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What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid! Rom. 6:15
Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Rev. 22:14
Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. Matthew 24:11-13
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Revelation 14:12
The Great Controversy (1888), page 655,
Chapter Title: Chapter XLI - Desolation of the Earth
Ministers and people see that they have not sustained the right relation to God. They see that they have rebelled against the Author of all just and righteous law. The setting aside of the divine precepts gave rise to thousands of springs of evil, discord, hatred, iniquity, until the earth became one vast field of strife, one sink of corruption. This is the view that now appears to those who rejected truth and chose to cherish error. No language can express the longing which the disobedient and disloyal feel for that which they have lost forever,--eternal life. Men whom the world has worshiped for their talents and eloquence now see these things in their true light. They realize what they have forfeited by transgression, and they fall at the feet of those whose fidelity they have despised and derided, and confess that God has loved them.
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Following are some important scripture and text on the state of the dead, and why the lake of fire is not a place of eternal torment, but a second death with eternal consequence:
[...] He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
who only hath immortality [...] 1 Timothy 6:15,16
"For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Also their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun." Ecclesiastes 9:5-6
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. John 11:11
Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. John 11:14
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. John 11:24
"But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished." Revelation 20:5
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." - Romans 6:23
"Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice
and shall come forth -- they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." John 5:28,29
They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. Revelation 20:9
...therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee [Satan], and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. Ezek. 28:18-19
Say unto them: `As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?' - Ezekiel 33:11
Ellen G. White Estate
The Great Controversy (1888), page 58, paragraph 2
Chapter Title: Chapter III - The Apostasy
The advancing centuries witnessed a constant increase of error in the doctrines put forth from Rome. Even before the establishment of the papacy, the teachings of heathen philosophers had received attention and exerted an influence in the church. Many who professed conversion still clung to the tenets of their pagan philosophy, and not only continued its study themselves, but urged it upon others as a means of extending their influence among the heathen. Serious errors were thus introduced into the Christian faith. Prominent among these was the belief in man's natural immortality and his consciousness in death. This doctrine laid the foundation upon which Rome established the invocation of saints and the adoration of the virgin Mary. From this sprung also the heresy of eternal torment for the finally impenitent, which was early incorporated into the papal faith.
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