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Hellbent in Creepy Clown World Monday, August 8, 2022.

Introduction

Conservatives have taken to calling the cultural disintegration that we see happening

all around us by the name of Clown World.

This is apt enough, but given the vindictive and malicious nature of the absurdities being

thrown out as daily, I think it is necessary to add an adjective.

I think we need to start thinking of it as Creepy Clown World.

And as with everything creepy, there's an implicit promise of more to come.

They just wanted to get creepier.

Mirror Hellfire

A few years ago, I wrote a brief introduction to the subject of hell and damnation.

While my central purpose in this post is to address a corollary to all of this, a quick

review is still necessary.

This should present us with three vivid pictures of the final state of damnation.

The first and the one most commonly remembered is that of eternal torment, Matthew 18-8.

Everyone knows that hell is a place of torment where the fire is everlasting.

The second is that of utter isolation, the outer darkness, Matthew 8-12.

And last, the picture of personal disintegration or destruction, Matthew 7-13.

As sinners who always love to slide off the point, we have no business picking or

preferring one of these pictures over the others.

Our task is to hold to them all and to seek to understand each in light of the others.

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