Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
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 [...]
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 [...]
Are Spirits in Prison angels or people? First we look I Peter 3:18 in an accurate and unprejudiced translation: For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit… (RSV). [...]
( This post is taken from the article Did you say sleep? ) Rich Man and Lazarus is not definitive teaching on the intermediate state Conditionalists refuse to accept the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus as definitive teaching on the intermediate state for several reasons, some of which can be seen in the contrast between these texts: [...]
When anyone dares to suggest that sleep is an appropriate way to describe someone’s death, opponents are often quick to respond. They tend to build a wall of evidence, consisting of texts which appear to support some kind of conscious survival after death. Those of us who hold to an unconscious intermediate state have scaled [...]
The Unconscious Intermediate State Sleep is the predominant way that the Bible describes death. That leads conditionalists to assume that death is a period of un-consciousness that everyone will experience until resurrected for judgment. Yet when we assert that assumption, opponent are often quick to build a wall of evidence, consisting of texts which appear [...]
Introduction to the Scaling the Wall series Few people actually take the time to consider arguments for an unconscious intermediate state because as soon as those arguments appear, a wall of contrary evidence is immediately thrown up around them. Numerous passages from Scripture are used, so that readers are assured that an unconscious sleep until [...]
“(God) will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;but for those who are self- seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury” (Romans 2:6-8 ESV). two questions [...]
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten” (Ecclesiastes 9:5 KJV). Ecclesiastes 9:5 has been used as a proof-text by conditionalists from the very beginning of the debate on the afterlife. With texts like [...]
Republished from John Roller’s update #49 see also http://www.johnroller.com/ QUESTION OF THE MONTH Q: The Bible says that it is appointed unto a man once to die and after that the judgment (Hebrews 9:27). Does this mean that Lazarus (John 11:43-44), and the people that came out of the graves at the moment of Jesus’ [...]
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 … [Read More...]
