"devoured with burning heat" = consumed/destroyed with fire... I don't care how you look @ it or whether or not you choose to accept it.

The only reason I'm going out my way to REALLY, REALLY explain it is because you said you believe in God and in the Bible. If GOD SAID he would have the people of Israel CONSUMED/DESTROYED WITH FIRE (what people call today -> hell). Then what are you not getting?

In the afterlife which is considered hell/heaven depending on where you go. That's where your punishment/paradise exist. Not what you thinking of as PHYSICALLY any more as you quoted how God said our bodies return to the earth, our souls are not in our graves.

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