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Grazed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Sorry I’m late, but I don’t think Matthew 25:41 suggests Jesus believed in eternal punishment. It’s a very specific theology that we know very well today, so it’s easy to read it into the text. But that verse says that the fire is eternal, not necessarily the suffering.

It’s pretty likely that Jesus believed in the idea of the “second death”(not eternal).

“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matt 10:28)

Its more likely that Jesus’s understanding of hell is far from the modern Christian theology.

Now about human hierarchy:

Off the top of my head, we have:

I’m sure I can find more when I have some time.

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