The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Kingdom of God

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]but if there will be great weeping and gnashing of teeth in Hell, what are they weeping and gnashing about? Isn't that usually a description of remorse and repentance?</font><hr></blockquote><p>Perhaps a real life illustration will help you to see that this "weeping and gnashing of teeth" has nothing to do with remorse and/or repentance. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img]<br><br>Have you ever punished any of your children for something they did that was wrong? Perhaps you confined them to their room or prevented them from going some place they were looking forward to? Did they ever [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grovel.gif" alt="grovel" title="grovel[/img], protest, stomp their feet, , etc., etc.? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/laugh.gif" alt="laugh" title="laugh[/img] Was this protest an expression of "remorse or repentance" for the rule they broke or was it an expression of their dislike of the punishment they had to bear? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/wink.gif" alt="wink" title="wink[/img] I've had the "privilege" of visiting many men in prison and invariably they were discontent over their incarceration and expressed their feelings quite verbosely. But rarely did I ever hear one say that they were content with their being imprisoned because their punishment was their due and they were remorseful over the crime they committed.<br><br>In His Grace,