What is the Lake of Fire?

[UniversalSceptic]

It is commonly believe that it is a fire that will torture body and soul for all eternity, but what is it in the context of Universal Salvation.

[Seth]

There's a really good conversation about that here: http://tentmaker.org/forum/lounge/can-a-believer-go-to-the-lake-of-fire/

[Tom]

It is commonly believe that it is a fire that will torture body and soul for all eternity, but what is it in the context of Universal Salvation.

Scripture says the lake of fire is the second death. The dead will not be conscious to be tortured, and they won't be dead for all eternity because death will be abolished at the consummation of the eons when God will be all in all.

"And death and the unseen were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death--the lake of fire." (Revelation 20:14)

"The living know that they shall die, But the dead know nothing whatsoever." (Ecclesiastes 9:5)

http://www.saviourofall.org/charts/ChartOfJudgments.html