So he turned from talking to the Pharisees to his disciples to whom he did not need to hide the truth from.

He gave them the meanings of the parables.

So he said there was a certain rich man.

This is not a parable.

How does the Bible use the word death?

We know that Adam and Eve didn't drop over dead when they ate of that fruit.

In the parable of the prodigal son, my son was dead and now he's alive.

When we die physically, it's a separation from our soul and spirit from our body.

So if hell is the worst place possible because of the separation from us and God, that's how

the word is used. And we shouldn't jump to the conclusion that it just means we're gone.

It's a separation.

And if I hand offend thee cut it off, it is better for thee to enter into life maim than having

two hands to go into hell into the fire that shall never be quenched where their worm

dieth not.

And the fire is not quench.

He's citing Isaiah 66.

And then he says it again, if thy foot offend me, cut it off.

Finally, third time, if thy eye offending, pluck it out.

But he chose to say it three times to make the point.

There are some that believe that it's possible that those that end up in the lake of fire

over time degenerate into like a worm.

I don't believe in annihilation, but there's a possibility that we degenerate into nothing left

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