"lake of fire" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} lake of fire
  1. (Christianity) A place where evildoers are sent in the afterlife; hell. Wikipedia link: lake of fire Categories (topical): Christianity
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          "text": "These thousand years are followed by the last times of the world, the letting loose of Satan, who gathers together Gog and Magog, and is thrown to the beast and false prophet in the lake of fire. Now Satan's accusing the saints in heaven, his rage on earth, his imprisonment in the abyss, his seducing Gog and Magog, and being cast into the lake of fire, evidently succeed each other.",
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          "ref": "1992 February 23, Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero, “Accidents of History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-25, Section 6, page 38:",
          "text": "The Garlands and the other missionaries have been teaching Ataiba about Papaguatsu -- God, the Great Father; about a place called God's camp, where the believers go when they die; about the other place -- the eternal lake of fire.[…]\n\"I'm not scared of anyone, just the Lord,\" Ataiba says afterward. \"If I don't obey Him, He'll punish me. This they have shown me from the Bible.\" He looks up, squinting hard, pondering this new world view. \"In the jungle, I was bad. No one had shown me the Bible, so I shot at people with arrows. Now, the Son of the Chief has pardoned me. I want God to take me to the sky. I don't want to suffer in the lake of fire.\"",
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          "text": "\"My concern here is the temptation to make hell a state of mind, to psychologize hell,\" said Mohler. \"As attractive as that may be to the modern mind, that is not the hell of the Bible. Jesus himself spoke of hell as a lake of fire, where the worms would not die and the fire would not be quenched. It's all very graphic.\"",
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