Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
…ervation that the worm in this picture “is a devouring worm, and what it eats – in Isaiah’s picture here quoted without amendment – is already dead,”14 Robert Peterson’s retort comes as a surprise: Once more Fudge imposes his annihilationist reading of the Old Testament upon the New Testament texts. Does this sufficiently explain Jesus’ words about the worm’s not dying? Would the worm not die when it had consumed its host? Should not a conditiona…
…l torment? We shall examine, in this article, those and other passages from the Bible in the light of the context of Scripture and through comparing Scripture with Scripture. Be assured, however, that the ultimate and eternal annihilation (destruction) of the wicked is supported abundantly by the Christian Scriptures. Is God’s righteous wrath an end in itself or is God’s righteous wrath a means to an end (that end being the eternal de…
According to Epicureans, anticipating one’s own annihilation ought not to be a frightening experience. Non-existence precludes the possibility of sensation. Consequently annihilation can be neither pleasant nor unpleasant. And that which cannot be felt as either pleasant or unpleasant should not be feared. Certain objectors to the doctines of Conditional Immortalty have suggested that these doctrines undermine the church’s mission an…
Recently Glenn Peoples posted a podcast on his blog that basically consists of the paper he presented at our Association Conference in 2007. The podcast can be found at http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/. The entry that contains the audio clip is entitled Episode 018: Athanasius, Atonement and Annihilation. It was posted on the 5th of October. You can listen online, or right click on the “download” link to download the mp3 fil…
From Glenn Peoples www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/index.php/jonathan-edwards-comes-to-the-aid-of-annihilationism/ What? Jonathan Edwards comes to the aid of annihilationism? Why would I say that? We all know Jonathan Edwards didn’t believe that annihilationism is biblical. Yes, we do all know that, but there are ways to help a view that do not involve showing that it is biblical. The Fate of the Unrighteous (Part II) On a final note, Revelatio…
http://forums.swordsearcher.com/showthread.php?t=1429 A debate on soul sleep http://3-ringbinder.blogspot.com/2010/09/explanation-of-my-controversial-though.html Explains why he believes in conditional immortality I don’t just believe this because it is convenient or makes me feel better. I believe that the Bible does actually teach that the damned will be destroyed, and that the traditional view of eternal torment, as well as universalism (whic…
…erm, and the related term “perish”, occur regularly in our English Bibles, to translate actually quite a few different Hebrew and Greek words for the final fate of the lost. And it is so obvious that “destruction” amounts to annihilation, that James Packer, in Hell Under Fire, even defines Annihilationism as “the belief that those who die apart from saving faith…will be destroyed” (p196)! Well, that’s what the Bible says! Do “destruction”…
…him as just and all-loving, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. And instead of assuring people that they have eternal existence, albeit in hell, I would have told them that the Second Death meant annihilation, and so decision in the present life is essential. Preaching salvation or else eternal torment put more people against Christ than it brought to him.” The following objections to Conditional Immortality ar…
…of endless conscious torment. Many others turn to atheism because of the traditional view. In the January 31, 2013 Bible Answer man broadcast (about the 27:25 mark), Strobel referenced a letter from a believer who asked about annihilationism–the teaching that the unrepentant wicked cease to exist after judgment. He led into Hanegraaff’s remarks by saying, “… It’s just not biblical, Hank! And I’m seeing some evangelicals buy into it, a…
…a clod of earth, a lifeless lump of clay, and is then buried in the earth, where it rots, corrupts, and turns into it; which shows the frailty of man, and may serve to humble his pride, as well as proves that death is not an annihilation even of the body; see (Genesis 3:19) (Job 1:21) ;1 Of course, if by “annihilation” we mean the metaphysical elimination of every smallest constituent part that was a part of something, so that the total amount o…
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