The Lord Will Not Cast Off Forever!!

[Tim B]

Lamentations 3:31
31For the Lord will not cast off forever!

Doesn't this single handedly knock out both the idea of eternal torment AND annihilation? Both would end up in human beings being cast off forever (either eternally suffering away from God, or eternally obliterated from God)!

[WhiteWings]

For ever = age/age-during -> olam/olawm

There are many verses supporting the one you quoted.


Psalm 30:5 His anger lasts only a moment. His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may last for the night, but there is a song of joy in the morning.

This is not only for this lifetime... Malachi 3:6  "I the LORD do not change....
Isaiah 54:7 For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

Isaiah 54:8 In a little wrath I turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon thee, saith the Lord that delivers thee.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5  Love is patient and kind. ...., and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.


Lamentations 3:31-32  For the Lord will not cast off for ever: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Micah 7:18-19 .... he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy....He will again have pity on us


2 Samuel 14:14 .... But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored. => and He fails at that?

[jabcat]

 Very good, guys.  :gthumbsup: