eternal torment
Hell's perpetual agony
Eternal torment is unending suffering, typically referring to the punishment of souls in hell according to certain religious traditions.
The phrase appears in theological debates about damnation and in figurative use for any seemingly endless misery: Waiting in that line was eternal torment.
The concept assumes consciousness persists to experience the suffering forever.
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- hellfireEternal punishment by flame
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- UnderworldHades, Tartarus, netherworld, Sheol, Styx
- End Timesapocalypse, Armageddon, rapture, end times, tribulation
- Hellhellfire, brimstone, lake of fire, perdition, damnation
- PrometheusPrometheus, titan, Caucasus, Zeus, chains
- religious dreadholy fear, divine wrath, divine judgment, damnation, hellfire
- Doctrinespredestination, original sin, justification, sanctification, incarnation
eternal tormentheaven
Sky or bliss
paradise · eternal salvation · everlasting life · kingdom of heaven · eternal reward
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