[KaosTheory]

This really is a deep subject but I think the cut and pasted stuff I left speaks for itself.



The OT was written by living people not dead people living in "Hell" with first hand experience of their "Smoke of Torment".



What is "Smoke of Torment" anyway? There is so much figurative language to sift through. Not only that, it was written in Hebrew and translated. How do you effectively translate figurative language. Try translating figurative expressions from English to Spanish and see if the exact meaning is carried over.



Here is the way I understand it in a nutshell. Whether it is right or wrong.....who knows?



If we go back to before the fall and picture the human race as being a branch on the tree of creation connected to the Creator and receiving it's lifeforce directly from Him, then we picture the branch being cut off because of Adam's sin. I would imagine that the branch would wither and die after a period of time. That is unless, someone who was without sin would step up and die in it's place and persuade the Creator to allow the branch to be grafted back on to the main tree.



Why would a loving Father force his own creation to live forever in torment for the sins of their ancestors yet? I was created with original sin. I am a sinner because I am created that way. I am cut off already. I am cut off from "knowledge" even. Jesus even says so.



The Father would have to see the torment constantly without cease. Why would He do this? The only thing that makes sense is that separtation from the lifeforce of the main tree produces permanent death after a period of time.



Not only that....what do any of us know of eternity? We can only imagine.