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I always kind of shuddered at the “someday every knee will bow, someday every tongue will confess” songs and references, because of this “I can’t wait until you are writhing in a lake of fire” vibe.
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I mean, if the concept that unbelievers will suffer incredibly gives you “comfort,” I have to ask what exactly the “good news” is to you.
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Jesus: Someday you will be with Me in Heaven. Most of crowd: Hallelujah! Jesus: Certain others will be in Hell Joel Berry: WOOOOOOO all right SUCK ETERNAL FIRE, OTHERS [pumps fist Arsenio audience style] WOOF WOOF WOOF Jesus: . . .
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Jehovah's Witnesses have developed a version of this recently where there's no hell but most people will still be slaughtered in Armageddon, and then all the "righteous" people left on Earth will spend the next several years cleaning up the bodies(???) and they fantasize about it every single day
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Sounds like a really fantastic ideology. Very sane.
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Yes, it's all very coherent and definitely makes people want to live alongside them for eternity