Sentence examples for everlasting punishment from inspiring English sources
Christians have "concocted an absolutely offensive doctrine of everlasting punishment".
As long as she was alive, her mother's death was an everlasting punishment to her.
As early as his 1949 Los Angeles campaign, when he'd emerged from his battle with doubt, he had decided that Hell was not necessarily a bottomless pit of fire and brimstone but the everlasting punishment of "separation from God".
But the claim that we are born guilty is another matter, as is the claim that we are all deserving of everlasting punishment on account of having inherited certain defects or deficiencies.
For the Augustinians, then, the bottom line is that, even as our Creator, God owes us nothing in our present condition because, thanks to original sin, we come into this earthly life already deserving nothing but everlasting punishment in hell as a just recompense for original sin.
Theists who accept the traditional idea of everlasting punishment, or even the idea of an everlasting separation from God, must either reject the idea that God wills or desires to save all humans and thus desires to reconcile them all to himself (proposition (1)) or reject the idea that God will successfully accomplish his will and satisfy his own desire in this matter (proposition (2)).
Others not sharing his beliefs would be tortured eternally "over the everlasting burnings of Hell," and this, he figured, was punishment enough.
We rely on stiff punishment that is as permanent and undiluted for good behavior as the everlasting nature of the crimes for which they were imposed.
Cleaving the everlasting skies,.
