Dear editor:
I would beg to kindly remind Mr. Vandetti and his friend whose “joke” he repeated (Just Passing By, Jan. 24) that the “gnashing of teeth” is not just “proverbial.”
It is the words of Jesus, which He spoke five times in the Gospel of Matthew, in Chapters 13, 22, 23, and 24.
To quote properly, the “weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth” will be the fate, Jesus said, of those who are cast into “outer darkness” and into the “furnace of fire” because of sin, wickedness, hypocrisy, drunkenness, and not using their talents for God’s glory.
You will see this if you read these chapters.
People nowadays want to think that everyone somehow ends up in Heaven, and ignore and even laugh at the idea of Hell. But the Bible is still true, and each person who dies and faces His Maker, is, I am sure, not laughing about whether he has false teeth or no teeth.
The Bible says God will not be mocked (Galatians 6:7) and implies that He will have the “last laugh” (Psalm 2:4).
It also says that He loves us and “is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (II Peter 3:9).
Signed,
Martha Nighswander
Barwick, Ont.
Fort Frances Times
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