http://www.christianforums.com/t7636841/ Conditional immortality discussed on the Christian forums
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/02/28/admitting-ignorance/
So what does orthodox theology say about “hell”? To answer this question we might want to ask another question, one that Tony Thiselton raises in his sketch of classic German liberal thinker: If love is a permanent feature of God, and wrath is not a permanent feature of God, then how can hell be eternal?
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8888
God’s judgement, it seems, is one of annihilation. The fire of God’s judgement, like the fire of hell, is a consuming fire. Those upon whom it falls will “disappear from history, as though {they} had never existed.”
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Good. God’s love is eternal. How then can we dare think of God planning the reprobation (eternally conscious) from eternity, even before the creation of man? To counter by saying His ways and thoughts are not ours, in this context, is to forget we are made in the image of God. He is perfect love and justice. Even we in our limited reflection of His image have the sense of justice to reject any notion of eternal conscious punishment. Do we not blaspheme when we express God’s judgement in the traditional way – even if our motive is ‘to scare the hell’ out of people, so that they may be saved?
What you say about matt. 25:46, aion refers to life and punishment, can the latter mean the effect and former mean duration? Mmm not sure it makes sense? Could it refer to a limted time/age? Then the eternal life is limited?
Recent debate on the nature of final punishment on the Unbelievable? radio show:
http://www.premierradio.org.uk/listen/ondemand.aspx?mediaid={71DF5283-40AD-40B4-AF6E-1FEE9B98ACE9}