REASON #23
If we must put on immortality to live for all time to come, then we will have SPIRIT BODIES which cannot feel pain so if they have to live in Hell, they thus would not feel it!
If we live forever in conscious torment in Hell we would not be able to feel the pain it is supposed to bring! If we were still human, we’d last about 60 seconds and then be dead from then on.
So, we’d be there in the Lake of Fire and never feel a twinge of pain.
Revelation 21:4 3 ‘And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.’
God only has immortality. I am still mortal... subject to death. If I get myself into a fire, I am likely to burn up, that is be burnt to death. God cannot be burned because he is not flesh and blood. Those finally born ‘of the Spirit’ will have put on immortality that we do not yet have and will not have until God clothes us with it.
Notice 1 Corinthians 15:51-57: 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Spirits cannot be burned or feel pain. That Spirit life is pain-free and powerful compared to this fleshly life we now live.
Remember Jesus’ words in John 3: 31-36 ‘He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven is above all.
32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony. 33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true.
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.’
If a person does not have life, he is dead. The life Jesus referred to is permanent life. Our temporary life is of the earth, earthly. The wrath of God is on the ones who do not and will not put their trust in Jesus.
‘And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.’ (Matthew 25:46) The unconscious state of death is permanent and there will be no subsequent resurrection from it. The wicked shall NOT see life. That is the word of the Lord.