1. If the Bible says, “the wages of sin is death” why does most of Christianity teach that it is eternal torture?
2. What does it mean to, “hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord” (1 Cor. 5:5)?
3. What does it mean, “It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames” (1 Cor 3:15)?
4. Are we sure we understand the meaning of the “lake of fire” and “brimstone”? Why is the word used for the lake of fire the same used for the Holy Spirit fire? Why is the word “brimstone” the word for sulfur, a cleansing/healing agent?
#4442 πῦρ (pýr or “pur”) = fire. In Scripture, fire is often used figuratively – like with the “fire of God” which transforms all it touches into light and likeness with itself.
5. Do we see in the Story of God that death and destruction have the last word, or life, restoration and resurrection? (See the prophecy of the restoration of Sodom in Ezek. 16 once destroyed by fire).
6. When God has “utterly destroyed” something or someone, has that ever been a problem for the God of resurrection and life? “I kill and I make alive says the Lord” (Deut 32:39). “I am the resurrection and the life; though he were dead yet will he live” (John 11:25).