You quoted the text, “Fear not them that are not able to kill the soul.” But Christ went on to say, “Fear him who can destroy both body and soul.”

Christ meant that we should fear God rather than men. Men have no influence in one’s final judgment, whatever they may do to the body. But God cannot only destroy the body; He can condemn the soul to an eternal existence, which is destruction indeed—the wreckage of all one’s hopes and desires. It is simply a living death forever.

Radio Replies Volume 1 by Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble MSC and Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty