Acts17:28KJV"For in him we live, and move, and have our being;..."
The doctrine of eternal conscious torment of the irreformably wicked has the necessary effect of making JEHOVAH God the main accessory to eternal corruption.
As the quoted text shows there is no life(consciousness or motion) apart from God. Thus the eternal life that would make the eternal corruption suggested by this doctrine possible could only come from him. The scriptures assure us that JEHOVAH'S holiness precludes his perpetual enabling of sin.
Indeed death is the end of sin.
James1:15KJV"Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16Do not err, my beloved brethren"
Note that death is the finish of sin. There is no sin after death.
Romans6:7KJV"For he that is dead is freed from sin"
Thus there is no intermediate state between death and resurrection in which the wicked continue to sin. For the wicked to continue sinning perpetually JEHOVAH would need to resurrect them to perpetual life a promise only held out to the righteous.
Romans7,8KJV" them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
The purpose of God's divine wrath is to bring a permanent end to wrongdoing and wrong desires not to perpetually enable them.
John2:17KJV"And the world passeth away and the LUST thereof ;BUT he that doeth the will of God abideth forever."
Note the contrast the wrong desires characteristic of the present civilisation are as transient as the present age itself ,but the one accepting JEHOVAH'S help in being transformed inwardly so as to become the sort fit for a place in his new world will exists perpetually.
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