One of my brightest former students who now pastors in Wisconsin Facebooked me (that really ought not to be a verb any more than ‘friend’ is a verb) asking about Matthew 10.28. Doesn’t this text, he asked, favor the view of eternal torment? The text literally reads “Do not fear those who can kill the body but cannot kill the psuchen. Fear rather the one who is able to destroy (apolesai) both body and psuchen in Gehenna.” Here we have yet another stern saying of Jesus about Gehenna. Jesus is making a contrast between what human beings can do to a person (physically kill them) and someone else who can destroy both body and human spirit.
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