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Originally Posted by bearbear
There are different levels of hell which Jesus alludes to in Luke 10:
12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
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While I think, like Igzy, that you are taking this line of reasoning to a place that it was not meant to go, when I read this particular passage, I can only make sense of it in terms of comparing living through punishment with simply being destroyed. And if that is the case, then there is hope of exiting the punishment on the other side.
If, like Tyre and Sidon, or Sodom, there is complete destruction, then it is simply over. But if there is punishment that you have to "live" through, then I understand. But only if that is not just a more brutal pre-destruction.
And when you speak of Capernaum, Bethsaida, and Chorazin, those are the ones who are going to receive the worst punishment. But I can only assume that it is referring to the surprise in discovering that you had hitched your cart to the wrong horse. The trolley line you were on wasn't going to Heavenly Heights Lane, but Hotter-than-Hell alley. And the walls were too heat resistant to realize it in time to get off the trolley. Those cities were evidently resting on their being within Judea as being their ticket to God. They failed to actually follow God. Not sure that this is the same as actually believing and then(somewhat) falling away. Could be. But on what do you rest your certainty?