[The Harp of God by J. F. Rutherford]@TWC D-Link bookThe Harp of God CHAPTER III 37/50
But it would not be an everlasting conscious torture.
God plainly declared: "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23), and not eternal torture. [82]Having fixed this penalty, God could not change it afterward, because God could not be inconsistent; he cannot deny himself. (2 Timothy 2:13) It was by the disobedience of one man that sin came into the world and death as the result of sin; so death has been the penalty upon all mankind.
(Romans 5:12) And this will continue until God's due time to awaken them out of death and give all an opportunity for life; and this we will discuss later.
"The Lord preserveth them that love him, but all the wicked will he destroy." (Psalm 145:20) The Apostle plainly says that all the wicked shall be punished with an everlasting destruction .-- 2 Thessalonians 1:9. [83]But do not the wicked go to hell? [84]It is true that all who have died from Adam until now have gone to hell.
But hell does not mean a place of conscious torture.
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