot be un-created, sorto like saying God is dead.
 
Auriel said:
it is hard for me to imagine a loving God keeping a collection of souls in torment for all eternity. I have wondered if it is all destroyed. I’ve even wondered about a “forgotten dead”.
Or maybe that is what you Catholics call purgatory.
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God never keeps anyone anywhere! Those who are in hell choose to enjoy their independence and endure the misery of being isolated from God. If hell had no compensations it would be vacant… 🙂
 
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice: If any man shall adore the beast and his image and receive his character in his forehead or in his hand, He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath: and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torments, shall ascend up for ever and ever: neither have they rest day nor night, who have adored the beast and his image and whoever receiveth the character of his name.
(Revelation 14:9-11 DRB)

If the smoke of their torments will ascend forever and ever and if they have no rest day or night then how can one say that their souls are annihilated?
 
Auriel said:
it is hard for me to imagine a loving God keeping a collection of souls in torment for all eternity. I have wondered if it is all destroyed. I’ve even wondered about a “forgotten dead”.

Psalm 88

4 I am counted with those who go down to the pit;
I am like a man who has no strength,
5 Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And who are cut off from Your hand.

Or maybe that is what you Catholics call purgatory

Or maybe that is what you Catholics call purgatory.
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:hmmm: Well, Purgagory is the place where we get God to put it all together for us so that we are able to think purely in Him. Get rid of all that fussy dross that is still left hanging after forgiveness! :yup:
Peace, Carlan
 
Auriel said:
it is hard for me to imagine a loving God keeping a collection of souls in torment for all eternity. I have wondered if it is all destroyed. I’ve even wondered about a “forgotten dead”.

Or maybe that is what you Catholics call purgatory.
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Its hard to accept I agree. And I am sure its hard for God to accept also. But the bottom line is we have free will to accept God and his love or reject God and his love.

If he did not let us choose what we wanted and forced all to accept him then he could not give us free will. It would have to be taken from us.

But we have a God that loves us so much that he lets us choose him. The love that we give to God has to be given freely from us. But if we choose to reject him and choose to hate him how do you think he feels. Do you not see how hurt he is?

But the bottom line is God gave us everything we need, all we have to do is ask. But many do not want what God has to offer. And how can we blame God when People choose evil over good. Death over life. Darkness over light.

It amazes me how when People choose their own fate it is turned around and blamed on God.

It is like saying I don’t want to get up at 5am and work until 6pm I want to sleep in and not work. But I want the same paycheck of the person who got up and worked even though they wanted to sleep in just as bad as the other person.

Well that is the same thing you are saying to God. You are saying what kind of God would not take me if I choose to steal, lie, cheat, kill, hurt people. I deserve heaven just like those People who had the same opportunity to steal cheat lie etc. You want the Paycheck. See what I am saying?
 
Richard_Kastner said:
Jn.3:
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

What does perish mean?
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Perish means death of the soul. Death of the soul is the same as the tree that bares no good fruit. If a tree bares no good fruit what Good is it.

So you either feed the Tree or you dig up the tree and burn it in the fire so it does not kill the rest of the trees.

That is what we are like. We can be a good tree and produce good fruit, or we can just sit there and rot and die.

So if you are in the state of mortal sin you are a vine on that tree that is dead You either repent and rid yourself of the sin, which would be cutting off the dead limb, Or you continue to sin and live in sin and in darkness for the rest of your life. So the tree either lives or it dies. God gave you that free gift of the Sacrament of Penance to rid yourself of the sin. or you let yourself like the tree die. You have the choice to live or die. God by his cross gave you the free will to choose.
 
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