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Originally Posted by manna-man
Everything not redeemable is cast into the LOF.
I have a hard time believing fallen angels will be tormented as well. If anything they are tormented now day and night knowing their doom. You see, even they value life.
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Not gonna argue with you on this point of view, as I think there is enough wiggle room to allow our differences in opinion.
Nonetheless, I will try weakly to counter your point, using Timotheist logic:
1) Spirit is life. In fact spirit is God Himself dispensed into us for our animation (Gen 1:26). (See what I did there?) Spirit, being of God Himself, is eternal.
2) Jesus did not warn us to fear Him who can destroy the soul and
spirit in Gehenna, because spirit cannot be killed.
3) When we die, our spirit "returns to Him who gave it". See the stoning of Stephen for one of many examples of this concept.
4) Angels are "spirits". Ergo, my reasoning suggests, they have eternal life and cannot be killed. Unless God can somehow remove His Spirit from a spirit, the angels can no sooner be killed than God can kill Himself.
When we are resurrected unto eternal life, we will be "like the angels", and like them, we will have eternal life. Not as "souls" but as "spirits", being in God's image and likeness.
(I shudder to think of what might happen if we choose to rebel after our resurrection... because "it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”)