God said plainly that burning His children endlessly never entered His heart. So what does His fire actually do? These articles dismantle eternal torment passage by passage and recover what "eternal," "sheep and goats," and refining fire truly mean.
God said three times that burning His children in fire never entered His heart. The doctrine you were taught says He does it forever. One of them is wrong.
The scariest verse in the Bible turns on two Greek words. One means age, not forever. The other means pruning, not torture. The sentence was never what you thought.
He called them snakes. He warned them of hell. He declared their house desolate. Four verses later He told them they would bless His name. Same speech. Same men.