Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
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 [...]
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 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Apologist Dinesh D’Souza spent years studying how the various cultures of the world viewed the afterlife. Among his conclusions was that there was remarkable similarity among the three “Abrahamic” religions. He said “… in all three cases (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) there is an official teaching and an unofficial teaching. … The official teaching is [...]
Jesus died to save people from their sin. That has always been at the heart of the Gospel. But was Jesus mortal, like us? This is a question I’ve seen posed a number of times. On the face of it, the question seems a a bit strange. Jesus had arteries. He had a brain. He [...]
Lots of wonderful posts and the podcast at Rethinking Hell From the blogsphere Immortality Reconsidered What the conditionalist view of hell is not Some thoughts on hell And I really appreciated this post, which addresses the issue that if hell is not eternal conscious torment why bother telling people about Jesus? Christianity is not built [...]
“For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.” James 2:26 ESV James is the apostle from Missouri, because Missouri is the “show me” State.1 James taught that it is not enough just to claim that you have faith in Christ, you need to prove that faith [...]
Bill Mounce, NT Greek Scholar, noted on his blog an increase interest in the words and grammar related to the afterlife. “I have been receiving requests lately about words and grammar that all relate to the issue of annihilationism and potentially universalism. I don’t know if these connections are explicit in the mind of the [...]
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...]
