Bird's Nest

Paradise, where you're carried by angels to sit on Father Abraham's lap (you'll immediately recognize him though you've never met, but unfortunately you'll have to get up as soon as the next person arrives). Paradise, where you can hear terribly pathetic, but remarkably articulate, conversations the lost who are burning in fire have with Father Abraham (most likely someone you know from your area who didn't do you right and died about the same time). Paradise, where you can hear the screams and witness the agony of millions of others in the fire (excellent hearing to be able to understand the individual articulate conversations over the normally deafening din across a great gulf). Paradise, where should the horrific sights and sounds cause you to feel compassion and be willing to take a drop of water to the tormented damned or go back and witness to their living loved ones, you won't have to be guilt ridden because it's simply not possible (you can know ...

In the foothills of the Blue Ridge Our peculiar Brother Bird Took some time to do some writing Which is what he most preferred. Willie Waver was now married, Farren Brimstone done and gone, And the Big Feud just a mem’ry When the “rich man” came along. Well, the rich man was a poor man, Or at least he so appeared, Clothed in rags all singed and blackened With a long white ashen beard. And he smelled of burning sulfur, And he reeked of soot and smoke, With his face and arms all blistered, Wildly coughing when he spoke. And he said he was the rich man Who was sent back from the dead, Just to warn of endless torment -  Well, at least that’s what he said. And he stood out in the graveyard, Shrieking madly with each breath, “You will burn in Hell forever!” Scaring some folks half to death. But most people thought ‘im crazy, While some others thought ‘im true, And a few were pretty shook up, And not sure just what to do. That’s when Sheriff Roscoe Ramey Hauled the rich man off to jail, A...

Below is a list I made as I was making a Berean search to see whether endless torment was so. Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. God “Only hath immortality ” – I Tim. 6:16 eternal life is the gracious “ gift of God,” not the inherent possession of an immortal soul – John 10:28; Rom. 6:23; 1 John 15:11, 12 God is “able to destroy both soul and body in hell ” – Matt. 10:28 “All in whose nostrils was the breath of life … died.   And every living substance was destroyed … both man, and cattle, and the creeping things” – Genesis 7:22, 23 “The wages of sin is death” – Rom. 6:23 “The soul that sinneth, it shall die ” – Ezk. 18:20 The soul can be “ delivered from death ” – Psalm 33:19; 56:13; 116:8. “He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death” – James 5:20 “Sin, when it is finished, bringeth...