eternal punishment in the old testament?

Question

why do some wake up to an everlasting shame, while others awaken to everlasting torture?
different degrees of everlasting punishment?

Answer 1

You should ask God, but, if you are interested in reading something I suggest the series of books "Legends of the Jews" by Louis Ginsberg. You can download them for free from Gutenberg.net.

Interesting reading.

PS: Dante's inferno is good also, and it is a classic so you get brownie points when trying to pick up Lit majors.

Answer 2

You should read Dante's Inferno. It's really interesting. Shows the 9 circles of Hell and the different punishments received for all the different sins. Pretty cool book. The entire thing is called The Divine Comedy.

Answer 3

God's revelation is progressive, like school. The Old Testament is elementary school. The New Testament is college. Eternal punishment is taught more clearly in the New Testament than in the Old Testament. Read Luke.

Answer 4

I was in New York City and I saw a big crowd down the street. Some people were walking toward us and tearing up pieces of paper and throwing them in the trash. I asked one of the people what he had torn up and he said it was a check for $100,000 from some crackpot handing out checks to anyone for any amount if they had a reason for it...

The "crackpot" had gone inside before we got to the place where he had been handing out checks...

I later saw on the news that some Billionaire had been giving away money.. the checks were all good...

I wonder how the people that tore them up and threw them away felt?...

Now think of the gifts that Heavenly Father has promised us.. and how you'll feel when you find out they are real.

Answer 5

Read the book of Ric Warren. You may find the answer. if not, try another

Answer 6

one for men,

one for women,

another for "unbelievers and uncircumcised"

it's not literal, just symbolic and hardly original