Bob Felts wrote:

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> The Lord of the Rings: A Source-Criticism Analysis
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"There is neither Elf nor dwarf in Christ!"

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>He is so just that you nor I have any idea just how just He really is.
>Obviously that He would decree in eternity past that He would die for
>our sins illustrates that our appreciation of His holy nature is
>impoverished,

God never said this of himself. Afterall, God cannot die. Jesus- the
SON OF GOD- most certainly died. You obviously do not understand the
ransom sacrifice very well.

> Not only that, but we read that Lazarus was carried off to Abraham's
> bosom. Are all those gaining salvation reclining on Abraham's bosom?
>You need to take a Jewish studies course.

You need to stop being so arrogant. Your lack of humility is a major
reason you don't know the Bible from a TV Guide.

I wrote:

> Further note that this is the only place in the Scriptures where
> consciousness and suffering are associated with Hades.

You wrote:

>This only reveals that you do not know your bible. Note that the
>Antichrist and the false prophet are both men and they are thrown into
>the Lake of Fire and a 1000 yrs later when Satan is cast into the LoF,
>the scriptures (Rev 20) reveal that these two men are still alive and
>still being tormented.

satan was thrown into the "abyss" which is not hades. After the
thousand years he will be destroyed by being thron into the symbolic
"lake of fire"

"the lake of fire means the second death" (Rev. 20:14) Notice that
"death and hades" were thrown into this lake of fire. How could "hell"
be thrown into "hell"?
The "lake of fire" merely symbolizes eternal destruction.

>You presume that the holy indignation of God
>can be quenched by a finite death?

if you knew the "only true God" the "God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ" (John 17:3; Eph. 1:3) than you would know that the punishment
is nonexistance not your mythical pagan "hell" doctrine. For as long as
you blindly and falsely accuse YHWH of being a "trinity" you will never
truly know him

> Nor will it do
> to claim that before Jesus' death Hades had two compartments,
>No, it has more. For Tartarus is also there.

first of all the idea that Hades had two "compartments" is a myth so
you are merely adding to the myth.

>And what of Gehenna? It is
>clearly identified as a place of punishment for the wicked. What do
>you do with it?

This name appears 12 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures, and
whereas many translators take the liberty to render it by the word
"hell," a n