Originally posted by FabianFnas
I think sinners separated from God for eternity are where they chose and want to be - where they have
NOTHING to do with God.
I furthermore that it is God's responsibility to express in words which cannot be misunderstood, that such a destiny will not be an enjoyable one.
If you had children who you wanted to understand that Sing Sing Prison is a place that they should avoid at all costs, you might describe it in terms of the worst possible circumstances of the place.
Revelation 14 could serve that function - to describe the
worst circumstances of that destiny. I would not be too dogmatic about this. But I only suspect that this is so.
G.H. Lang wrote the following in his book
The Last Assize [my bolding and spacing]
concerning this passage:
" ... whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of eternal sin." (Mark 3:29)
"Therefore I say to you, Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the one to come." (Matt. 12:31,32)
" Scripture speaks of various seasons of Divine judgment. The Lord judges His people in this life, as I Cor. 11.31,32; i Pet. 4.17. At His return to the earth He will judge Israel and the nations then living" Joel 3.11-16; Matt. 25.31-46. At the end of the age to follow this, the Millennial era, there will be a final assize of the universe. During this age and that age to follow mercy is available, but if it be not sought and found within this time limit there is no hint that it will be so thereafter. Our Lord's words quoted imply this; for it were to little purpose to specify this age and the next as the time for forgiveness if actually it will be attainable in later ages. Surely His words are clear in their assertion that for the persons and sin in question there never will be forgiveness, now or hereafter. ...
Observe why there is no forgiveness of the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. This blasphemy constitutes "eternal sin " not, be it well noted, a sin eternal in its consequences: that is involved, but it is not all that our Lord said. He states that the sin itself is eternal, the blasphemer is "guilty of eternal sin." This sin is as much a state as an act; the outward blasphemy indicates an inward state of heart which has become unchangeable in its opposition to God."
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The Last Assize, G.H. Lang, Conley & Schoettle, pgs. 17,18 ]
The purpose of my including this comment is not to give an explanation of what blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is, which is controversial. My purpose is to demonstrate the Jesus Christ taught that there is a TERMINAL point to God's toleration and willingness to forgive.
It is also to demonstrate the a soul may be "frozen" in a state of perpetual sinning. And perpetual wrath upon that state seems to be the destiny. They go with their leader Satan and co-share his desired fate, to have nothing to do with God, forever.