Tracing the Road to Gehenna : Conference 2012

tracing the road to gehenna

Here is the video from last year’s conference. The  transcript is here:  Tracing the Road to Gehenna We should be videoing this year’s conference on the Saturday 11th May  10:45am to 3pm Beasts and Super-beasts feel the Heat Mark your diaries and send in or email your forms please! note also The Gift of Life Workshop by [...]

The Gift of Life: One Day Workshop 18th May

The Gift of Life

Jefferson and Penny Vann will be visiting New Zealand in May and during that time will be presenting a one-day workshop on conditionalist doctrine on the 18th May. This is open to anyone who is interested in exploring evangelical conditionalism, more details can be found : The Gift of Life Jefferson Vann is a regular [...]

Conditional Immortality Conference Coming May 11th 2013

Doctor David Richmond

2013 CIANZ Conference Saturday 11th May  10:45am to 3pm Location: “The Parnell”,  Quality Hotel Barry Court ,  10-20 Gladstone Rd , Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. Speaker: Dr. David Richmond Topic: Beasts and Super-beasts feel the Heat Will a loving and merciful God condemn millions to suffer torment for all eternity ? Dr. David Richmond is [...]

let my soul live

can the soul die?

Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; And let Your judgments help me. (Psalm 119:175 NKJV). In a long acrostic poem which mostly praises the word of God, an unknown psalmist asks the LORD to keep him alive, so that he can continue praising him, and continue learning from him.  It seems a [...]

the curse of immortality

curse of immortality

One of the earliest texts that we conditionalists turn to for support of our outlandish theories about human mortality is Genesis 3:22.  Some modern translations treat the text as God making a prohibition against human access to the tree of life: “And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of [...]

From Death to Life Issue 56

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The latest issue of our magazine, From Death To Life, Issue 56, MARCH 2013 is available online now. Related posts: Latest Magazine: From Death to Life Archives of the From Death to Life Magazine Magazine Subscription- thank you From the President's Desk Issue 4 1996 From The President's Desk Issue 3 May 1995

A Question For The Bible Answer man: Will You Change Your Mind?

Bible Answerman

The teaching that hell is a place where the unrepentant suffer unending conscious torment is often taught by prominent Bible teachers. Just last month, Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the popular Bible Answer man radio show, had a conversation with Lee Strobel, author of the many books including the excellent bestseller, The Case for Christ. [...]

exchanging this world for heaven

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  A friend recently posted a quote from Dave Hunt, who said: “The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell.  Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world.  Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.” – An Urgent Call [...]

Revelation 22:14,15 & the Fate of the Unrighteous

curse of immortality

Immortality: The Tree of Life in the Apocalypse & Genesis Does the author of Revelation (John of Patmos1 ) conceive of unrighteous humanity suffering eternally (or “to the ages of ages”; cf. 20:102 )?  Does John believe the lost will be rendered immortal?  Those who adhere to the traditional belief of the unending conscious torment of [...]

the stewardship from God

God alone is immortal

The epistles in the New Testament offer readers a picture of the gospel in missions and church context.  We seldom read them that way, choosing rather to pick a verse here, a paragraph there, and try to apply those isolated texts to our personal lives.  That usually works, though, because God’s word does have implications [...]