everlasting fire

Perpetual burning damnation

Everlasting fire is fire that burns eternally, used almost exclusively in religious contexts to describe the torment awaiting the damned in hell: Cast into everlasting fire.

The phrase appears in biblical translations and theological writing.

Outside religious use, it occasionally describes flames that seem impossible to extinguish.

Related

mortal sin · inferno · eternal damnation · eternal torment · second death · geothermal heat · Book of Revelation · burning bush · solar flare · thermodynamic cycle · nuclear fusion · volcanic eruption · perpetual motion · combustion · punishment · eternal flame · Zoroastrianism · Prometheus

Opposites
theological destination

everlasting fireeternal life

Unending conscious existence

heaven · paradise · kingdom of heaven · eternal rest · New Jerusalem

elemental/sensory quality

everlasting fireliving waters

Spiritually sustaining divine flow

living water · still waters · outer darkness

duration/permanence

everlasting firepurgatory

Place of temporary suffering

Family

ever, evermore, every, forever, everlasting, last, lasting, lastly, lasted

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG